Thursday, August 2, 2012

Family Trip to See Devin and the Space Shuttle

I can only remember fragments:

The clearest thing I can remember is that I was leading my family through a what seemed like a cross between Lower Merion High School and Lake Forest College.  I think there might've been one other person, an acquaintance or friend that was also present-- but the memory is mostly blurry now.  We were going to see Devin McIntyre, as he was working on a project involving a space shuttle.  I think we arrive by car, and started walking after we parked at the edge of the "campus".  The layout was different from both LM and LFC, but the aura felt like LM and the buildings were very similar to the ones on LFC middle campus.  It was a bright day with blue skies and clouds, but there was a invisible, foreboding undercurrent flowing throughout the area, like shadow that no one could see.  The buildings were red brick with gray cement, with touches of modernism via windows and structural shape here and there.  As we proceeded into the campus on a cement path by the side of one of these brick buildings, I could see in the distance, somewhat obscured by fog, a space shuttle!  It had all of its boosters and rockets still attached, but instead of a launch pad, it was adjacent to what looked to me like the LFC Library.  The whole vehicle was magnificent, glimmering in small cloud of fog.  The main rocket was red, and the auxiliary rockets where grey.  Even from a distance I could tell that this space shuttle was rendered with great detail in my dream.  I could see the small lines and windows on the white shuttle, and markings on the wings.  My greatest disappointment was that I did not get to go near it at all, although I knew that it was our final destination-- it would also be where we would find Devin.

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We progressed through the campus, walking by the beautiful brick buildings and small fields of grass, until we reach a particular building that we had to pass through to get to the space shuttle.  The building was shorter than the others, at about 4 stories tall, and had long stretches of windows in the middle part where there was a lobby.  Other people, presumably staff or students, milled about or hurried on their way to wherever they were going.  I remember seeing many backpacks and college-aged people.  I announced something to my family (and the one other person in my group) at this point, but I cannot remember clearly what I said-- I think it may have been something like what a tour guide would say.  We continued through the building and exited the other side back into the open air and were closer to the space shuttle than ever before, but the dream ended there.  I remember a short clip of Devin in a lab, surrounded by computers, screens, and cables.  He wore glasses and a white lab coat and talked excitedly about something-- I may have been participating in a video chat with him somehow.

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