I finally found some time and inspiration to translate some more dreams after joining Lunar Light forums. This one is a normal dream I had quite a long time ago. Interesting details (no idea where that math part came from). Sorry for the bad formatting.. I used images straight from my dream blog and you can't arrange pictures on one side of the page here so this one looks a bit messy.
Robot dog tyrant
The map
1. The dream begins here
2. The crossing where we meet the grandma
3. The crossing where we meet a big crowd (and get an unfriendly welcome)
4. This is where we draw some triangles on the ground
5. The time gate was supposed to be here
6. The robot dog tyrant
7. The ship crashed and the dog was destroyed here
The route we walked is marked with orange dashed line, the flight is marked with blue continuous line, the path to the time gate is marked with blue dashed line and the end of the flight is marked with orange line.
I'm walking with the rest of our Animorphs group to the playing field of my school - our next mission will take place there. We come to the crossing of the street and a gravel road. Jake, the group leader, does a quick briefing: people here can be hostile so we should be very polite this time. Being careful we start to walk along the gravel road.
A couple of streets join the road on the right hand side. When we come to the first one we see an old lady asking for help. There's no threat so we go and see what's the matter. The grandma tells she needs water. To show we're coming here as friends we decide to help her: one digs a small hole in the ground with his shoe and we fill it with water using magic. The grangma smiles gratefully and thanks us with a weak voice. We go back to the road and notice there's now lots of people at the next crossing. We walk there taking it easy. The people seem to be more suspicious - we greet them but not many people say a word. We then continue walking to the end of the road to a grass field to make a couple of calculations. We will need them to know the location and time of a time gate we are going to use to make a time warp later on. This is how we make them:
1. A right triangle is drawn on the ground.
2. A line is drawn with it's other end located on the longer catethus. The midpoint of that line must be the midpoint of the hypotenuse of the triangle. The line must be the normal of the hypotenuse.
3. Another line is drawn. It must be paraller to the first one. This one begins at the corner of the longer catethus and the hypotenuse.
4. Another line is drawn, starting from the upper end of the first line. This line is paraller to the hypotenuse and ends where it intersects the second line.
5. The area of the trapezium we've created is calculated.
We draw two figures like this: one for the location and another for the time. When we're done we start walking back where we started. The point of view changes and shows the crowd we walked through a moment ago. Someone's whispering: "They didn't look like strangers to me" but someone else demands an attack against us. The attack gains more support and the point of view changes to show what Ax is seeing. He and the rest of us are now where that crowd had been. Nobody's there anymore but we don't pay attention to that. From the corner of is eye Ax sees a chair being swinged at him - then everyting's black. "I was hit by an object with mass of eighteen kilograms. I will fly seventeen meters", he thinks. Then the camera shows our whole group laying on the ground. The first one to wake up is Ax, who cures himself with some natural medicine thing. Suprisingly he gets starts to hang candy canes on a tree. There's even a string going around it already. The aggressive locals are watching trough some bushes and get amazed: "Santa!" they yell and rush to Ax and apologize for their unfriendly behaviour. We get a permission to go to the lake (the field IRL).
First we have to go back to the starting place. There's a medium-sized - bigger than some motor home - space ship waiting for us there. We climb in the cockpit and the engines are started. The ship starts to hover softly. There isn't much room inside and it's dark in there. We start to float towards the lake thinking about the problem we came to solve: we've heard that something is dividing the lake in halves and all the animals stay on the other side. We drive to the left side of the lake on the edge of it and move along it. The time gate should be now straight ahead. Suddenly the first engine fails and the ship lurches. It is restarted instantly. Some girl is controlling the engines - she has ten buttons (one for each engine) and she pushes them with pencils. A really stupid system in my opinion! Just when we are coming to the location of the time gate, the ship turns right. "Whaat?" says at least to people at the same time. "The location is no problem but getting there at the right time isn't so easy", the driver says. Seems like we have to make a circle around the lake and try again. While he's making a turn we spot a huge - almost as big as our ship - metallic dog. It wakes up as we pass it, looking scared but ready to attack - "What the heck was that?"
Nobody knows but without doubt that was the thing that divides the lake. The lake is freezing slowly. The dog growls and starts to run towards us. The driver makes a close dodge and we're safe (the ship is naturally a lot faster than the dog). However the engine manager girl screws it again - this time engine three shuts down and the ship tils heavily. She turns it back on and off again. The bottom of the ship digs in ground and it falls heavily on grass right next to the edge of the lake. After we've stopped we escape trough a door which is now in the ceiling. The dog is getting closer and closer, shaking the ground more and more on every jump. The group leader isn't going to get out in time and he stays to fight the dog. When the dog is really close he attacks and stabs the cross of a rosary through the lower screen of a Nintendo DS attached to the neck of the dog. That dog machine thing falls on the ground dead. We laugh and celebrate - mission complete! Marco spots a small puddle on the ground: the water has changed it's color to gold. There are some pieces of wood there and they seem to bee solid gold now. "Cool", he says: "We should visit here more often!"
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