XPost: alt.dreams   
   From: christian@revelations.org   
      
   In a recent dream the Pfizer blimp flew across an orange sky!   
      
      
   On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 08:39:44 -0500, "Dick Silk"   
    wrote:   
      
   >Was on a zeppelin, of all things!  *Big* one, too.  Was being given a guided   
   >tour, but felt like both the tour guide as well as the guided :-)  I suspect   
   >I was more of the "observer" -- watching the actions of the other two like   
   >an omniscient fly-on-the-wall.   
   >   
   >There was a small conning tower of sorts on the top that made for an   
   >interesting difference between this zeppelin and other zeppelins in the   
   >past.  It had a spectacular view, of course, but I didn't look out to notice   
   >as the height was something of a minor fear factor.  IRL, I would have   
   >looked everywhere!  There were steps (I assume?) leading down the outside of   
   >the balloon down to the gondola beneath.   
   >   
   >Inside, there was a lightbulb (lit) in a lamp which the guided person   
   >unscrewed and examined with a puzzled look:  "Electric?"  as if "where is   
   >the electricity coming from?" and also "why isn't it a gas lamp?"  The   
   >unspoken answer was that a gas lamp was far too dangerous, which led to the   
   >tour guide leading the scene to an area of the side chambers that was a wall   
   >of filters that could allow air to pass through them.  These filters were   
   >NOT mounted flat-wise like you would put in your heat/ac air-return system.   
   >They were mounted thin-wise, as one would line up albums (or CDs for you   
   >younger cats) along the wall.  The boxes of filters were cross-stacked, so   
   >that one box would be flat (like albums in a single stack on the floor) and   
   >the other box would be lined up like albums *along* the floor.  This yielded   
   >a checker-board appearance to the wall.   
   >   
   >There was some small discussion running around about heat / cooling   
   >convection currents & air-temperature differentials, as if the electricity   
   >were being harnessed from the very interaction / static charges of the air   
   >itself, so that once the zeppelin was in motion, production of electricity   
   >was automatically generated simply by moving through the air.  This   
   >electricity provided the power for all the ship's luxury services.   
   >   
   >Thinking of the Hindenburg incident led to the introduction of a disaster   
   >scene wherein the zeppelin burst into flames, but unlike the Hindenburg,   
   >this gondola did not burn up with it.  Rather, the zeppelin was detached and   
   >the gondola landed in the water like a boat and made it to shore.  This part   
   >of the dream might have been unduly influenced by my semi-conscious mind   
   >starting to take over and control the dream, so I'm crossposting this as a   
   >lucid dream in the sense that my mind started making suggestions to improve   
   >things along the way.   
   >   
   >The burning zeppelin disappeared almost immediately, as a burnt cinder,   
   >leaving the gondola (now a boat) portion undamaged.  The concept that   
   >someone was trying to sabotage the boat cropped up, and an offensive   
   >military stance was to be adopted.  "I" suggested putting some old, cut-up   
   >(enormous) tractor tires around the front end to act as bumpers, which was   
   >immediately integrated into the dream, and the ship could then run into   
   >anything without damaging the internal components / structure of the ship.   
   >   
   >That's about all I can remember on this one.  Lots of other smaller dreams   
   >are starting to filter back into memory, but I'll put them in other posts.   
   >   
      
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