05.30 | Wake up Donnie
I had the weirdest dream last night. Yes, all too boring, I hear you say, but it involved '24', so that's why you're getting the write-up of it.
My dream world is a kinda weird place. Nothing generally happens in the right place - like I'll have a dream about my secondary school friends, but we'll all be sitting in my primary school classroom. Or my work mates will be there, or one of the Spice Girls, or somebody.
They also get punctuated by me waking up and falling asleep again. So halfway through, I'll be woken up by the sound of a car on the road outside, say, and in dream world I'll end up on a motorway, or on the bus, or something. If the alarm goes off and I sleep through it, the dream generally involves whereever I am having the burgular alarm sounding, or a smoke alarm, or something.
So last night I went to bed. I'd watched 'Donnie Darko' on DVD at about 1AM - which isn't the most conducive thing for a good night's sleep.
And the dream was weird. A friend of mine had got her uncle, who lives in the States, to send over a video of the latest episodes of '24' that the BBC hasn't yet broadcast. We began to watch them, but in true dream style, the fantasy and reality elements got a bit blurred. I ended up helping Jack Bauer track down terrorists through a city style landscape that was a bit dark and rainy, a lot like the city in 'The Matrix'.
Of course, in true 'wide awake' style, I've forgotten most of what happened already, but the ending stands clear. In the dream, I'd got an email from somebody about of '24', and how it was set to end. I won't say it here, because it's probably true. Anyway, Jack and me had managed to track down the baddie we were chasing, and I think we were at the BBC, in the front foyer, and we were waiting to see somebody.
We were standing around, waiting for the big final confrontation, and Jack was doing his usual 'Right, I want two teams: Team A should hide behind those mangoes, and Team B can stay here with me, but do some handstands, or something - I'm bored'. So push comes to shove, and the baddie turns up - some woman, I didn't recognise her.
The shocker was that, in true 'Scooby Doo' fashion, Jack pulled the villain's mask off, and it revealed - Nina Myers. She'd been the one plotting to do this dastardly deed all along - and, yes, I know it doesn't make much sense in the way of plot but, hey, I was unconscious at the time, so give me a break, yeah?...
And since the dream was at an end, I woke up. Then staggered around the house in a five-minute haze, thinking "Shit, I've just watched all the episodes of '24', and the writers ended it in that shitty Scooby Doo rip-off way. Bastards". I was quite confused. Then, of course, clarity arrived, and it all became much clearer.
Now I'm looking forward to seeing how the series turns out, because it's bound to be better than the way it'd go according to my unconscious mind...
