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Nightmare Fuel
Apr. 18th, 2009 08:37 amI'm not doing my insane reverse jetlag any favours at all. After getting up at 4am again yesterday I fell asleep by accident in the middle of the day and had this... ghastly dream about enormous crabs. The viewpoint skipped about as these things often do, but I was first watching and then participating in a documentary about hunting and capturing them (and Paul Merton was on it, standing off to one side and being irrelevant).
We were looking into this... I'm sure it was meant to be a house, but it was long and thin and the floor was at chest height from the outside, more like the back of a lorry. Perhaps a caravan entirely opened up at one end. Somebody twitched a rug aside, revealing a reasonably large spider, which scared me enough, but just at that moment the Dark Lord of the Land of Crabs Himself scuttled out from the back of the room, a white and red Lovecraftian monstrosity at least three feet high, covered in inch-long spikes coming out of its joints, with its eight massive pincers raised to attack.
Naturally this caused me to back off a little as this thing jumped off the lorry/caravan/house and came towards me, but the crab-capturing expert that we had on the programme stepped in to demonstrate that crabs love apples, even flesh-devouring nightmares like the one that had somehow been hiding in front of us. Who knows how this was found out, but it seemed to be true, because he distracted the bundle of spikes and pincers by putting a fresh green apple on the ground, and it scuttled over towards it curiously. What it didn't realize, of course, that there was another apple slightly behind the first one - but this was a trap apple, and as soon as it poked the first apple the fake one behind it ballooned up forwards like an airbag and engulfed it entirely, thus rendering it harmless.
So... for further nightmare fuel, I'd quite like to get some opinions on this video that I put up yesterday. This was something that I saw when I was much younger and then half-thought I'd dreamt because it's just so absolutely out of nowhere. To explain the situation, each series of the schools music programme Music Time was based around some sort of classical music storyline (such as Peter and the Wolf), but this time they sent the presenters INTO SPACE and did a series about the world's first concept album, the recently-recompleted Planets suite by Holst. Each programme was spent around a different planet and exploring its themes, ending with Neptune, which the choir performs at the end of this video. Watch from about 7:00 to the end to get an idea of why this ending was lodged into my memory.
We were looking into this... I'm sure it was meant to be a house, but it was long and thin and the floor was at chest height from the outside, more like the back of a lorry. Perhaps a caravan entirely opened up at one end. Somebody twitched a rug aside, revealing a reasonably large spider, which scared me enough, but just at that moment the Dark Lord of the Land of Crabs Himself scuttled out from the back of the room, a white and red Lovecraftian monstrosity at least three feet high, covered in inch-long spikes coming out of its joints, with its eight massive pincers raised to attack.
Naturally this caused me to back off a little as this thing jumped off the lorry/caravan/house and came towards me, but the crab-capturing expert that we had on the programme stepped in to demonstrate that crabs love apples, even flesh-devouring nightmares like the one that had somehow been hiding in front of us. Who knows how this was found out, but it seemed to be true, because he distracted the bundle of spikes and pincers by putting a fresh green apple on the ground, and it scuttled over towards it curiously. What it didn't realize, of course, that there was another apple slightly behind the first one - but this was a trap apple, and as soon as it poked the first apple the fake one behind it ballooned up forwards like an airbag and engulfed it entirely, thus rendering it harmless.
So... for further nightmare fuel, I'd quite like to get some opinions on this video that I put up yesterday. This was something that I saw when I was much younger and then half-thought I'd dreamt because it's just so absolutely out of nowhere. To explain the situation, each series of the schools music programme Music Time was based around some sort of classical music storyline (such as Peter and the Wolf), but this time they sent the presenters INTO SPACE and did a series about the world's first concept album, the recently-recompleted Planets suite by Holst. Each programme was spent around a different planet and exploring its themes, ending with Neptune, which the choir performs at the end of this video. Watch from about 7:00 to the end to get an idea of why this ending was lodged into my memory.
