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      A weird sun and a failed attempt to take photos of it

      Hello people, I had this dream a few days ago and it has puzzled me enough to look up an internet forum where someone could help me interpret it
      So here goes:

      I was standing on the side of my town's main road when I noticed how weird to sun looked. It had the form of a red, spinning ring (when I woke up later, I realized it looked exactly like an item from a videogame I used to play. The item is named "Ring of Red Death", but that name didn't appear in the dream and I don't know if it's relevant). It looked nothing like the sun, in fact watching it didn't blind me at all, but I knew it was the sun. It was surrounded by blue clouds, basically piercing them. This weird view didn't scare or alarm me, but I was aware it was an anomaly (the sun is not supposed to look like that!).
      I found it to be an imposing or even solemn view, or at the very least a rare view, so I decided I absolutely needed to take a photo. Incidentally, I was just a few meters away from my home (I do live on that street, the dream matches reality here), so I rushed back home to get my camera. I took the back entrance to my house since it was the shortest path from where I was (this also matches reality).
      I remember getting my camera and two extra lenses, all of which I own in real life and I can recognize after the dream. The camera and lenses I took with me are the ones I use the most to do my real life job, which is videography (although the camera can also take pictures, needless to say).
      After getting my camera, I turned it on and looked up in the menu for the option to leave my name printed on the pictures I take. I couldn't find the option (which doesn't exist in my real life camera), so I moved on.
      To carry the lenses, I decided to put them in a bag (probably the black one I use in real life, but I'm not sure - it didn't feel like an important detail). At that point, I decided that for whatever reason, I needed help carrying the small bag.
      Magically, someone appeared in front of my house's backdoor and offered to carry my bag. His identity didn't feel important and I can't recognize this person, even after the dream.
      I got back to the side of the street where I previously was and noticed that the sun had moved. Maybe it was partially covered by clouds now, I don't remember clearly, but what I remember is that the view wasn't as pretty as it was before.
      I remember thinking something like "damn, I was too slow. Oh well, I should take the picture anyway".
      By the way, the stranger that helped me carry my bag had already become irrelevant by this point.
      I looked through my camera's viewfinder, and noticed that the view looked slightly out of focus, muddy, dirty. Through the viewfinder, the weird sun and the clouds surrounding it didn't look amazing anymore, they looked kinda low resolution, kinda lame. Kinda like the difference between advertisement photo of something vs the real thing: the real thing never looks as good as the advertisement (this has nothing to do with the dream, I'm just trying to explain the difference).
      Noticing this disappointed me, but I was still going to take that photo.
      So I tried to take the photo, but the camera's shutter would get stuck every time I tried to take the photo. I was not able to take the photo no matter how many times I tried, and I was puzzled by it. I knew my camera was in order and I knew I was using an electronic shutter (I knew that in the dream, and it matches reality), so there was no reason for this malfunction to happen.
      I didn't know how to fix the problem, so in a last-ditch attempt I decided to try a different lens on my camera. I put my bag on the ground and looked for the other lens I had with me. As I was switching camera lenses, the dream ended.

      Any thoughts?
      Last edited by boreking; 08-21-2017 at 04:41 AM.

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