I woke up at 8 and yelled at Wax, "I dreamed my childhood neighbors invented a renewable energy source based on shining a special kind of light on poop!"
In this dream,
In this dream,
- My secondary-school bff
guinevere33 was having over both me and my Emergency Backup Best Bud Sara & Sara's BF (the part of whom was played by SIL Windows's affianced bro-in-law, tiny blond computer geek Kim whose name Wax famously forgot this one time). G's mom was trying to prepare her always-spotless house for a visit from her [completely imaginary] Republican Great-Uncle Bernard & G-Aunt Bernice, and being a total asshole about it (which unfairly maligns G's mom's always-gracious hospitality).
- I begged Sara and her BF for a ride home, and they agreed though it was the middle of the night, deciding that we would take the BF's SmartCar, and for some reason, I was going to drive even though I warned them that I was half-asleep. As we pulled out of the driveway, in fact, I couldn't see with my left eye, which I informed them was because that always happened when I was tired. o_O I proceeded to nearly swerve off the road and wreck the car a couple of times on a highly unrealistic trip that included the Interstate and a roped-off construction site, where I scraped up the undercarriage and almost rammed a parked car.
- For some reason it was snowing (it doesn't do that in Alabama - this was proper, Finland-type snow) and the road was slippery, and as I neared my block the slippery slush turned into a solid sheet of slightly-rippled ice. I hopped out of the car and a conveniently passing Adorable Child on a Scooter informed me that the ice had been created by my next-door neighbors for fun. "I'm going to call the police on those fuckers!" I swore, and drove home anyway.
- The back deck of my parents' house was completely lit up by a Coke machine, a pinball machine, a DVD projector and screen, and about 10 sleek gaming PC housings hooked haphazardly to each other. When the three of us climbed up there, my little sister and the two boys from next door were playing video games or something and I noticed that none of the computers were plugged into a power source.
"Shouldn't these be plugged in?" I said.
"No," said Neighbor #1 whose name fr rlz is Clark, "we've got a neverending supply of electricity!"
"Yeah," said his bro Patrick, "we discovered a way to create energy by shining purified light directly on poop!" - I was like, WTF, so my sister whipped out a scientific journal already opened to the appropriate article. The article just noted that a renewable clean energy source had been discovered that produced electricity by shining "purified C0-wave light" (LOL) on human waste and how this could revolutionize blah blah. Then it explained the rate of production (a single toilet isn't quite enough and "8 days' output even from a urinal will power a house for a day").
"So it even ran on pee?" said Wax when I told her this.
"No, see, in the dream I was nodding to myself and thinking how people also poop in urinals, just less often!" I explained.
And then I woke up.