… hey good ol’ Abu, first you tell yours upfront then and maybe I’ll consider posting about mine….

As I wander from hub to hub, I gradually become aware of a feeling of warmth, comfortable yet distracting, a joyous, deep, piercing depression that I had only felt one other time before (when, as a young man, I had been in love).

There is a breeze. I look up to the sky. The clouds racing past, and the rustling grass call to me to run away with them. Become a poet. Never mind about all that; the aspirations to green sheets, to home ownership, to foisting New Economies on the World.

When I awoke, I went to the Civic Center, and did the [drop all] dance until Load: 0/300. Then I converted all but 7 cents of my cash into colored paper and gave it to the first several people I encountered.

Wow, that’s detailed. My GNE dream just involved me sitting at the computer watching text scroll by in the global chat window. I don’t remember what text, just that in the dream I found it kind of tedious :(

But I’m curious as to what people dreaming about GNE imagine the characters to look like. That is, the characters as opposed to the real life people who play them. For example, I know that Selva IRL is not Hispanic but I still imagine kind of a Carmen Miranda figure with the fruit hat and everything. Capodistria resembles Desi Arnaz, Loli looks kind of like Glinda from the Wizard of Oz, and Inspoetica like the Great Oz (a giant green floating head).

Hmmm. As visual as GNE is, I never formed visual impressions of any of the other players. Not even of mine.

Great now when people google “inspoetica” they’re going to get “giant green floating head.”

Like a beer from St. Patricks day.

In my giant green head the following players exist as these images:

Selva Morales = Hispanic Tinkerbell

Capodistria = Joaquin Rodrigo [http://www.joaquin-rodrigo.com/indexen.html]

Loli = Pippi Longstockings

Eglantine = Trinity from the Matrix

yeoz = Great Saiyaman [Dragon BallZ]

Plurp = giant chicken

ABULAFIA: “Jesus!”

INSPOETICA: “What?”

ABU.: “I thought Eglantine was a guy.”

INS.: “Most guys do.”

LOL, I changed my character description from (other) to (male) last week because I heard that Yeoz thought I was a guy …

bah, i’ve already mistaken 3~4 people as being males ;( stupid indeterministic game.

I don’t dream GNE, I wake it. I do form pictures of players in my mind when I interact with them. It gives me a mental ‘file’ to store all the info. However, these images morph as I learn more details. Yogi, St_wart, caterina, Eric, Plurp, and others have more or less solidified, because I have seen pictures of them. But certain others have been more elusive.

inspoetica is a luminescent figure shrouded with mist, that drifts by smelling of wine cork and sandalwood making soft beeps, clicks, and whistles before generating yet another impossible trivia question.

capodistria is tall dark figure on edge of dance floor spotlight, and as I whirl past, I notice that what I thought was a small scar on his lip is actually a little streak of punch from the rim of the cup he is holding, and I pause to wonder if I should tell him about it, or just lick it off.

Selva is dressed in colorful silk with matching slippers, carrying an absinthe bottle in each hand and darting about the party, slipping bottles in people’s pockets.

Yeoz looks like Keanu Reeves in ‘Point Break’, eating cookies.

Tseran has dark hair, a rakish smile, and walks around carrying a 5’ inflatable dragon, saying ‘rarr!’.

kam & oom are mirror identical twins, both with clever eyes & cowlicks, but oom is inexplicably 1/2” taller.

Thurgood Marshall looks like Thurgood from the ‘PJ’s”

kona is white mouse with pink nose and little frilled collar sipping a latte.

Eleanor Rigby looks like gloria steinem in the 60’s.

There are more, but these were the most interesting.

Ah. Here’s a photo you can use to help create a visualization of Abulafia.
(Safe for Work)

http://tinyurl.com/43pi

Loli is uncanny. How did she know I was taller?

Wish I had enough hair uptop for a cowlick these days!

When I dream about GNE (it’s happened more than once now) I visualize a few people that look like friends I know from RL; for the most part everyone else seems to be a conceptualization of tidbits here and there I pick up from GNE, but still fairly obscure. Usually when players pop up in dreams they’re people i’ve never seen before but still feel familiar with. I’d like to see whether the images in my head actually match player faces IRL.

Okay. Had a real strange dream last night, and I didn’t realize that it was GNE related until my domestic dream interpreter enlightened me.

I was breeding really cool plants which generally had two major flower types, one which used the other. For example one plant grew little coins which the other part of the plant used to make leaves out of. There were an array of these. I was using nails as fertilizer (you know, like roofing nails), and at pone point I ate all the leftover nails, and it gave me a stomach ache.

Also, the little plastic bunny that lived nearby ate a bunch of the nails, and got a fever of 300 degrees (that was what the readout on its forehead said, but I confirmed with a thermometer, while the poor, hot little thing squirmed). The plastic bunny was in big trouble, and so was I. Cut to a car chase, then I woke up.

Ok, I have been trying to figure it, I give up. How is that related to GNE???

Oh, you know. Nails, colored eggs. What’s the difference?

hee :)

The best part about it is the bunny.

this is a strange site i dont get it