Entry dated March 5, 2011
We touchdown on Mars, the voyage not nearly as difficult as I imagined. Not all that different from a few-hour plane ride. Ears barely popped…
Surprised how blue the skies are. Must be artificial atmosphere, like Total Recall. Also may have subconsciously assimilated this review of Cloud Atlas I enjoyed shortly before bed (“Mitchell’s dystopia is repellent and enchanting, grimy and brightly lit”). Highly elevated frisbee-shaped buildings, just like The Jetsons…
I’m college-age in the dream. Settle into dorm-like building with bunch of other college kids. Some sort of study-abroad program. For some reason, the gravity is stronger on Mars, or at least it feels that way. Like the settlers tried to artificially adjust the gravity to be more like Earth’s, but overcompensated. So now it’s hard to walk. Dorm staff offers wheelchairs for those having trouble walking. I have trouble walking but I try to deal with it, and decline a wheelchair…
Notice others who have been here a while and tried to move without wheelchairs; by now they’ve resorted to crawling, slithering- practically oozing like big fat worms. Scares me that I might end up like that, but still I refuse to wheelchair.
Soon realize that the inhabitants aren’t just moving like big fat worms- many of them have gone totally insane. Like the oppressive gravity has somehow warped their minds. Like zombies, but slightly more sentient. I get the feeling these sentient zombies are waiting for me to fall asleep so they can suck my brain and turn me into one of them. I go into my dorm room with my lady Ashley (my real, waking-life girlfriend), who I don’t remember in earlier parts of the dream, but I guess has been here all along. We try to stay awake, watching TV, sitting up in bed, but the intense gravity makes us so tired, it’s extremely hard not to sleep. I fear my humanity is coming to an end…
Suddenly it hits me that this has to be a dream. Lucidity achieved! I tell dream-Ashley, and we decide to levitate. We float through the dormitory halls, just a few feet off the ground, then as we continue to float we also have sex.
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