Little Big Planet (Nightmare)

This dream is a few days old, so I don't remember much of it. Here's what I do remember:


It was dark and there were storms. I could see these two plastic spheres, sort of flattened to make floors and roofs. They were connected by smaller plastic tubes - like a ferret habitat. There was machinery around, and I saw countless bubbles, most empty, though some filled with objects, like a tricycle.

There was a man working the levers, and he was not a good man. Inside one of the large oblong spherical cages was a naked young girl with blond hair, shivering. They were ripping images from her brain to put into the small bubbles. She was crying, but then she wasn't because they had stripped all her memories from her.

I realized they were harvesting the childhood of children to fill the balls - and that was where all the images in the video game Little Big Planet came from.


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There was a lot of powerful imagery in this dream, and it was vivid enough that I woke up with the realization still in my head. I actually enjoy Little Big Planet, and am still trying to figure out what my subconscious was trying to say, apart from the idea that video games and children should not mix. Maybe I'll keep Daniel away from the console games for a while longer.