Those wacky entertaining dreams...

[thalia_seawood]

At times, I have immensely entertaining dreams. Last night I had one I'd like to share; it's funny enough to entertain others as well.
My dream was quite obviously inspired by the TV duel between Schroeder and Merkel, both candidates for the position of German chancellor. Credit also goes to reading too many Star Wars related things and to listening to George Bush on TV.


In my dream, George Bush and Hayden Christensen were in a TV duel, competiting for the German chancellorship.

George Bush gave as reason that he wanted to take on the challenge of governing a smaller country to see how it compares to governing the US.

Hayden Christensen said he wanted to make a difference and that he felt his youth and idealism gave him an advantage. Also his mother came from Munich, Obergiesing, so he felt totally connected to Germany. Even in my dream I was surprised by this information.

I was delighted by Hayden applying for the job, because, hey, he might have not a clue about politics, but neither have some politicians. Also he's enthusiastic and good-looking - and wouldn't watching a good-looking chancellor making speeches be refreshing?

Well, the one problem was that the TV reporters started calling Hayden "Anakin". They also brought up that he had turned to the Dark Side in the past and showed pictures of yellow eyed Sith Lord Anakin to prove their point. Hayden tried to explain that this was just a part he had played, but the reporters were kind of wary. Silly reporters.

One thing I really enjoyed about my dream TV duel: The participants had to stand on a ladder and when they scored a point in the discussion they were allowed to climb up one step. This made for entertaining acrobatics. Maybe I should write to the broadcasting companies and suggest they introduce this for the next official TV duel.

Before I woke up my dream shifted a bit and I had the great pleasure to see a musical version of "Empire Strikes Back".

Leia was singing a song of love and woe while standing in the open airlock of the Millenium Falcon next to newly handless Luke. Her song was long and Luke was looking sick while she was singing it. I kind of thought she should have stopped singing and helped Luke inside so he could have gotten medical attention, but I had no say in it.

A neat touch was that Yoda was humming the background choir. Who'd have thought he had it in him.

I woke up laughing, but during breakfast was a bit down when I realized Hayden Christensen isn't up for election after all. *sigh* Well, such is life.

Comments

[reposoir.livejournal.com]

*laughs*

I think that would have been quite an amusing dream. Bush/Hayden all the way, Thalia! ;D

[thalia-seawood.livejournal.com]

Don't write a slash symbol between Bush and Hayden. It stirs up images that should be avoided at all costs. Help! My brain is attacking!!

[stephantom.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha! What an awesomely absurd dream. Oh, man.

And I concur on the Bush/Hayden mental image. Oh dear.

[thalia-seawood.livejournal.com]

I often have dreams that are fantastic/surreal or very funny, but most of often they are too illogical to retell. This one really had a recognizable story.

[rayakina.livejournal.com]

Ha ha ha...! (can't stop laughing) This is absolutely hilarious! And his mother comes from Obergiesing, that is really interesting...! (laughs again) Please share future funny dreams like this! :-D

[thalia-seawood.livejournal.com]

Will do. Most of my dreams are more about exploring fantastic houses or cities and are therefore impossible to describe. If I could draw, I might be able to draw some of the buildings I see in my dreams. Really nice architecture and artwork.

[rayakina.livejournal.com]

Btw, haven't seen this icon of yours before. Like it very much! :-)

[thalia-seawood.livejournal.com]

It's the artwork for a book by Robin Hobb, i.e. part of the Liveship Trader series. The artwork was done by John Howe who also did many of the designs for the LOTR movies.

I uploaded more user pics here (http://www.livejournal.com/allpics.bml?user=thalia_seawood). Some are still not quite done, i.e. I want to add borders and text to the icons I started making.

[rayakina.livejournal.com]

Oh, Louis and Garak :smile: ! And the moon Tarot card...very beautiful. :-D

[anliya.livejournal.com]

Aah! I wish I had weird dreams like that. Random things are so cool. And the Empire Strikes Back musical! Wow, that's some awesome vivid dream you had.

Hayden for German chancellor... now that would be nice. :D

[thalia-seawood.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the musical was fun. When I saw Yoda lurking at the bottom of the ladder leading into the interior of the Falcon, humming the background choir!, I started laughing. That's why I woke up. *g*

And Hayden as chancellor - yeah, I'd definitely like that. *smile*

[juonetar.livejournal.com]

Wow, so much details in a dream! I often see celebrities and movie characters in my dreams, and "the plot" is often most erratical and insane. But sadly my dreams are only seldom rich in description.

I think I have dreamt about Palpatine in politics more than once. I remember I was surprised at how natural and at home he seemed to be in an EU meeting I was dreaming about.

[thalia-seawood.livejournal.com]

Well, my dream life is usually very rich. The problem is that I most of the time loose all the details immediately after waking up or that the story is way too illogical to be retold. So this particular dream was a real gem.

[madame-parker.livejournal.com]

Hi, I just wanted to let you know that I've friended you. It's always nice to find someone who is as much of a fan of Star Wars as me.

[thalia-seawood.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I friended you back.
My mind is still occupied by Star Wars so there's a good chance I'll post some more mini essays over the next couple of months.