March 22, 2004

• More Strange Dreams

  I spoke too soon. I had another set of dreams in the series. They were rather disjoint and jumbled, so I'll just summarize.

  The folded glossy paper the officer had placed in his mouth before suiciding was a set of instructions for a fantasy mystery game called "Phantom Hand". The instructions and a CD, placed in a pasteboard folder, had been sent or given to many young police who were into the computer gaming scene. This particular game had reached cult status, with two opposing groups forming, the Right Handers or, more simply, Handers, and their opposite number, the Back Handers.

  The Handers had taken to using the powerful artificial intelligence capabilities of the game to set up crime simulations to solve crimes. The Back Handers used the same tools to create crimes that couldn't be solved. Handers tended to be police or other law enforcement people; Back Handers came from gangs and the crime culture.

  I was an outsider who had been unaware of the phenomenon. That is why I was not considered a suspect, the murder and suicide being taken as moves in a cult war. My superiors wanted to see if an attempt would be made to recruit me into one group or the other and by whom, so I was asked to just become familiar with the game and wait for something to happen.

  Now it's shaping up into a nice story!

  Something is developing in my subconscious. From experience, I know I just have to let it simmer. Meanwhile, I'm having some interesting dreams again.

  • 15:44
  • 1 Comment