Movies and Space Travel

MORNING OF AUGUST 15, 2009

Several of my friends and I (I specifically remember Eric and Richard being there) were preparing to watch a movie, but we were setting up our own little "theater" in some kind of storefront (it looked like perhaps a comic book store). We had my TV and surround sound set up at the front of the store, and I recall trying to arrange chairs and to generally decorate the place in a cool, theater-y motif.

It was almost time for the movie to start and we were in a rush because other people were showing up to watch the movie here, expecting it to start at a certain time. We did start the movie on time, but we weren't quite through preparing the place, so we kept working.

I remember one wall of the store was decorated with "Peanuts" stuff, and another with "Disney" memorabilia, etc. Eric and I at one point were standing in the back of the store discussing the layout and we decided things were finally done. By now we'd missed the first several minutes of the movie, and we didn't really want to join it in progress because we'd never seen it.

The two of us decided to leave the store and we'd watch the movie on our own time later on. We walked down to another "store" and went inside. This place had an interior that looked like the insides of one of the old Apollo spacecraft.

Once Eric and I were inside the spacecraft store, the reality of the dream became that we actually were orbiting in space. There was a huge control panel in the center of the room which we were using to communicate with earth, and it suddenly lost power and stopped working.

We began to panic when we lost communication, but then we remembered our cell phones. We could contact earth with our cell phones! We quickly learned, however, that we were out of range and had no signal. My last memory is just trying to figure out how in the world we were going to get out of this one...