Dream Journal #5

20 March—21 March

For some sort of dire grievance, some others and myself were to be banned from our home planet, which, as far as I can tell, was not Earth, although we were all human. We were forced into a very cartoony rocket, where we all stood in the centre, by the one round window, as we were launched. We were supposed to be condemned to die on the "spring moon"—a moon, not far from our home planet, that was labelled with an extremely large pale blue structure in the shape of two intersecting semicircles.

Before we got to the spring moon, however, we came across another celestial body in our path. It was a very small (probably about the size of the rocket) planet made of rocky, deep scarlet stone. I remembered hearing a presentation about this planet (whose name now escapes me), so I decided to take my chances with it rather than the spring moon. Without a space suit—none of us had one, it seemed—I managed to slip out of a wide hatch in the spaceship just as we came to the rocky planet.

As I grappled to keep hold of the rock, I noticed Logan*, the one who had done the presentation I remembered, sitting on top of the planet. Not wearing any special equipment, other than a somewhat casual suit and fedora, he greeted me cheerfully. I reciprocated and mentioned his report on the planet. He nodded and informed me that "the natives—yes, natives—are really nice." This was indeed the first I had heard of any natives on the planet.

While I did not see them at first, after a while of living on the planet, I finally managed to observe the natives. They were tiny (about the height of a finger), standing triceratops creatures that usually lived underground. They weren't very social and never talked to me, but I was okay with that.

Meanwhile, I was trying desperately to get an Internet connection on my laptop, but reception on the planet was terrible. There were several Wi-Fi places to which I could connect, but they didn't work correctly, and the one that I actually received properly kept sending my browser to a bright green website advertising a hotel on my home planet and insisting I sign up for a night or two.

* Logan is one of my lab partners in Chemistry and sits next to me in class. I really feel like he would be the type to energetically do some presentation on a weird, tiny planet. He also likes to sing annoying things, but luckily that didn't crop up in this dream (although I woke up with "You're So Vain" stuck in my head).