Strange Dream

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I dreamed I was part of a team that was being sent to stop a mind control experiment being done by a big artificially intelligent computer at a big computer company.

We were sure the AI had taken over the company and gotten rid of most of the humans who worked there, leaving only security folks to stop people.
The company had taken over much of the media by doing computer generated characters for TV and movies that were very popular. They appeared in many things, getting computer linkages from the AI to all sorts of different companies.

As our assault people used much the same equipment as the security people, we were able to fool our way past the first level of access and get into the building itself.

We had an inside agent who told us if we got to where she was stationed, she could get us the rest of the way to the computer core.
Using some explosives, we blasted our way from the parking lot to her work area.

When we got to the area where she worked, she removed a wall panel and pointed to an oval tube going off into the darkness of the tower.

“This pneumatic tube is the transport system for people getting into the core,” she said. “Even during an attack like now, it is still running. Climb in and the pressure will shoot you right to the core.”

I looked at the tube. I am not a small person, even in my dreams.

“I don’t think I’ll fit,” I said.
“People squish and the pressure is high,” she said. “Once you get in, the pressure will take care of it.”
“I’m not sure I can fit in at all.”
“Get going and the pressure will built until you move.”
“What if I get stuck?”
“The pressure will take care of it.”
“What if I get stuck half way?”
“The pressure will take care of it.”

Despite my worries, I climbed in and a lot of pressure built up behind me and I shot into the dark.
I came out in a big computer room with all sorts of monitors on the walls, floor and ceiling.
“Set the charges,” the leader of our team said.
We set them all over the place and then set them off.
They weren’t normal explosives, but sent an electro-magnetic pulse into the equipment. Most of the lights went off.

One or two of the monitors were still on.

On one of them, one of the more popular AI generated characters appeared. It was not as fully rendered as normal, but still quite recognizable.
“The main core is down,” it said, looking out at the monitor to us. “You security people have to protect this place better.”

I looked over at the leader of our team.
“It’s clearly got backups,” she said.
“We’ve got to find them and take them out too,” I replied.
Dream ends


This weekend my wife and I watched “The Suicide Squad” that has a tower assault on something that mind controls people.

We’ve also been watching the TV show “The Mysterious Benedict Society” that also involves an assault on a tower that mind controls people.
The end of that season was this weekend as well.

So, I guess if I’m going to be watching two different tales of towers with mind control that have to be taken out, I shouldn’t be surprised it shows up in my dreams.