I had a vivid dream last night where I was some kind of extra-solar body orbiting a quasar. I think I had intelligence. I wasn’t just a rock. Perhaps I was myself, I don’t know. Who I was wasn’t the vivid part. The vivid part was how the quasar seemed to communicate it’s “anatomy” to me. It told me how its physics worked, and I watched it swirl and spin with my vision apparently filtered so that I could see color and texture. Now I don’t remember what it said, or how it specifically communicated with me. If I had to explain that, aside from the fact that it was a dream and wierd shit happens in dreams all the time, I’d have to say that I don’t comprehend it now because the Quasar didn’t “speak” in words, and my brain can only understand communication in some kind of word/language form (duh).
It looked like a translucent eggshell of swirling plasma, but it glowed white, blue and purple. I have no idea of its size, but I had the impression that the shell of energy/gas was large, like Sol-solar system large. If that was true, then my “orbit” must have been far beyond pluto. It took up only about 1/4 of my vision, but even at that distance, its swirling motion was pretty rapid, almost like the speed of water flowing down a slow drain… or closer to the speed of 2-foot ocean waves breaking on a beach. It didn’t seem to necessarily rotate…. maybe more like how the surface of the sun “rotates” in different sections at different speeds. The whirl-pool style swirling within it’s eggshell structure was it’s most distinguishing feature. That and its colors. It was like milky crystal or opal… and mostly egg-shaped.
The sky around it was scattered lightly with stars. Not many, I assume because we were so far from the rest of the known universe.
It was beautiful, and I felt intense awe…
I want to go back out there… and see it again.
madeinheaven | 29-Feb-04 at 6:48 am | Permalink
I’ve had a couple dreams like that in my life, and yeah, you just don’t want it to end and you feel totally in awe.
rainn9 | 29-Feb-04 at 6:49 am | Permalink
I like your dream…
autarchex | 29-Feb-04 at 7:55 am | Permalink
Hmm. That sounds awesome.
Kinda similar to a book I read half a year ago in which a giant intelligent superweapon is orbiting a neutron star that is itself in a planetary orbit around a dying star. The neutron star is an enormous quantum supercomputer. I was going to write more on how it sounds similar to your dream and all, but on the other hand, you should read the book, and I wouldn’t want to give it all away.
Revelation Space
starladear6 | 29-Feb-04 at 8:17 am | Permalink
That book looks nice. I picked up a few by that author, but wasn’t sure if I’d like him. At the time I also hesitated because he had the same first name as an ex-boyfriend… but yeah. heh.
Hey, well, my birthday’s coming up. *pokes pokes*
oh wait. No it’s not. nm.
starladear6 | 29-Feb-04 at 8:21 am | Permalink
holy shit dani. that’s an extremely hot icon. :)
durandal1707 | 29-Feb-04 at 10:12 am | Permalink
Are you sure that wasn’t that one episode of Star Trek where they come across this intelligent supercomputer that turns out to be the local system’s asteroid belt?
fistfam | 29-Feb-04 at 10:22 am | Permalink
Well sis I had a wierd dream last night too but I wasn’t a space thing. More of an out of body experience type thing. Only odd thing was that it wasn’t my body. I was following around a teen age girl I think anyway it was vague looked like you in a way. Getting on here to tell you good bye for now heading to Iraq in a few days maybe tomorrow. Be gone for a year and will try to get stationed in Washington’s Ft Lewis. Love you and take care of yourself. Want to see a post on here about you enrolling for your senior year. Love you and am thinking about you all the time. Michael Jr
starladear6 | 29-Feb-04 at 12:05 pm | Permalink
In case you see this… I talked to dad. I’m worried/scared/thinking of you… I’m not good at expressing it though… I wish I could.
I love you.
autarchex | 29-Feb-04 at 1:20 pm | Permalink
I haven’t read the others, but based on reviews, Revelation Space is one of his best.
You had a boyfriend named Alastair? Not the most common name, for sure.
Nice try :)
autarchex | 29-Feb-04 at 1:22 pm | Permalink
I am extremely embarassed to admit that your description is not ringing bells in my head.
Which star trek?
durandal1707 | 01-Mar-04 at 9:14 am | Permalink
It wasn’t an asteroid belt, and I think it might not even be Star Trek, but it went something like this: There’s this planet full of warmongering slavers with interstellar travel, and their system has this gigantic cloud of particles around it that is so thick, it blots out the rest of the universe - the planet’s night sky is pitch black. And then it turns out that the gigantic cloud of particles is an AI. Or something.
autarchex | 01-Mar-04 at 9:25 am | Permalink
Hmm. Cool. Pretty sure I never saw that, as I’m sure I’d remember it.