Classic SF Dream

[charlesnaismith]

 My dream this morning was a surprisingly tight narrative story:

 

Classic son of previously in power family still enjoys some wealth and privilege. We see that all the privileged people live in huge, old homes with art deco interiors, and wear classic double breasted suits, or dresses from the same era.

Flashback to protagonist being shown secrets by father that are accessible from many of the upper class houses. A rope lowers and you can be pulled to a cold area with view of a black void surrounding the outside of the house and a view of the houses from the outside - streamlined futuristic vessels tesselated together into a giant impermeable cone . If other people know about this no one talks about it.

The protagonist (P) sees a dissident being taken away by security forces. The weapons used are T-shaped hammers propelled by compressed air, possibly with wire so they can be pulled back and fired again. They also have tiny tanks that push crowds around with big brooms.

He spends time outside and you can see the green grasses, the clouds, the blue sky, and the gentle upward curve of the ground in the distance.

A member of the ruling trio is attacked and maybe killed, which precipitates a small riot/mob. P sees this and looks into what the dissident was looking into.

P's friend from a similar background is taken away for unspecified crimes. P takes the opportunity to stay at the friends family home and snoops into what the friend was doing. Sees that the friend cleverly covered the face of someone else on his computer with another photo, P uncovers this and now knows who a key member of the ruling cabal is and what they are hiding.

Before P can expose the ruling cabal's secrets, while outside, the ground shakes. The individual vessels separate and everyone is sucked into whichever vessel they are standing on or left outside to die. P manages to make it into the vessel under the grass, and from there somehow to the interior of one of the upper class houses.

Later on, we see the vessel he is in, rising out of the water and quickly floating along the flat surface of a large body of water. Nearby on the shore we see ruined walls and buildings, as well as trees and plants but no animals or people. The buildings must have inhabited relatively recently (50-100 years) because you can still see some graffiti spray painted on the sides.

 

Then I woke up.