Woah! This is cool. I hadn’t even heard of this mission till this morning. I might not do ‘news’ but I am subscribed to NASA and JPL on YouTube, but I just haven’t bothered checking out their posts in a while… till I saw the image for this one today.
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I wish I’d seen this earlier so I could have my name on the list going to Europa, but anyway, at least my name should be going to the Moon and Mars still.
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And now for something self-related to destroy this cool post. Haha.
It was a strange sequence of thoughts that led me to discovering this ‘message in a bottle’. When I woke this morning and worked through my morning thoughts, plans for the day and memories of yesterday, a song appeared in my mind and got caught up there. This song triggered the memory of a realistic dream I’d had this very night.
It was a wowser of a dream. I only remember it as a moment. It was a very normal moment for me too. The crazy part was that in that normal moment I recalled a memory of something happening in the past as if it really had happened, but in real life it has not. The memory helped me make a decision in that dream moment. I am not going into the details, but I did end up quickly grabbing my computer and writing down what I could recall. Is it called ‘writing it down’ when I’m really ‘typing it up’?
At first I hadn’t realised the song in my head triggered the dream remembrance. After writing it all down I went to grab my morning coffee and the song returned to my mind. When I get songs in my head like that, I try to recall the lyrics of the bit that repeats and figure out how the song got there in the first place. Then I look at the song lyrics as a whole. I’m a bit of a lyricophile. So here I was making a coffee and singing the song aloud now, when I realised the words I was singing related to the dream. That was when I realised the tune in my head caused me to recall the dream.
I rushed off to find my phone and check out the lyrics (not trusting my memory for some reason even though I knew every word). I played it on spotify first. Then I thought about watching the old video clip for it. I didn’t quite get there, for as I opened YouTube a suggested video on a channel I’m subscribed to got my attention instead. It was related to the dream in a way and my mind was wandering that direction, so I followed my mind and clicked the suggestion. The next suggestion was from another subscribed channel, NASA, for the above first video. I got lost in the wonder of it.
I love working with themes myself, so really loved the way they played with the water theme. I mean, hey, how clever is the idea of ‘sound’ waves as part of the water theme.
So as I drift on into a cloudy Sunday, I share with you a song that continues to swirl around my mind.
Now To Morrow 