gwax's rumblings

<dream>Last night was a long string of odd dreams. They were all strung together to make one big, even stranger, dream. I can only remem­ber a few of the spe­cific sub­dreams so that’s what you’ll get.

Making nails for MITOC. I was with a bunch of other peo­ple and we were all learn­ing to make nails from found iron as a part of some MIT Outing Club activ­ity. The process was fairly sim­ple: find some pieces of soft iron and start ham­mer­ing them together until they formed one big block. Then you ham­mer the block of iron until you get a big sheet which you cut the nails out of. I was hav­ing some really good luck because I found a few nice pieces of iron in the dirt where we were work­ing. After a lit­tle while it turned out that a few of the pieces of iron that I found were actu­ally plas­tic so I got rid of those and got back to work.

Somewhere along the way the cut­ting nails bit turned into me being a black­smith in the early dark ages but since I’m a Materials Science major by day I knew all sorts of things about steel and metal that the rest of the black­smiths did not know and I was teach­ing them all these things about smelt­ing and alloy­ing and annealing.

Then there were a few other sequences that I forget

Eventually there was another tran­si­tion, but this time it went from black­smithing to scuba div­ing in the Arctic. I don’t remem­ber much of the tran­si­tion except that it involved look­ing at a div­ing mask and read­ing the instruc­tions for chang­ing masks in freez­ing water. So I’m up scuba div­ing with these two other guys and there are ice­bergs around. Then one of the other guys dis­cov­ered this bro­ken out­board motor float­ing in the water which I thought was really neat at the time. Then I dis­cov­ered some ice throne carved into the side of one of the ice­bergs and decided that I needed to put the out­board motor on the throne.

Then, all of the sud­den, I was a Ninja Turtle and I had retrieved some magic tal­is­man from that ice­berg, which gave me all of these spe­cial pow­ers. I dis­tinctly remem­ber being in Shredder’s palace or base or what­ever and taunt­ing him with all the spe­cial pow­ers that I had and he was try­ing to trick me and get the tal­is­man away. I remem­ber a par­tic­u­lar instant where he lunged at me and I dodged and he ended up in the koi pond. When he fell in the koi pond I real­ized that I wasn’t actu­ally a Ninja Turtle, just an actor in a suit play­ing a Ninja Turtle, so I used the care­fully hid­den stones in the koi pond to make it look like I was walk­ing on water (tal­is­man magic) and went out to make fun of him. Then he stole the tal­is­man, and some other stuff happened.

When I went inside to get the tal­is­man back, I stopped at a lit­tle new­stand and bor­rowed a pen to write some­thing down in my notebook.

A few sequences later, I dis­cov­ered that I was tak­ing a break from tend­ing to my fish tank. I then got back to work­ing on my fish tank. There are a lot of small details that I remem­ber about this part, but suf­fice it to say that it was a much larger tank than my real one and I was in the process of con­struct­ing a cas­tle in one of the cor­ners for my fish.</dream>

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