Dream into a Movie and Real life experience

       The dream begins in a train station. It is bright, immaculately clean, a extremely colorful. The station is eerily empty. "I", the viewer, am standing waiting for the train. I do not look like my normal self, but in the context i understand that this is me. I stand in silence, watching the large central clock of the station lobby. suddenly the train rushes in, blowing my hair and clothes around me.
      Once I'm on the train, I can see the world outside the station. It is lush and green, a beautiful view of nature. Out on the horizon, it becomes obvious that this is a different planet. The sky has a golden tint with several moons and planetary rings visibly in the sky.
The train takes me to a golden building, much bigger than the train station. It seems to take up the space of a whole city. A library. Inside there are thousands upon millions of books, more than a person could imagine. It is filled with people and books floating through the air, ladders to high shelves that go hundreds of feet in the air move on their own. There is a small amount of chatter in the air but otherwise it is calmly quiet.
      I know already that this isn't a normal library. I sit down and open the first book in front of me, it has a thick blue green color with gold bands. Immediately after I have opened the cover I am transported into the book. I am the main character, a young girl with twelve foot wings sprouting out of my back. I am a thief in a world where superpowers and mutations exist, and those who have them are persecuted. As the books story and the characters life get dangerously scary, I find myself wanting to leave the book, but I cannot. The worlds within the books have become sentient, and are trapping people within them. I do what I think would happen in the book, changing the plot to my own ideas as I go. The only way I can get out is by completing the plot of the book. I live out this story I am stuck in. Once I have completed the plot, I am thrown out into my own "normal body" again, but it feels wrong. I feel like I am that character now and I can't go back to who I was.

I am outside on a spring afternoon. Birds chirp quietly in the distance, and leaves flutter down gently from the trees. The flowers on all of the trees and bushes have just peaked with blossoms. Fuchsia and golden trumpet tree blossoms paint the concrete in hues of pink and yellow. There are also several flower beds in bloom; they hug the bases of massive aged oak trees and decorate artistic statues.
A gentle breeze flows through my hair. It is cool, but not cold or uncomfortable. The Spanish moss hanging from the old oak tree above me sway delicately in the wind.
All of my surrounding seem to be completely calm. Even the cars that pass by a quiet and almost rhythmic.
This is the kind of place where I could lay out on the grass with all the clovers and flowers and stare up at the sky, making shapes from clouds. I used to do that so much as a kid, but I'm to busy for that kind of imagination anymore.

Virtual Reality Scene

Virtual reality scene script for Ready Player One film

[Scene: Parzival Explores the Tomb of Horrors in search of the Bronze Key]
The scene is dimly lit, with a fiery red tint. The floors are made with stone and the walls are covered with grim paintings and other similar surroundings which are described in the actual DnD play module. The sounds around the rooms are still, with a slight echo that instills an eerie feeling. Each of Parzival's steps echo off the stone floors and walls. The dungeon map and guide book are kept in the bottom right corner of the display, and can be interactively be pulled up to be viewed over the film footage, while pausing the movie.

The action in the scene follows the book's description with Parzival exploring every trap and room carefully. The viewer's range of vision follows what the characters range of vision would be, somewhere around 180 degrees. Even if the character was not looking specifically in that direction, if it is 180 from where there body is facing, it can be within view for the player. If the character were to turn, the field of vision changes slightly with the character's movement without jarring the viewer too much.

As traps are activated, they make hissing or crashing noises depending on the kind of trap involved. Pings and alerts spawn in the center of the viewer's field of vision over the film when items or powerups spawn for Parzival. as he collects money and items, they appear in a separate intractable inventory and wallet that can be pulled up like the map.

[The scene ends as Parzival comes upon the Lich Kings throne room]

What could it mean? Oh bother...

The Writer's Hand in Sight

After having watched the play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, I can say that I find myself along with most others who have seen it, which is to say I am very confused. How do you define the meaning of a play which has so many different meanings running through it? The play is like a ragged old carpet; it has so many loose threads to pull on that will all unravel differently.

But what does the play mean? This question is a hard one to answer, but I have my own idea of the meaning behind it that I have been thinking about for a while. I believe that this play is about minorities and how they are viewed and affected by the majority party. I know it’s kind of a stretch, but hear me out.

The two main characters in this play are a minority in themselves. Within the play Hamlet, they are minor characters with minor action and focus. The purpose of the play we watched in class was to show how not only did the major characters not consider what affected the two or pay much mind when there were consequences, but also that the pair could not escape what had been written for them if they tried. No matter what they do, they can’t escape everything that is happening around them. Even more, they hardly seem to exist outside of the action.

This is ultimately the message that the leader of the performers impresses on the two men. He walks above the casualties and confusion undisturbed. He knows that whatever will happen will happen regardless of his action.