Fighting Spheres

Had an unusual dream the other night. For one thing, my point of view kept shifting – I wasn’t always seeing things in first person view, but sometimes in big picture, like watching a movie.

I was on a spaceship, possibly spherical in shape. We were trying to activate our advanced weapons & defense shields, as an enemy was nearby preparing to fire on us. Then my view point shifted, and I could see what was happening on the enemy ship, as if I were a fly on the wall or looking through a security camera. There was the leader, whose name sometimes sounded like Zakhu and sometimes like Zathura, and two henchmen. They had figured out the code/sequence needed to activate the weapons/shields. The “control” was a big, wall-sized panel of small, rectangular tiles. While mostly silver, part of the control wall depicted a vaguely ancient Egyptian scene. The tiles, including those in the picture, were engraved with numbers and symbols: 2-3 digit number in the center, with a smaller letter centered above that, and an even smaller series of unknown symbols centered along the bottom. The numbers were not in sequence.
What I “knew” in my dream was that this technology was new or alien, and unknown to either side. Three tiles had to pushed or flipped in sequence, and each side had figured out only two of them. As I watched, the enemy force pushed/flipped three tiles; the first one I couldn’t read (but my side knew it), the second one was in the picture area; it read “262” and had either an “R” or an “A” above that. The third, the one my side hadn’t figured out yet, was up in the silver area, had “60” on it, and the letter was either “R” or “A”. My view point shifted again, and I was back on my ship, and trying to explain to my folks where the last tile was and how I knew it – trying to explain that I had some sort of psychic vision or a telepathic event. They didn’t believe me at first.
Then the enemy fired, and my view point shifted again, back to “movie mode”. Now I was looking at both “ships” out in space. Each appeared as a globe, webbed with glowing green lines both horizontally and vertically – in other words, latitude and longitude lines. An energy ball from the enemy globe was headed toward my globe. I watched as hit, kind of sinking into the green web before punching through and coming out the other side. My point of view switched briefly back to my ship’s bridge, where we were all reacting to the explosion, and then went back to movie mode. Apparently my crewmates believed me about the last tile, because now my globe grew an arm, also covered in glowing green webbing, and the “hand” morphed into a net just in time to catch the next energy ball from the enemy globe before it hit and throw that energy ball back at the enemy globe. Think lacrosse. And then…the alarm rang. Oh, well.

It’s interesting to think back on vivid dreams like this, and see what my subconscious had drawn from real life: not only was this dream more like watching a movie or TV show than most dreams, but I can easily see things drawn from Stargate SG-1, Charmed, and The Adept (a book series I’m currently rereading), not to mention Zathura, which is a dvd that I had just bought this past weekend (but haven’t watched yet).