green rolling hills
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anotheranonHad a beautiful dream last night....
I was in the Scottish highlands (or at least, what I would like them to be - only time I was there I was in cities).
All of the scenery was hyperrealistic: the sky a little too blue, distant objects a little too flat and close, like it was painted by someone with a great eye for color but limited sense of perspective.
The grass on the mountains was so green it practically vibrated! It was moist and tickled my hands when I touched it. So beautiful I felt my heart leap in my sleep at the sight of it :)
I was staying in a very modern cottage type of thing - stone and wood, but it was as if the stones were laser cut to be exactly identical, and the wooden planks of the floor were just a tad too regular to be real.
Behind the cottage was a minimal, futuristic chrome bridge with guard rails that led out to a small outcropping of rock just offshore, on which the ruin of a tower stood. It was so sanitized, to see this irregular shape surrounded by excessively shiny white metal. The water was bright aqua and the white sands of the ocean floor were visible - again, too perfect to be real.
It always blows my mind when I have a dream that involves touch and small details like this - truly hits home the power of the human mind to create it's own realities.
I was in the Scottish highlands (or at least, what I would like them to be - only time I was there I was in cities).
All of the scenery was hyperrealistic: the sky a little too blue, distant objects a little too flat and close, like it was painted by someone with a great eye for color but limited sense of perspective.
The grass on the mountains was so green it practically vibrated! It was moist and tickled my hands when I touched it. So beautiful I felt my heart leap in my sleep at the sight of it :)
I was staying in a very modern cottage type of thing - stone and wood, but it was as if the stones were laser cut to be exactly identical, and the wooden planks of the floor were just a tad too regular to be real.
Behind the cottage was a minimal, futuristic chrome bridge with guard rails that led out to a small outcropping of rock just offshore, on which the ruin of a tower stood. It was so sanitized, to see this irregular shape surrounded by excessively shiny white metal. The water was bright aqua and the white sands of the ocean floor were visible - again, too perfect to be real.
It always blows my mind when I have a dream that involves touch and small details like this - truly hits home the power of the human mind to create it's own realities.
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Re: green rolling hills
Date: 2003-11-06 04:45 am (UTC)The flat background thing kind of made me think of Uccello's Battle of San Romano (http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/giorgio.vasari/uccello/pic7.htm). Uccello was one of the first painters to experiment with perspective, but he never "got" it - notice that everything in the foreground looks 3 dimensional (if a bit like merry-go-round horses), but the background looks flat, like a stage backdrop or something? That's what my dream was like - the background seemed to hit a "wall" somewhere.