Dream distraction
Nov. 26th, 2006 10:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
talarubiLast night I dreamt about little subworlds. There was one peculiar thing about them—they had more "there" there. What I mean is, if you did a quarter turn four times, as measured by a house wall for example, you wound up looking down a fifth hallway. Indeed, outside, the square buildings were five-sided.
Some guy had set them up and was showing people around. It was a subtle thing you tended not to notice for a minute, until you got lost. Also, one of them had a society living there that seemed under threat somehow—unsure whether it was meant to be real or fictional. (Insert lots of colors and details that probably made more sense at the time.)
My geography and chemistry teachers also made reappearances, doing catchy presentations ala Bill Nye on things I can't quite remember.
Ed note: Google says this is called hyperbolic space. And in fact it is very easy to get lost, because instead of having cubic amounts of "here and there" in an increasing radius, it's exponential! I feel sorry for the search teams, don't you?
Unfortunately I knew about that before my dream did. But I love the notion of quaint old houses and school buses and green fields pulling these tricks.
Some guy had set them up and was showing people around. It was a subtle thing you tended not to notice for a minute, until you got lost. Also, one of them had a society living there that seemed under threat somehow—unsure whether it was meant to be real or fictional. (Insert lots of colors and details that probably made more sense at the time.)
My geography and chemistry teachers also made reappearances, doing catchy presentations ala Bill Nye on things I can't quite remember.
Ed note: Google says this is called hyperbolic space. And in fact it is very easy to get lost, because instead of having cubic amounts of "here and there" in an increasing radius, it's exponential! I feel sorry for the search teams, don't you?
Unfortunately I knew about that before my dream did. But I love the notion of quaint old houses and school buses and green fields pulling these tricks.
