FryingMan

00:00 Tuesday 2014-09-02
00:20 pre-bedtime: day memory review, set intention to recall dreams and to be lucid
long time falling asleep, wife comes to bed later keeping me awake.

remee on

05:00? remee goes off in the middle of a dream, I (partially?) wake up, I know exactly what is happening, this is remee, is it still part of the dream or am I totally awake? I wait for the lights to finish, see if I can go back into the dream, can't recall the dream, remee goes off again in a few minutes, I turn it off and go back to sleep

06:41

Airplane/landing/video arcade/restaurant sequence

+ Sitting on an airplane, I suddenly feel several strong gravity-related events, like the plane is plunging down suddenly and I've become weightless due to this. I'm concerned, I think this has happened before on this flight. I see water/land approaching, WHERE'S THE AIRPORT!? It looks like we're going to crash, we're almost on the ground, suddenly a thin runway appears ahead through thick tall trees, the plane must weave several times avoiding the trees, I think the pilot's earning his salary on this landing. (I have the pilot's view for this part). There's an announcement that the runway is very short. An announcement comes on to prepare our things for landing, I'm back in my seat, gather my sandals, I don't really have much else with me. I'm amazed that I haven't gone to the bathroom for the entire trip, or maybe I went once? I take off my seat belt but we're not done taxiing, I put it back on, I think people should not start gathering their stuff yet because we haven't stopped at the gate yet.

At the front of the plane it stopped right up against the end of the runway, that was a close call, how will the plane get off the runway to make way for the next plane? The plane is slightly rocking forwards and backwards a few feet. Walking through the plane I see a seat section through a glass wall, the head rests are strange plastic patterns.

In the (planes?) video arcade: game systems are arranged in rows and columns, about 6 rows of 3-4 systems. There are game console controls and game steering wheels connected to the screen, the steering wheels must be for driving games, I turn one of the wheels to the side and let go, it snaps back strongly to the center position, I imagine there are some really strong springs in there.

I'm sitting in one of the consoles and see some young people come in to the arcade. There are two cute girls, they're sitting down in front of me and I'm checking out their rears. They are slightly fuzzy/out-of-focus for some reason. A guy comes in and comments to me "good time to be in the arcade!" (referencing the cute girls), I sort of acknowledge him as correct, he leaves and goes and puts something into a wall of lockers outside of the arcade, (he's a pilot?), I think I should not have acknowledged him, it might be risky.

Approaching a restaurant, in a large open floor plan like a mall, I approach one table and sit down, I have to sort of climb over the very thick seat cushion that runs around this circular table, there are young women seated across from me and to my left and are already eating. At a table across the room a waitress has brought an immense circular cauldron (1 meter in diameter at least, and about 1-2 feet tall) of some salad dish and is serving it to a person there, I look for and see the tray table that it must have been brought on, nearby. The waitress comes to me and I'm not sure if I should serve myself or let her serve me, I'm undecided for a while then she serves me and I'm not happy with the portion size (too small) and she hasn't given me the "best bits." I imagine this is a fixed-menu lunch and the other dishes will be brought around later. The woman sitting next to me has plate full of other stuff like brown curly pasta and olives and other things.

+ crazy racquetball: I'm in a racquetball court preparing to serve, I look back at my opponent and he's an old guy with a walker. Well that won't be very fun for either of us, how will he possibly play? He starts running after the ball without his walker and I think about shouting out to him to be careful but don't. He serves the ball and he doesn't bounce it first on the ground. His serves go long sometimes. I tell him he must bounce the ball on the ground first when serving. I play several points against him, he gets lucky unreturnable bounces off the back and front walls, at one point I'm running after one shot and my body/legs can't go fast enough and I can't reach it in time.

Now I'm playing against 2 former colleagues (BI from L, one other guy from L), we've been in the court a long time, the lights go out, one colleague unplugs a cord from a power strip on the floor, turns the plug around 180 degrees, and plugs it back in, I think this is "hacking" the light system and the lights come back on. A gym employee briefly looks in through the door at us and leaves, I think he's checking up on us. I see out the high windows on the back wall that CRT computer monitors are sitting there on a high shelf.

We play several points: I'm serving, and they both bunch towards the left side of the court: easy, I think, I move to the left side of the service box and launch a serve aimed towards the right corner, but the serve goes long. At one point they serve, and I call "short! second serve!" and then they serve and hit the side wall first, I call "double fault" (and think it's a triple fault because hitting the side wall is a double fault and they already are on the second serve). I tell them hitting any other wall than the front wall on a serve is a double fault. They ask can you otherwise get the ball to move sideways on the serve? I say hit towards the side of the front wall.

The guys are now on the middle of the floor of the court surrounded by boxes and are assembling Sun Microsystem computer systems. Sun went out of business, I wonder how many of these systems are left. The guys are very fast and efficient at assembly, One of the guys is quickly tearing off paper labels from a sheet of labels. I'm amazed and say so, they say they have lots of practice doing this. They both get close up in my face to say this, one guy right up against me so I can feel his breath, egads, is he going to kiss me?

+ I'm cleaning my tooth (lower front just to the right) with a very thin straight dental pick, I'm picking deep down at the root and scraping the sides. I think that superman can chew rocks if he wants to and not worry about breaking his teeth or his fillings.

+ I see a young man I know to be superman sitting outside a small office in a hallway, he's giving a sort of sales pitch. I know it to be a shake-down: he's warning them that they must properly maintain their typewriters, but he's actually going to break some of the keys on the typewriter if they don't pay him, and the keys will start sticking.