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Two strange dreams last night.
First dream: I was in a used bookstore and saw a book on a shelf that looked like one of those old DAW books - a bit chewed up, yellow spine. I distinctly recall, in the dream, telling![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rachelmanija about it. The cover, however, changed back and forth between two scenes, both from the book. One was in a scientific lab of some sort - super-science, more than regular science - and had a tall, curly-haired man in a labcoat on it, who bore a distinct resemblance to voidampersand, bending over a computer, with a statue of some sort of velociraptor in the background. Then the scene shifted, and the same man was now standing in front of a brown-colored 1970s muscle car, wearing the uniform of a Spanish conquistador.
Then the dream shifted a bit, so instead of looking at the cover of the book, I was sort-of in the movie made from the book, which starred Billie Piper, looking a heck of a lot like her character Rose from Doctor Who. You see, this was sort of an alternate history where the pre-Columbian cultures of the Americas weren't as thoroughly destroyed as they were. It looked a heck of a lot like our world, only with differences like the apartment complex Piper's character lived in was owned by an Aztec prince who sacrificed people who didn't pay their rent on time, instead of evicting them. There was something about her trying to find her father, and people dressed in medieval clothing in a doctor's office passing the time by posing in tableaux vivants, and a duchess in an evening gown and opera-length gloves gardening on yet another cover of the book, and a problem with packages that were sent to the apartment complex containing food being stolen.
And then someone outside in their car turned their radio on loudly and woke me up. I fell back asleep, and...
Second dream: I often have architectural dreams in which I design apartments or houses, but this was the first time in which I designed a mall. I'm not entirely sure who I was in this dream, butvito_excalibur had an architecture studio assignment in which she was supposed to design a shopping mall based on "sustainable architecture," which term my brain kept using instead of "vernacular architecture," which is the real term.
So I took her to a South African shantytown for inspiration, and we looked at a bunch of houses that the residents had built out of corrugated metal, but at some point they shifted over to be more of a sort of mudbrick and a sort of adobe, with interesting roof detail.
And then the dream shifted so that I was the one designing the mall, and I did it as a big one-building structure that looked sort of like a warehouse (the corrugated metal walls, I suppose) with the interesting roof details. The individual shops in the interior were smaller than your typical mall store, and were designated by platforms, rather than walls. And the platforms were movable, with wheels that could be fixed in place once the shop was where it needed to be, and each store was made of several of these platforms - all at one height - and the number of platforms decided the size of the store. Rather then being around the perimeter, with the pedestrian spaces in the middle, the platforms were arranged - each store's platforms at a slightly different height to distinguish it from the other stores - in a sort of pyramid structure in the middle of the space. And at that point my sleeping brain remembered ADA regulations, and decided that each store needed a long ramp to it from the pedestrian space around the perimeter. It all fit together neatly, like a big puzzle. I'd draw it out except that I fear this sort of structure could only exist in dreamspace, but it was a nifty concept.
First dream: I was in a used bookstore and saw a book on a shelf that looked like one of those old DAW books - a bit chewed up, yellow spine. I distinctly recall, in the dream, telling
rachelmanija about it. The cover, however, changed back and forth between two scenes, both from the book. One was in a scientific lab of some sort - super-science, more than regular science - and had a tall, curly-haired man in a labcoat on it, who bore a distinct resemblance to voidampersand, bending over a computer, with a statue of some sort of velociraptor in the background. Then the scene shifted, and the same man was now standing in front of a brown-colored 1970s muscle car, wearing the uniform of a Spanish conquistador.Then the dream shifted a bit, so instead of looking at the cover of the book, I was sort-of in the movie made from the book, which starred Billie Piper, looking a heck of a lot like her character Rose from Doctor Who. You see, this was sort of an alternate history where the pre-Columbian cultures of the Americas weren't as thoroughly destroyed as they were. It looked a heck of a lot like our world, only with differences like the apartment complex Piper's character lived in was owned by an Aztec prince who sacrificed people who didn't pay their rent on time, instead of evicting them. There was something about her trying to find her father, and people dressed in medieval clothing in a doctor's office passing the time by posing in tableaux vivants, and a duchess in an evening gown and opera-length gloves gardening on yet another cover of the book, and a problem with packages that were sent to the apartment complex containing food being stolen.
And then someone outside in their car turned their radio on loudly and woke me up. I fell back asleep, and...
Second dream: I often have architectural dreams in which I design apartments or houses, but this was the first time in which I designed a mall. I'm not entirely sure who I was in this dream, but
vito_excalibur had an architecture studio assignment in which she was supposed to design a shopping mall based on "sustainable architecture," which term my brain kept using instead of "vernacular architecture," which is the real term. So I took her to a South African shantytown for inspiration, and we looked at a bunch of houses that the residents had built out of corrugated metal, but at some point they shifted over to be more of a sort of mudbrick and a sort of adobe, with interesting roof detail.
And then the dream shifted so that I was the one designing the mall, and I did it as a big one-building structure that looked sort of like a warehouse (the corrugated metal walls, I suppose) with the interesting roof details. The individual shops in the interior were smaller than your typical mall store, and were designated by platforms, rather than walls. And the platforms were movable, with wheels that could be fixed in place once the shop was where it needed to be, and each store was made of several of these platforms - all at one height - and the number of platforms decided the size of the store. Rather then being around the perimeter, with the pedestrian spaces in the middle, the platforms were arranged - each store's platforms at a slightly different height to distinguish it from the other stores - in a sort of pyramid structure in the middle of the space. And at that point my sleeping brain remembered ADA regulations, and decided that each store needed a long ramp to it from the pedestrian space around the perimeter. It all fit together neatly, like a big puzzle. I'd draw it out except that I fear this sort of structure could only exist in dreamspace, but it was a nifty concept.