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ihadthisdreamwhere · 6 years ago

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The Town

So I had a CRAZY dream last night but I need to explain the Properties, the Setting, and the Narrative so I'm just gonna split them up.

PROPERTIES:

So the entire dream had a different physics from our own. It had nothing to do with what gravity felt like or sound or color- but instead the entire world was non-Euclidean, specifically it was a hyperbolic plane that freely intersected itself.

So what's a hyperbolic plane? Well, if you take a piece of paper and try to lay it out on a saddle it won't lay perfectly, it'll wrinkle and stuff. You started out with a flat, standard plane of reality (which is like our own) and tried to imitate hyperbolic space (which you couldn't do perfectly.)

Well, imagine if I had started with the saddle paper instead, and it would lay perfectly flat against the saddle but when I tried to lay it on the surface of a table it just wouldn't work. It'd wrinkle and bunch together and form little wrinkles all over the place.

That's just the gist of hyperbolic space but just no that the entire town, or the "world"/outside space was based around this property.

There's also the geometry of the buildings/rooms. So, buildings looked fairly normal outside, but when you stepped into them they got bigger inside and in an odd way.

So, if you've ever heard of a hypercube, or 4-dimensional cube, then you'd know it's a very complicated shape that can't be expressed all at once in 3D terms (out dimension). BUT, I you use a computer program then you can see different "expression" or manifestations of the object as you walked around it and viewed it from different angles.

Furthermore, each room operated like this. You could have one room with 2 doors, and depending on which door you walk through depends on what room it takes you into (fairly normal) but imagine that both rooms were on the same wall only 3 feet apart.

Walking into door A (left door) takes you into a bedroom and to the right of the door is 10 feet of

space with no evidence of the other door or even another room attached. If you walked through door B (the right door) though, you would be taken into a long hallway which stretched to the left and right for about 30 feet, and still no evidence of the other room!

This is a very exaggerated example, but is fairly accurate. Basically, in this hyperbolic 4-dimensional space each room shared and edge with 5 other rooms.

I'm OUR world, if you wanted to make a cube out of cubes you would use 4 cubes next to each other in a 2x2 square with a second layer above it (2x2x2). On one layer, the center would be a single edge shared amongst four cubes.

In this world though, the center edge would be shared amongst SIX cubes... 6! So, try to visualize that... yeah, no picture each cube is a room with different dimensions and different purposes...

And finally, imagine if the room had a pillar, that pillar would sever visual connection with the other side of it, and therefore walking around it would ALSO cause the shift in our view of the higher dimensional form, what I'll call "Lower dimensional perspective shift".

OKAY! If you want more info about that I'll put some links to videos at the end, but for now we're onto SETTING!

SETTING:

The setting was a town, just a town. In it's center was a bigger city, almost like Louisville. It was big but not over developed, not filled with people, and the architecture was olde and less "geometric" if that makes sense? Even though it was a city, I call it a town since it wasn't overly huge in size and everyone knew someone who knew someone else and between any 2 people they would probably know a whole town. (Instead of 6 degrees of separation it was 2.)

So it was a small-ish community. There was also this massive forest-like area that went around the town. It had some pretty high trees and dotted homes and parks, a lake and some rivers. But it was weird...

The land wasn't very flat, it was pretty hilly, and so there were tunnels that went through it and instead of highways we had tunnels but they weren't much faster. Most roads in the forest were dirt or small and went about 30 mph, the tunnel roads went about 45-50. (BTW, the tunnels are like the tunnels you go through on the highway with 3-4 lanes one way and there's two ways to go, very spacious.

Oddly enough the world felt like it was a disk, meaning that there was a "center" but it wasn't the center of the city at all... in fact it wasn't very clear. The "center" was this historic spot where some tunnels met up at an intersection and it was an entrance to the tunnels that just opened up to this old water tower. It also was the basement level to some fancy art and and science museum that had other purposes and stuff.

What's weird though is the forest was both endless and had a boundary... so walking in a straight line would take you nowhere for forever, but walking in a curve would take you to far away very quickly. Plus, what would SEEM like a straight line would end up somehow curving around tot he otherwise of town.

It was hard to notice though since you could only follow the roads mostly, and the tunnels were more akin to how the rooms were set up in the buildings. If you went to the top of the radio tower (whole building) and looked out then it'd look limitless.

NARRATIVE:

I was new to town, I think I was moving there for family or school or something, and so this guy was going to give me a tour. I don't remember much about him other than the fact that he was an older gentleman, maybe 40s or something, and he was intelligent. Not just in terms of some science but also the town and math and art...

Furthermore, everyone was happy... they even had routines! But it wasn't creepy happy or anything, it's like Season 1 of Once Upon a Time except no curse and just genuine happiness... so maybe Gilmore Girls mixed in?

I also knew some of the people there, like my friend Annie Kidwell ( who's SUPER smart btw)and loads more! It was all my smart friends, whether it was art, science, history, whatever.

Anyways, he's taking me on a tour but as we go through he's also telling me stories about the places. There are these small historical plaques dotted around but certain places have these larger ones planted near/on the ground as well as a giant one set up more like a huge sign you'd see next to a statue.

The huge signs were perfectly in shape an obvious next to paths, but the shorter ones were off the path or obscured and not well-kept.

As we walked around he'd go into random stories about people and if I touched one of those lesser kept signs or started to read them then I'd "transport" into the role of someone else from a different time and would see their story.

I don't remember much, but I do remember one involved this black woman coming across a car accident back in a 50s-like era and I remember walking over to see if they were fine, I remember my heels sinking into the mud and being glad they were black but upset they were felt, and this guy came over and o shorten the story he basically convinced me to run head a little bit down the road to try to signal for help since if we were close to the scene by ourselves then it would look like we caused it and we're going to flee.

But the whole story is really her telling it to a court proceeding, and that was a voice over to what was unfolding in the story (me acting as the role of her), but this was all in the past technically...

Confused yet? Also, when we'd leave a "scene" we'd walk back either down an alley-way or a tunnel, maybe just enter a door to a building, and it'd take us back to that museum place but usually entering the sub-level basement which was the historic water tower.

I think the water tower is the center because it seemed like we were always ending up back there! Plus, there was this younger guy (19-22) who would be giving the same speech to a different group of people and I'd only hear a bit of it but when I'd return it'd be the next bit of the speech that should've come next when we first left! Very odd.

I'm pretty sure there was a secret to the town or something cliche'd like that and I was probably supposed to reveal it but hey, I didn't get that far in the dream okay? Lol.

LINKS TO STUFF:

Space!- https://youtu.be/oCK5oGmRtxQ

Flat Hyperbolic Space- https://youtu.be/u6Got0X41pY

3D Hyperbolic Spaces- https://youtu.be/ztsi0CLxmjw

4D Video Game- https://youtu.be/QKCM3-y2UhY

Hyperbolic+4D Room/Building Layout- https://youtu.be/kEB11PQ9Eo8

More Mind Melting via Non-Euclidean Geometry- https://youtu.be/z-Kjl2yFH4U

6 Degrees of Seperation-https://youtu.be/TcxZSmzPw8k

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