Wednesday, August 08, 2007

Matthew is Lost

I was supposed to be watching the TV show "Lost", but it was supposed to be an in-between-seasons episode of some sort. It seemed pretty generic for a while, and then Kate was there in the forest with Jack (two characters from the show) and she had some sort of telephoto lens from a camera or something, and she was using it as a telescope. She wasn't looking at anything in particular, but just looking around.

At one point she was laying flat on her back and looking straight up with it. I was shown her view of things, and everything was really blurry. She started turning the knob that was on the side of the thing to adjust the focus, and different layers of the trees, starting from the closest, came into focus and then went out of focus as she kept adjusting. It was almost like focusing on higher layers of the trees caused the lower layers to move out of the way to allow her to look higher and higher. It was just an optical illusion due to the focusing because I knew that the trees weren't physically moving out of the way. It was almost as if the lens itself was not actually changing it's focus, but extending up through the trees and pushing branches and leaves out of it's way as it went, constantly focusing on things that were about a foot or so in front of it.

When she reached the maximum upward focus of the lens and all she could see was sky and clouds, she started bringing the focus back down. The branches of the trees that moved out of the way previously were coming back, going into focus, and then moving higher and moving out of focus again, as if the lens were retracting back down through the tree branches.

Then at one point there was a dark blur that started to show up. As the view moved farther away, bit became clearer, and it was my brother Matthew's face looking straight down into the lens. His face was expressionless and partially obscured by the leaves of the trees, but for some reason it scared me because I knew it wasn't supposed to be there. I wasn't even sure that it was actually my brother. Somehow I got the sense that it may have been some sort of impersonator trying to make me think it was Matthew when it really wasn't. It was enough to scare me awake.

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