Well, I definitely chalked up another weird dream last night. It was a cross-over dream that involved Terminator and Planet of the Apes. In the dream gorillas had taken over the world and ruled humanity with an iron fist.
At a distant point in the past a human brain had been grafted onto a gorilla brain, resulting in a being with human like intelligence and no ethical or moral sense, which allowed it's ruthless rise to power. The graft was done with the brain of a woman who was an expert in gorillas, who was developing the process, and then was killed and so her brain was used for the experimental surgery.
As a time traveling assassin my goal was to travel back in time and kill her and insure that her brain was destroyed in the process. Given that the original event had occurred in the distant past the fear was that, rather than solving the problem in the future (the rise of the apes), it was in fact the triggering event - that the conspirators in the future, rather than preventing the future were about to cause it. The key to my success was to be not that I killed the woman, but rather that insured her brain was destroyed and the graft did not take place.
I have no idea how it turned out. The dream ended while we were discussing the ramifications of the actions being plotted and the possibility that we were the cause of the very future we sought to prevent. All in all, it was an interesting dream - a cross between Terminator and Rise of the Planet of the Apes.
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