but what is it with me and bears?
Aug. 2nd, 2006 01:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deviI dreamed a cartoon series last night. Well, one episode of it, but I can imagine what the rest of the series would be like based on that one episode.
Every day some children are alone in their house for a couple of hours between getting home from school and their parents getting back from work. And every day, in that window of time, something weird or supernatural or magical happens to them, usually to do with this pixie/trickster character whose role is a bit like The Cat in the Hat. Things are usually almost resolved when the parents get back, but not quite, so that every day they arrive home to find something truly bizarre going on. The adults go to ever more ridiculous lengths to come up with mundane explanations, and never trust the evidence of their eyes.
In the episode I dreamed, the father comes in to find the pixie sitting on a pile of coloured blocks. "Oh, hello, Mr [Familyname]. Phew, the bother I've had with these antibricks," the pixie says casually. "I'll have them out of your way in no time, but you see, we can't take them outside until dandelion time. [This meant twilight.] Of course I'd never have found them if I hadn't had so much help from these brave bears." We follow his pointing finger to see the children, who are piled quite happily on the couch and indeed have all been transformed into small bears. Dad blinks a bit, then gives them a wave and goes into the kitchen to put the kettle on.
I think antibricks were for constructing imaginary buildings.
There was another dream about airships. Sometimes I love my brain.
Every day some children are alone in their house for a couple of hours between getting home from school and their parents getting back from work. And every day, in that window of time, something weird or supernatural or magical happens to them, usually to do with this pixie/trickster character whose role is a bit like The Cat in the Hat. Things are usually almost resolved when the parents get back, but not quite, so that every day they arrive home to find something truly bizarre going on. The adults go to ever more ridiculous lengths to come up with mundane explanations, and never trust the evidence of their eyes.
In the episode I dreamed, the father comes in to find the pixie sitting on a pile of coloured blocks. "Oh, hello, Mr [Familyname]. Phew, the bother I've had with these antibricks," the pixie says casually. "I'll have them out of your way in no time, but you see, we can't take them outside until dandelion time. [This meant twilight.] Of course I'd never have found them if I hadn't had so much help from these brave bears." We follow his pointing finger to see the children, who are piled quite happily on the couch and indeed have all been transformed into small bears. Dad blinks a bit, then gives them a wave and goes into the kitchen to put the kettle on.
I think antibricks were for constructing imaginary buildings.
There was another dream about airships. Sometimes I love my brain.
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Date: 2006-08-02 12:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-02 01:46 pm (UTC)(My mind insists on filling in "Voodoo Anti-bricks". I blame Monkey Island !)
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Date: 2006-08-02 01:47 pm (UTC)(Is my subconscious committing unconscious plagiarism?)
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Date: 2006-08-02 01:49 pm (UTC)It's very funny...
...but maybe you had to be there.
A Civil Engineer Writes...
Date: 2006-08-02 02:55 pm (UTC)Antibricks are for constructing the spaces between buildings.
It's a very important job; you have only to look at neighbourhoods where they ran out and ended up building terraces of houses back-to-back, to realise that pixies with antibricks are a vital part of the urban environment.
In these days of steel and concrete, proper antibricks are all too often replaced by anticonctrete. This is why concrete buildings are always separated by such dismal public spaces.
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Date: 2006-08-02 03:00 pm (UTC)Re: A Civil Engineer Writes...
Date: 2006-08-02 03:51 pm (UTC)Re: A Civil Engineer Writes...
Date: 2006-08-02 04:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-03 09:10 am (UTC)