sometime in 1999 . . .
mindsnakes
in a scene which seemed like it was in a movie, a spaceship came into view over the craterous surface of a planet. it emitted a pillar of light that touched the ground, then the ship warped away.
while walking along a street, a friend of mine was explaining to me how he could control peoples' minds using
mindsnakes.
I was familiar with mindsnakes; they seemed to be a normal part of life, in fact. I saw no evidence that they ever hurt anyone, but I knew that they were somehow not good.
my friend then used one on someone. it shot from his head, about 4" thick, wet, twisted, and multi-colored. it moved so fast that I couldn't get a good look at it.
it struck the top of someone else's head, then retracted just as fast as it had emerged. the entire motion took less than a second.
my friend and I were later in a restaurant, and he used a mindsnake on a security guard, getting us free dinner. I felt guilty, and wanted to pay for the food.
I saw a sequence of television clips portraying mindsnake encounters--In one, a movie preview, a woman was tasting some mayonnaise. after being hit by a
brain worm (a trendy term for the them, to make the movie more appealing, I think), she poured a large bowl, ate it all, and became very sick.
outside on the alien landscape seen earlier, the ship landed and people emerged. they walked around among the craters. giant mindsnakes shot from these holes in different places.
I was indoors, watching a baby who was sitting on a bed. the baby wanted to climb into a soft drink bottle. I thought that was silly, but was surprised to see it actually got inside somehow. from inside the bottle, it finished the drink.
I left the room. another very young, very small baby was with me. I carried it piggyback. it was able to talk, and was very intelligent.
back outside, everyone had now exited the ship, and people were moving toward a large castle. inside, everything looked like sharp computer graphics. there were tapestries, spiraling staircases, and elevators. giant rotating swords hovered in the air along some walls, point down.
there were many strange people running though the central hall, some evil, along with rats and a few monsters. if one of the monsters caught you, you 'switched partners.' I dodged through the crowd, carefully avoiding the monsters so I could keep my partner (the baby I carried).
I found a small metal object on the ground. when I held it a certain way, it stretched out very quickly into a smooth snake about 5 feet long, which twisted in knots then retracted, sort of like a mindsnake.
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