DT-Side Chat Thread v. The Blu-Ray is out so I changed the friggin' title

[wasteland]

Thanks I must have everything wrapped up 13 days from now, so it will indeed be. I had stressful moments in my studying life (like six exams in one month), but I feel this is going to beat them all. But this could also be the moment I have the chance to rise higher than ever before. I can definitely immedesimate in the lyrical theme behind the songs of DTDT James mentioned.

@Hef: yeah, the beardless is Anàrion. The poor lad who died in the siege of Barad Dur in 3440SA IIRC.

[Onno]

Hey Marco, good luck man! Hang in there.

[hefdaddy42]

Cool, I wasn't sure which was which.

In fairness, I have a beard.

[millahh]

Everyone thinks I look like my avatar...

[Whatsername]

I actually don't look THAT different from my avatar. I have brown hair and blue/green eyes. I would just say Aeris is prettier than I am.

[JoeG]

I don't look anything like my avatar. It just accurately represents my surroundings ~50% of the time  .

[Whatsername]

You're trapped in a clock 50% of the time?

[serrano]

Anything exciting new in the last 24h? I've been at the hospital with my wife, still there.

[?]

Hey Marco, good luck man! Hang in there.

[wasteland]

Thanks, I was feeling really down yesterday, so I called it a day very early, at midnight or just earlier.  But I woke up at 6. I had troubled dreams too. I was to record a bootleg (you may think otherwise, but bootleg dreams are very rare to me, just had them twice with this time) and the batteries of my device were low. So I basically run in the streets of my city (the concert was in a place) in the rain to find a battery. I would always come across semi-dangerous places or shop owned by questionable-looking people. Two of them would try to sell me a thai battery for 5,79€, unless I could find a hidden redeem code in the internet that would have brought the price down to 0,79€.

You see what happens to a stressed mind? By the way, I love being able to remember my dreams in such a detailed fashion when I wake up.

ETA: Yes, I heard part of Enigma Machine in the dream. For the record, it was something like Dream Theater meets 14th century happy music, which is why I realized I must have been dreaming, since even in my sleep I know EM sounds nothing like that.

[?]

Pfft, don't try to fool us... We know you dream about bootlegs every night!

Seriously, I rarely remember anything about my dreams when I wake up. Maybe it's better that way?

[wasteland]

I don't know, but I think it's a good thing to remember them. I haven't been scared by my dreams for years, and I have scary dreams in the early part of my sleep nearly every night. The last really bad dream happened years and years ago, and of course I perfectly remember it.

The good thing is that most of the time they are funny, absurd and would make a good plot for a humorous-surreal short story. The scary ones are even more interesting because make me more aware of my fears in a very visual way, like the driving nightmares. Recently I have been scary-dreaming of an hotel/residence somewhere in northern Italy (the shape of it is a mix between hotels I've been to, something unknown and an estate I used to go every summer until a few years ago). As of today I still have to make sense of what's behind it.

You see, you may discover something you don't know, but it's a ride, and it's always worth it to go along for the ride.

[Sketchy]

I obviously have a moustache and a cute haircut

It would be fun if everyone tried to look like the person in their avatar and posted a pic

everyone else can go first, I'm not gonna be grinning with a lightbulb in my hand

I don't think I'll ever look like a flying teapot, but I am pretty sure I could function as one, or at least contain a lot of tea.

[Onno]

You're trapped in a clock 50% of the time?

He's probably a watchmaker.
yes, reference intended

I obviously have a moustache and a cute haircut

It would be fun if everyone tried to look like the person in their avatar and posted a pic

everyone else can go first, I'm not gonna be grinning with a lightbulb in my hand

I don't think I'll ever look like a flying teapot, but I am pretty sure I could function as one, or at least contain a lot of tea.

For the record, we would like to see either of those.

[wasteland]

You're trapped in a clock 50% of the time?

He's probably a watchmaker.
yes, reference intended

I was thinking a clockwork angel. 

[Onno]

 

[?]

You're trapped in a clock at 6:00 on a Christmas morning?

FTFY

[GentlemanofDread]

Does a siren kick him from a dream?

[JoeG]

You're trapped in a clock 50% of the time?

He's probably a watchmaker.
yes, reference intended

I was thinking a clockwork angel. 

No clocks for me. Just a combination of mechanical engineering student, machining, and robotics hobby work.

[Whatsername]

My mom is reading the novelization of Clockwork Angels. She had no idea it was an album or anything.

[wasteland]

How did she discover the book, then?

[GentlemanofDread]

Whatsername recommended it/Randomly found it in a bookstore amongst the million lesser books around it?

[Whatsername]

Not sure. I know she's into fantasy novels, so maybe she saw the word steampunk and was interested. She might have also thought it was related to A Clockwork Orange (it might be, I have no idea).

[Sketchy]

There's a book version of it?

[Onno]

There's an album version of that book?

[GentlemanofDread]

Gut pains all day. Suffered, took paracetamol and listened to my healing song, Trial of Tears. Been painful.

[Whatsername]

I'm sorry, GoD. That sounds awful.

I left work early because I had a migraine. Couldn't listen to Dream Theater on my commute because sound made it worse.

[wasteland]

Waking up early always upsets me. I can't even type a post straight...

[?]

I've woken up at around 7 AM every morning in the past few days, but yesterday I travelled back to my family and I've been awake for 20 minutes or so now. Fridays are especially awesome for me now because I don't have to go to school on those days

[Whatsername]

Lucky! In a few weeks I'll be in the same boat! Getting up at the crack of dawn Mondays and Tuesdays, and then 8:30 for my other two days of school, and probably noon on the weekends.

[Onno]

Yay, weekend! First thing tomorrow: writing an essay on the formation of the Moon 

[wasteland]

Interesting topic. What's the leading theory nowadays? The giant impact event?

[Shadow Ninja 2.0]

Aliens.

[Whatsername]

A glass moon?

[wasteland]

I can almost hear the young Earth singing after the impact:

"Nervous flashlights steal my dreams... liquid lava silences my screams"