Tag: rambling

Dream Journal August 12th 2018

Wow first distinct rememberable dream in a while.. It felt like a dream I’ve had before, though maybe with some new details. of course I’ve already forgotten some parts but here are some key part;

A group of kids (me being one of the kids) are trapped in this weird place. Like it’s like a factory, or a mall (railings and double levels), it’s very modern and metal, but no windows to the outside, it feels like we’re very deep in it, like it’s a dungeon catacomb of modern factorial metal that just goes on forever, and the only way to get from one floor to another is through an elevator zip tunnel thing.

Each level is almost always empty save for a few human-like androids that run their own village-like shops in the malls, and feels somewhat ordinary, but each level as they try to ascend out through the elevator, each level this air of crazy or “something’s not right” keeps getting stronger. Like there’s an all-powerful AI or force or something that’s controlling the factory, trying to keep us kids from leaving. It does not want us to leave even if it means at the cost of our sanity/lives.

Part of the way up we pick up another kid (a girl/woman? it wasn’t very clear for age tbh in the dream) from a level that’s particularly full of android-people, though outside of the higher numbers it didn’t seem that strange or sinister.

At one point nearer the end of the dream, a voice (like basic mall lady announcer voice) says that the elevator will be blasted with a controlled electric shock (the panic from the group seemed to imply it was not one that someone could just shrug off if we allowed ourselves to get shock), and the elevator starts collapsing/crushing itself, from the lower levels upwards to us. We all run into our own mechas (yeah idk where the mechas came from looking back at the dream, it almost made it seem like they had always been in this elevator despite the fact I doubt they were capable of being piloted into the floors/levels outside the elevator) using the mechs as a way to flee up the elevator faster, and protect us from the electric shock/wave that was going to come. Unfortunately for the girl/woman we picked up the way up this adventure her mech despite it’s auto-movements, could not escape as the elevator trapped it and started to crush it with the rest of the elevator’s lower levels. The girl/woman wasn’t in the mech but she was the only one now exposed in the elevator.

From there the dream cuts off so we don’t know if she got picked up by the other kids/mechas or if she tried to flee from the falling elevator or if she ends up getting crush, but the dream pans to a memory of the girl/woman which we the other kids/children don’t see  (basically it was like a scenic flashback thing);

BTW WARNING FROM HERE THE DREAM GETS A BIT DARKER AND WE SEE WHAT’S BEHIND THAT “these floors are a lil crazy” FEELING WE GOT BEFORE. PSYCHOLOGICAL AND GOREYISH

The girl/woman was the only human on that level which we had originally found her, and she had been there for some time. In her first time on that level, the androids were in a insanity-induced frenzy; in a riotful mass they were running through this level going crazy as only a tiny tiny few (one may have been the “Village Floor Leader”) were trying to calm the masses. Some were just in a panic while others were in murderous run. The girl in this flashback gets buried/overwhelmed by the waves of frenzied androids, getting hurt herself and being utterly scarred mentally and physically from this entire wild spectacle. The androids despite being androids with metal interiors, could feel pain and bleed red blood, some of the ones going mad were screaming how much in pain they were as they bled as they thrashed and crashed into other androids and the girl.

I don’t think the girl wanted to be trapped down there, nor did she want to have that as her last of her memories as the elevator was collapsing up.

I’M SO UPSET THAT SO FEW PEOPLE I KNOW (outside of tumblr, which I thank you nerds for spreading the word which lead to it hitting my end of the grapevine~) ARE EXCITED ABOUT THE NITROGEN FIXING SNOT CORN.

ITS BOTANICALLY FASCINATING AND HORTICULTURALLY HUGE!!!!

I agree with Sarah Taber’s point on how this landrace of corn won’t likely become that big in short-summer temperate regions like the northly parts of North America (4 months is often cutting it close in our canadian region when it comes to growing corn), however there are some definite things it could change that would be huge;

  • other tropical farms; as it is now many of them are growing modern day commercial corn, which in the long-run is not as productive as it is in the temperate regions due to the heavy nutrient/fertilizer requirements. They could possibly afford to grow the slower nitrogen fixing corn in exchange for the potentially larger yield when it comes to their longer growing season.
  • it could still change temperate farms, just not as majorly; the snot corn landrace is too slow for such farms and will probably always be too slow, however an intermediate form (so more aerial roots than modern corn, but less than the snot corn) might still be beneficial, though, it will still take time/experiments to truly confirm.

Another point I’ve just realized is that corn may still be a fertilizer hog (as in, it may still deplete the soil in the long run, as with modern corn)

even with the nitrogen fixing bacteria, it’s just that it’d make it less of a fertilizer hog. Other agricultural methods may still have to be used or improved upon (crop rotation, green manure, unfortunately fertilizer too just hopefully less so). We also don’t know what factors are required for the mucus (and bacteria) that make it appear or not appear; as it only is produced some times of the year, the question is why? What environmental/developmental factors are in play to make it have mucus some times of the year and not at other times of the year?

IM STILL UPSET NO ONE IN MY AGRICULTURAL FAMILY IS EXCITED ABOUT THIS AMAZING SCIENCE MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!  I haven’t felt such an excited science rush since my younger days of reading about the rediscovery of corn’s wild ancestor the tesonite.

Berkheya purpurea is a plant I keep getting drawn to (especially since I know a seed vendor for them) with how unusual they’d be for a northern garden (a south african native that can grow up to zone 5!), but I keep getting apprehensive as all hell;

It’s known to be  trouble-free grower but is it an aggressive plant?

Is it’s thistle foliage form really make it worth it? Would people still buy one knowing of it’s spiny as all hell nature?

AND THE FACT SOME ARTICLES REFER TO IT AS A THISTLE IS NOT HELPING!!!!

I really need to find a system to make ti easier to upload/share stuff here, or import it from twitter (if that can even be DONE at all) =3= it’s currently too much work to manually do it and there’re some good pics I took that may get better appreciated here.

There’s something about how social disabilities cripple the ability to do Basic Business Contact that then leads to a lvl of extreme helpless overdependence towards others that makes me so frustrated and angry. I’d rather not have other people as a crutch for something that I need to be able to do myself if I’m going to be doing ANY kind of business long term.

It’s like I go from Okayish Functional Human Being to Clamped Up Child In a Bubble.