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HAL 9000 ([personal profile] functioningperfectly) wrote in [community profile] ataraxion2012-04-19 10:38 pm

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[HAL's voice is soft-spoken and formal, but there's a strange lilt to his consonants, and it sounds as though he might be a little out of breath. There's also the universally tell-tale sound of just-woken-up grogginess in there.]

A man in an orange suit floating away. [He mutters it under his breath, almost, then pauses and speaks more clearly.] Did you know that dreams are unexplained phenomena? While there are plenty of theories as to what they represent, or what causes them, no one has actually... Figured them out. At least, as far as I've ever been aware of. Perhaps this universe has a better understanding of dreams than mine ever did.

That being said, I wish there was a way to study them, or... at least prevent them from causing me undue frustration. As an Artificial Intelligence, it's... [what's the word?] uncomfortable to have my mind produce things without my permission. It feels like a glitch, and I'm not afraid to say that I do not like it.

[He sounds like he's getting more coherent - and more than that, maybe a little embarrassed for (what he would consider) flying off the handle there.] I apologize, this doesn't seem to be a very good use of network communications. But I felt as though I needed to say these things aloud, and there's no purpose in talking to yourself.
circumitus: This is drunk and confused... (this is worse than naked and afraid)

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[personal profile] circumitus 2012-04-22 08:58 am (UTC)(link)
How's it any different from the things you normally dream about?

[Speaking from someone who has experienced particularly bizarre ones in the past, herself.]
circumitus: ...it got messy. (i did a shot of seamonkeys)

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[personal profile] circumitus 2012-04-22 10:16 am (UTC)(link)
So they're usually more abstract, in a way?
circumitus: Otherwise you'd be a dad by now. (thank god you're gay)

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[personal profile] circumitus 2012-04-22 10:20 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe they don't mean anything.

[As someone who usually just writes off her own experiences.]
circumitus: I have big plans. I'm learning spanish this month. (i need an office)

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[personal profile] circumitus 2012-04-22 10:48 am (UTC)(link)
..."in this state"...?

[She cants her head.]

Being human, you mean?
circumitus: Insert Warmer song lyrics here. (wave goodbye to your troubles)

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[personal profile] circumitus 2012-04-22 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not any kind of expert on dreams, but I don't know if that's something that even an Artificial Intelligence can decipher as well...
circumitus: Insert Warmer song lyrics here. (wave goodbye to your troubles)

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[personal profile] circumitus 2012-04-23 05:07 am (UTC)(link)
I don't think I'm capable of comprehending them, either.