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Giant, telepathic cabbages growing in the snow

I recently had a dream. It was a very interesting dream. The first interesting one I’ve had in awhile. My dreams have been really mundane recently. Fairly boring and not memorable at all. AT. ALL. But not this one. This one was really interesting. It was even more interesting when I was dreaming it because I could remember more of it then. Yes. Interesting. Quite interesting it was. Interesting indeed… (Ok, I’ll stop.)

Anyway, my dream involved a giant cabbage. It was growing in a snowy field. Also, it was telepathic. It may have also been telekinetic because I remember it was pounding the floor with something right before I woke up. Now then, why would there be a giant, telepathic cabbage growing in the snow pounding on the floor? Well, obviously it was to warn her son. Duh. I mean, why else would a telepathic, telekinetic cabbage pound on the floor?

Yes. Her son. You see, some unseen, evil villain guy wanted to kill her son, who is not a cabbage but a real boy. So he sent his tentacled eye-monster minion out to dispose of Mrs. Cabbage’s (I don’t know if that was her name, but I shall call her such) son. I don’t know why Little Boy Cabbage was targeted. My dream didn’t go into the backstory. Anyway, the tentacle eye-monster apparently had magical powers of some sort (if you think about it, a magickless tentacled eye-monster wouldn’t make a good minion at all) and was able to whisk the boy into an alternate reality for easy disposal except the eye-monster messed up and lost the kid in a field. Somehow, Mrs. Cabbage found out/knew of this plot and by the power of motherhood, was able to also get herself transported to this alternate reality to warn her son. Except…she ended up as a giant cabbage. Growing in a snowy field. But at least with the powers of telepathy and telekinesis.

Mrs. Cabbage. She has this red, ribbony thing orbiting around her and it fragments in proportion to the amount of awareness the eye-monster has of her son.

So, the last image I really remember is the scene where Mrs. Cabbage is frantically trying to warn her son about the eye-monster coming for him. She’s “shouting” at him and pounding on the floor with…something. I don’t think I ever saw what it was. The eye-monster has just seen Little Boy Cabbage and is rushing toward him. The boy is faintly aware that something is terribly amiss. I don’t think he had very developed powers in this alternate reality. I don’t know if he had any in the other reality either. Anyway, I woke up after that.

What the eye-monster looks like normally.

Also, this particular magical, tentacled eye-monster was a terrible minion. Completely incompetent. Seriously, how do you lose a kid in an empty field when he is in eye shot the whole time??

What the eye-monster looks like when it’s pursuing something. It moves a bit like how the sentinels did in /The Matrix/.

Also, also, in case you were wondering, this wasn’t really a nightmare.  I was incredibly entertained whilst dreaming and was slightly disappointed when I woke up.  I wanted to know how it ended.

Real life superheroes

I write about superpowers a lot and superheros and superpowers go together. So, It has recently come to my attention that there is a real, live superhero in Vancouver. Well, he’s described as a superhero and I kind of disagree with that. I believe superheroes should have superpowers, because they are…super. As far as I can tell, this guy doesn’t have any superpowers. But this guy could probably be considered a hero. At least, he’s a nice guy trying to make a difference in his home town. He may be on par with that Batman guy who visits children’s hospitals to cheer up the kids there. Except that his superhero identity isn’t based on an existing one. So anyway, his superhero name is Thanatos.

Thanatos (image links to photo shoot with a bunch of superheros)

Thanatos goes out once a month, early in the morning, and helps the homeless community in Vancouver. He goes in full costume. He didn’t always. He used to do this just as a normal guy and apparently the homeless he was helping couldn’t remember him. Then it dawned on him that he should make his appearance more memorable. Enter the costume.

Thanatos, the superhero, based his name (and thus costume) on Thanatos, the daemon personification of death in Greek mythology. You may know him from the story of Sisyphus. Sisyphus first cheated death by tricking Thanatos into his own shackles. That must have been a sight to see. How do you trick people into binding themselves? But anyway…

So Thanatos, the superhero, wears predominately black, has a black tie with skulls on it, a black hat, a utility belt, and a green skull mask. It must be an interesting sight to see. I mean, think about it, you’re comfortably drowsing in a corner close to a streetlight in the black of night. And out of the mist, you waken to see a dark, looming figure approach you. He seemingly floats above the mist. Perhaps frightened and wary, you huddle into your corner a bit more. The figure enters into the beam of light cast by the streetlight, and you see a striking, green skull ominously glaring down at you. And then this dark-cloaked, beskulled person hands you a care package and tells you to be well. HOW IS THIS NOT INTERESTING?

I imagine it would look like this…

The fact that this guy decided to base his superhero persona on a minor figure in Greek mythology is interesting. The fact that he based his superhero persona on a figure of death is interesting. He’s not the grim reaper collecting the souls of the homeless on the streets of Vancouver. He’s giving them care packages! He’s trying to help them out! It’s this guy, dressed in black and a green skull, helping people out in the dark! THIS IS INTERESTING.

Anyway, it turns out that the person behind Thanatos is in his 60s. He enjoys what he does and would like to continue doing it for a long time. And when mobility starts being a problem, he says he will be out patrolling the streets in the “Hoveraround of Justice” and with the “Walker of the Free.”

  • This is how I first learned about Thanatos.
  • Here is a pretty interesting interview with Thanatos.
  • Here is Peter Tangen’s site on real life superheroes (the Telegraph article was an excerpt of sorts).