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+date: Tue May 10 2022 21:27:58 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
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+title: A dream I had (2013)
+previous_teaser: People who get the absolute maximum sugar that the establishment allows and then act like you're weird for not doing that to yourself
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+Let me tell you about a dream I had.
+In this dream, I had come into possession of a new multifunction wristwatch.
+The main concern of this dream was to explore the features of this watch.
+
+The first feature was a climate control system that supported heating and cooling.
+The cooling was implemented as a fan that stuck out of the side of the watch.
+There were buttons that let you turn the cooling on and off and adjust the fan speed.
+There was also a feature (as a separate button) that let the watch set a random fan speed every second or so, so that you wouldn't get used to the blowing on your wrist.
+Which yeah, that's about as much as it accomplished: putting a breeze on your wrist, which I found uncomfortable.
+Maybe it would have felt better if it were hotter in the dream.
+
+On the opposite side of the watch, there was a completely separate fan for heating.
+This fan had a heating element behind it.
+Neither the fan speed nor the heating element were adjustable, but you could still adjust the overall heating by moving the heating element toward and away from the fan.
+The heating felt quite nice on a low setting, but I was afraid that the element would overheat or something, since it would still be running at full blast, just with reduced ventilation from the fan, so I turned it off.
+
+The next feature was on the back of the watch, so you had to take it off to access it.
+On the back of the watch was a yellow spiraly texture.
+This texture was created by a sheet of fabric that was artfully packed into a clear compartment under the watch.
+It was like, not folded, but scrunched up as if someone had pinched the center of the sheet and started twisting it until the sheet became a spiraly disk.
+To get the sheet out, you would pull it out through a small hole.
+I did pull it out without too much trouble, but I had no idea how I would get it back in.
+Anyway, the purpose of this sheet was to serve as either a tablecloth or a picnic blanket and nothing else.
+It was there so that you could always be ready for a picnic.
+But now its purpose had been defeated when I irreversibly removed it from the compartment while not at an actual picnic.
+The sheet was definitely big enough, and it had a nice thick, heavy feeling to it.
+I was surprised that it came out of such a small compartment.
+
+I finally arrived at the timekeeping portion of the watch.
+It was the analog kind, with hands.
+At first, it seem strange and crooked, and it was showing the wrong time.
+I couldn't figure out how to set the time.
+I found out that the time was actually correct, but the face (or whatever you call that part behind the hands with the numbers on it) was also a compass.
+So you would have to turn yourself to face north if you actually wanted to check which numbers the hands were pointing to.
+I'm a noob at analog clocks, so I would have to do this every time.
+I lined up the north on the face with a notch on the housing of the watch, and it turned out that the time was correct after all.
+
+The last thing about the watch was that it was tethered by a pair of thin, uninsulated wires to a huge panel, about the size of a suitcase, which was obviously not portable.
+The panel had a variety of switches on it.
+You were supposed to use these switches to configure some settings of the watch one time and then disconnect it by irreversibly ripping off the thin wires.
+The panel would then become useless.
+Before I looked at the settings available on the panel, I was fiddling with the two connecting wires, trying to get them not to be shorted.
+I accidentally broke the wires in this process, so I was not able to configure the watch at all.
+
+I hated that watch.