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geri_chan ([personal profile] geri_chan) wrote2017-12-15 10:26 pm

Maybe I've been watching too many crime shows...

I watch a lot of crime procedurals, maybe too many judging by the weird dream I had the other night. The FBI (or maybe the police, but I feel like it was the FBI) were investigating a cult, and the lead agent looked like Hill Harper. Which is maybe not so surprising since I was just watching him on The Good Doctor recently, and he has played a CSI on CSI:NY and an FBI agent on Limitless. Anyway, the alleged cult appeared on the surface to be a hippie-dippy type group that seemed to preach enlightenment through meditation or something like that, but obviously Hill Harper thought they were covering up something sinister (although I don't know what the sinister thing was). Agent Harper and his team were in the cult's headquarters, and they entered a big room where everyone was sitting on the floor meditating. On the other end of the room was a door that was supposed to open up to some magical Shangri-La type paradise--maybe some fantasy/SF got mixed up in my crime show dream?

Anyway, Agent Harper was just about to open the door when suddenly the damn phone rang and woke me up! To add insult to injury it was (probably) a telemarketing call. (Unknown, out-of-state number, did not leave a message. We get so many survey/marketing/scam calls despite being on the Do Not Call list we never pick up the phone unless we know who's calling.) Of course after that I could not go back to sleep, and I just laid there in bed thinking, "NOW I'LL NEVER KNOW WHAT WAS BEHIND THE DOOR!"

The whole dream kind of had the feel of a Criminal Minds episode which is a little weird since I stopped watching it after Thomas Gibson got kicked off the show. I feel like I should write the dream up into a fic or something, except I have no idea what my subconscious was going to put on the other side of the door. Well, in the dream I felt like it really was a portal to another world that was not a paradise but something sinister and scary but other than that, I have no clue.