Nice dream

Evenin', Mayor,

I had a cool dream last night. As some of you know, I've been practicing Lucid Dreaming. "A lucid dream is a dream in which the person is fully aware that they are dreaming while the dream is in progress. In a lucid dream, it is often possible to exert conscious control over the dream characters and environment, as well as to perform otherwise physically impossible feats." Says Wikipedia. It's tricky business... I've only succeeded a few times becoming fully lucid. But practice makes perfect. I can regularly get to the point where I can control my dreams, but I do not realize that I am dreaming.

This particular dream pitted me in some kind of military, super-secret mission. Me and two other fairly normal looking people were to jump out of a C-130 cargo plane and somehow infiltrate the enemy's base. The 'enemy' was a creepy hick with a farm. Somehow I got the feeling it was one of these Texas Chainsaw Massacre hick figure. Hiding weapons of mass destruction, I guess. Anyway the whole significance behind it was less important then just jumping out of a plane, which was exhilarating. It was strange, I heard this recorded message being played, the most direct, non-fluffy directions I've ever heard: "DO NOT HESITATE TO JUMP, OR YOU WILL DIE. IF YOU EAT YOUR EXIT ROPE, YOU WILL DIE INSTANTLY. PULL YOUR PARACHUTE AT 1,000 FEET ABOVE GROUND OR YOU WILL DIE." I've also been reading a book called "Feel the Fear and do it Anyway". So in any other dream, I might have woken myself up at the prospect of a C-130 door opening up for me to jump out of at 20,000 feet, but this was different because I was feeling the fear... but doing it anyway. *coy look*

At this point, I asked the other two people with me "Why are we wearing no protective gear? We're going to freeze at this altitude!" But you tend to forget about these things in dreams, so we just jumped in our normal day clothes. The (all be it fake) sensation of being in pure free-fall now makes me want to go skydiving. I passed through clouds, the wind blinding my eyes and roaring in my ears while I could clearly see the farm I was supposed to land at. My buddies popped their parachutes but i decided to see how low I could go, and when I realized I was getting too low, I pulled the ripcord. I started to float down, but I realized there was a big problem, because there were loads of power lines right below me. And as dreams have a way of getting you out of tight situations, I managed to maneuver myself between them, avoiding their harsh electric spanking.

I came down into a field and I could see the crazy farmer, a dark silhouette running around the place. Fearful that he'd seen me, I stowed my RED AND WHITE (thanks, dream-military for the camo parachute and great intel about our drop zone...) parachute in some bushes and crouched down, waiting for an opportunity to do whatever it was that I was going to do. Yet, the crazy farmer had seen me, and he was not really a person, but more of a shadow... a 2D black void of nothingness, coming closer and closer to me. He obviously knew I was there... Try as I might, I could not get away from him and my cover was blown. Coming closer and closer, he was upon me!-

And then I woke up. The 5 famous words of dreamers all over. It might have been a good idea to figure out what he actually wanted... Usually menacing characters in dreams turn out to be your deepest fears, or simple worries; easy to work out in your dream and for an all positive effect in your waking life.

In other news, my backup, 300GB harddrive has DIED! No life from this puppy. GD Mikal, a good friend of mine and part time computer technician is going to take a look at it, to see if it's a hard crash or a soft crash. Gd-it. This means no more Arrested Development and I won't be able to finish that movie I started watching, "The Fountain". Remember to buy a backup hard drive that doesn't die after 6 months.

Sleep well, and dream lots.

Love,
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