Dreamtime.

I know I just made a post last night, but since that one was short and rather bland, I figured I'd give it another go today.

Last night, I had a pretty freaky dream.  There was a planet-wide epidemic where people were being turned into a sort of adrenaline zombie.  They were hyped up on this sort of drug which caused them to lose all sanity and just try to get as much adrenaline pumping through their system as possible.  I was on a team of people that were tasked to end this situation.  We found a guy that was tearing through a park and we cornered him.  After managing to subdue him, we recovered some of the drug that he had on him.  The drug was in the form of a small moist towelette that you wipe just under your eyes.  The chemical would soak through the skin, turn your irises white and go straight for the brain causing the change.  One of my team members, a girl that I was apparently close to, stated that we needed to watch the changes from beginning to end to find out how to deal with them.  So, she took the drug before and of us could stop her.  After the shock wore off, we managed to restrain her and watch as it took effect.

From there, the dream shifted to me being with someone else, and we were watching a concert.  Whether it was on TV, or the computer, or live, I couldn't tell.  But she and I were watching this concert of a band that I enjoyed and she never really cared for, but I could tell that she was having a good time.




Unfortunately, there is where I woke up.  Nothing else to report right now.  Probably gonna take a nap to conserve energy for work later.

Nostalgia

Tonight, I want to talk about nostalgia.  We all have something that takes us back to a time in our life where everything just seemed... fine.  Nothing was wrong.  They were better days.  And now we wish we could regain that feeling.  A lot lately, I've been flashing back to my past.  Songs take me back, smells, books, movies...  Each of the items I'm gonna discuss take me to a certain point in my life, a set of events that I honestly shouldn't remember because there was nothing remarkable about it, but for some reason, it just sticks out.

"Mr. Mister - Broken Wings"

This song always takes me back to one particular night.  I don't know why, but my mom and I had just left Roses, which back in the day was just a notch higher than K-Mart.  Mom had bought me a new Transformer toy, one of the Insecticons, Shrapnel.  And across the street from that Roses was an apartment complex that a friend of the family lived in, so we drove over there.  That song played on the radio on the drive over, so now, every time I hear that song, I always flash back to that memory.  I was probably about 6 or 7, so don't ask why I remember that.

"Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend" (Album)

Back in the days of cassettes, when you stopped listening to something, it stayed at that point unless you changed it by rewinding or fast forwarding.  This particular album was always being played as I read the Apprentice Adept series by Piers Anthony.  So now, whenever I hear a song from that album, I flash back and remember parts of the series that I wouldn't otherwise think of.

"Lunar: Eternal Blue OST"

This, as well as a few others (Coolio's Gangsta's Paradise), defined my early days on the internet.  The game had just released on Sega CD and America Online was one of the only ways to get onto the web.  This was back when having a computer that could play an MP3 was rare. WAV files were all the rage, but having a full song was an insane thought.  It wasn't until I upgraded from a 66mhz computer that I could actually play an MP3 file.  But this soundtrack was one of the first that I managed to get thanks to a website (probably on Angelfire or Geocities) that allowed downloads of the music.  So, as I was chilling in AOL chat rooms and such, this was the soundtrack of those times.

I had intended for this post to be longer and more detailed, but I'm sick, it's getting late and I can't think of anything else right now.  Maybe there will be an addendum to this post later.