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[sigerson]

Fandom seems to be contagious.
I've dreamed about Lost twice now, despite never seeing the show--never even seeing a commercial for it. I've heard bits and pieces here and there, which are apparently enough to kindle my subconscious.


Dominic Monaghan made no cameos.
Alec Guinness did.

First one involved a house instead of an island--vast and Gormenghast-like. And there were no exits. I had a way out, but it was one that would only take me, so I stayed behind for a while to try and figure out what was going on.

Last night's dream mingled Lost, Millenium, Narnia, and a tiny hint of Willy Wonka. (No Johnny Depp or Everlasting Gobstoppers, sadly.) The island was designed as a test to find the next person capable of creating the island. Ah, circularity. There was a large train (cavernous inside, like the biggest commuter train in existence, at least three stories tall), a broken 1940s airplane, and a lamppost. There were three groups--one escaped by train to some just reward, one by plane to some horrid punishment, and the third stayed behind, filled with inertia and doubt.

I have no answers. But it was a wonderful dream, even when scary.


Maybe after a few more nights I'll have an entire season of a completely different show!

Comments

[firaela.livejournal.com]

oh my goodness, someone else has read Gormenghast besides me and my father!! He told me how fabulous they were, so in deference to him, I read the first one. And I pretty much hated it, I have to confess. He told me afterwards that he'd read them like 30 years ago and didn't really remember them, he just remembered the image of the castle itself looming over everything. I guess that's fair, I have that image too, but it didn't make me like the book.

[sigerson.livejournal.com]

Yeah--It's a beautiful setting but reading it was like trying to break a hole in a cinderblock wall using only my head. The castle is fantastic and iconic. But I just couldn't care about the characters!