23rd
Trapped in the Machine: I had a dream last night… I found my way into the machine works of the enclosed city (it was like Arthur C. Clarke’s Diaspar and the underground city in THX 1138 but the works were in a sorry state of disrepair) and I promptly lost my way. I followed narrow passage ways with locked or blocked doors and saw the immense and dirty works of the city. Elevators moving and plumbing gurgling, pneumatics hissing for the city they fed somewhere above. I came across automatons and cyborgs maintaining the systems that were aged and fouling, rusty and filthy with grime. I found a few straggling half-crazed souls wandering about trying also to escape. A pair of them said they knew the way I described that I came in through but needed me to lead them to it… I saw a man covered head to toe in soot and grime as he had crawled through unknown passages following a device he carried which detected cold air movement. I followed him as he barely noticed me, or ignored me as he must have done with a thousand others he had passed on his way… We crawled up through a rusted out ceiling and saw an immense chamber, thousands of feet high but promising of a way to the surface. I awoke as I climbed up further and remarkably was back in my bedroom. Strange but true. I have great Sci-Fi dreams!! A photo collage of sorts for FGR and “I Wake Up Screaming” group. All the photos are mine except the tunnel, the watch gear works, the hydraulic lift and parts of a steam engine which I used without permissin from the internet. That’s okay as I don’t plan on making money from this photo. Though I should start writing Sci-Fi novels!
