Thursday, June 3, 2010

Machine Singing

I don't remember much of the dream... yet there was a certain part that I will never forget. It was much like the matrix... I was hunting down a rogue program using a device that looked like a touch-screen phone.
The program was hiding by shrinking its form down and mingling with other pint-size programs within the material fabrics of this 'matrix'. With the device I was able to see it moving in a seemingly random pattern trying to avoid detection... It appeared as a very small pixelly figure with a mohawk on the device.
I tracked it for a bit and then reached down with my fingers and caught it. It tried to bite my hand several times... and kept morphing into different shapes, trying to get away... I reached down with my other hand and began to 'decompile' it by pulling its various features off and saving the pieces...
I then returned to an area where two women were waiting... I tried to give them the mass of the program which had returned to source material... saying something like... "Use this to make a new sentient machine." I then felt a severe pain as it enveloped my hand and wouldn't let go... the women also pushed their hands into this 'blob' of a program... the pain made us sing out in strained voices... the voices had multiple tones, as if they were auto-tuned.
The two women and I began hurriedly walking to some destination that I was not aware of... I then realized that the pain we felt was the pain of the machine... it was deeply frightened... it was also ashamed of the wrongdoings it had done before being decompiled... I exclaimed this and began singing in an auto-tuned voice to try and comfort it.
It was the most beautiful song I had ever heard... and it was ME singing it... I caressed the machine which now felt like a baby dolphin... I heard it cry out in a young dolphin's voice... distressed.
I began singing in a very complex melody... (we had then arrived in a room that looked like a laboratory with many people in it...) several people looked up in surprise at hearing it. I then awakened from the dream.