The dream starts with me being in an apartment complex. I'm standing next to a window while several of my friends are studying for something. In retrospect, I suppose it could have been a dorm room. Apparently I had already finished studying and was itching to play some tennis. I think there was a tennis court within view. My friend, Sean Darragh, said that he would go play a game with me, but we should go play at his house on his planet.
I don't remember the means of commute, but in no time at all we were there. The first thing I notice about this planet is that its dark. It isn't pitch black, rather it has a slight purple glow around the horizon. The sky more directly above me has a fantastic view of other cosmic bodies such as other moons and planets. Another distinctive thing about this plant was its openness. It was very barren and open. In fact, Sean's house may have been the only thing on the planet.
Kind of similar except there was no water or trees.
Upon arrival Sean tells me that during this season his planet is in constant twilight. He was happy to boast that his planet was actually in the Guiness Book of World Records for the longest night. Which by our standards was a couple months. He explains to me that their sun actually rotates around their planet because it is a very small sun in comparison.
Although we went to his planet to play tennis, we soon begin playing some sort of basketball-ish game. Here's the skinny on the game: We were indoors and the ground is actually made of a a soft, bouncy padding. The ball we were playing with was a slightly deflated soccer ball which I think we tried to bounce on occasion. We were trying to throw this ball into a traditional basketball rim with a backboard. One trick of the game was that there are clear pieces of plastic draped down somewhat in front of the rim. These can block your shot if you shoot to high. After we played for a little bit, Sean's mom stops in and says hello and we decide to go in his house.
Their house was quite large and unique. In fact, the entire second floor of their house was a Verizon store. Sean's mother explained to me that the monthly rent that Verizon pays them is enough to cover most of their mortgage. She said that they are able to pay the remaining mortgage amount in cash. Right about then Sean's step father walks in the door from work.
It must have been past closing time because nobody was working when they were showing me the store.
The Darraghs tell me that he is working on a very important project at work. Essentially they are trying to make gold out of iron. They had a break through where the thin sheet of iron had accepted some sort of gold seeding but they still needed to figure out how to define the crystal structure in order to make it real usable gold.
He had brought home the sheet and there was some sort of real time touchscreen interface where you could manipulate the crystal structure. While Sean's step dad was talking, Sean was taking a crack at the crystal structure. He moved some things here and there and in no time I watched the sheet of iron turn from gray to gold. Everyone was awestruck and Sean had a "well that was easy" look on his face.
Synthesized gold?
However, upon analysis of the sheet they found that it wasn't real gold. As it turns out, Sean had turned the sheet of iron into Pyrite or "fools gold," but there was a silver lining. A whole new market had popped up on his planet. My dream ended with me watching a commercial advertising bricks of the fools gold. It was with a bunch of ghetto black dudes trying to sell the fake gold to impress your friends.
Classy.
-Seth
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