directorscut
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Last night's dream went all the way back to primary school for me (although I think my dream self was a bit older). It was school trip day and I didn't want to go because a) my bike was a bit shoddy, b) I left my money at home and wanted to buy a mineral first and c) according to the pamphlet we were going to see the bloody Avengers (the new one). So I waited around school with the rest of the class until our teacher came over to me, who happened to be James Cameron, which might have be a tip off for the rest of my dream. I tried to weasel my way out of things but he looked over my bike and said it was fine. Then I tried to get some money off him so I could buy a mineral at the local shop and he wouldn't give me any the stingy git. Funnily enough we didn't need our bikes because we went on bus. All the way there I just listened to my mp3 player, which I'm convinced was funneling through the music I actually listening to while sleeping. When we arrived it was a fair and the first thing we saw a sort of WWI playground bunker where we could fire mortars, take incoming messages via old style radio boxes, and even parachute off the bunker. This forced when you entered a certain section that I didn't know about and I had to cut the rope from the parachute that was moving towards the edge because there's no way I doing that. There was even a typewriter than you could type down the incoming messages, which seemed really cool. Any after a while I was around the place and found out this wasn't the only place in the fair. Doors were mischievously hidden in the walls, no doubt to preserve the illusion of this being real and when I opened the door I realized it was just one part of a massive construct. Outside there was a bar section (natch this is still Ireland) that some of the older kids from different schools were trying to get into. But more interestingly there were zones based on different things like a 2001 zone, a Matrix zone, a Mario zone, a Sonic zone and loads more that are a bit indistinct now. All these zones had a fairly esoteric challenge to them that if you won you got a prize. Some of these challenges were very Portal like. I won quite a few prizes but then a judge came in and said I did one wrong and took away a Studio Ghibli artbook that I coveted. Bastard. One cool part of these zones was that you could take an object and by just hitting it against another one, create different object. For example a a Yoda toy mixed with a toy crocodile and it became a different type of reptile toy thing.. hit a marshmallow against a toy block and it became a bigger marshmallow, hit that marshmallow against a toy walkie-talkie and you get a marshmallow walkie-talkie. Anyway the day was over and we had to leave but my school bus left without me. So Jackie Chan style I jumped onto the side of another school's bus and rode all the way back to Dublin. There, walking home I realised the world itself was a pixelated zone. Pretty cool dream.
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