Finished watching Blood-C (a rather messed up anime but imho exceptionally well made) last night, then had a weird dream which seemed unrelated.
At some point in the dream I was aware of being in 3 places at once. On one hand I was at the summerhouse and worried that I had left the cat alone throughout the weekend. On the other hand I was at home right next to the cat. Thirdly, I was at someplace foreign.
I had joined a group of friends to a meeting at someone else's place. One of them had brought along a guy who was into ancient technology. He took out a couple of plates and placed them on the table. He then explained the sequence of how it was used. The gray / silver plate was to be put on the table first, and then a red / ruby plate on top. The red plate would start spinning slowly. After a bit, the red plate would be taken off and put back. After that, the red plate would start spinning faster and faster, until eventually it would supposedly lift off the base plate and do something good / which makes people feel good. He said it had been really difficult to locate this thing. I think my sister was also there, she touched the red plate, placed it on the gray plate, the red plate started spinning, she took the red plate off and it dropped to the floor. The plate did not break, for I think it was more metallic than ceramic.
For me the whole demonstration and how casually the guy handled these things raised a few alarm bells and I wanted to check if the plates were radioactive. Somehow in that dream my phone had a Geiger counter app (doesn't make any sense now that I think about it) but I wasn't sure whether it measured actual values or just showed random numbers. Also, my phone crashed on my attempts. Anyway, got it working eventually and confirmed my suspicions that these plates really should not be handled without proper care, and definitely not brought to a random friends get-together where most of them wouldn't even know the dangers. I tried to locate the guy who had brought the plates but he was missing. I felt uneasy about me and others having been so close to the plates and that they were still there on the table. After a bit, I called the emergency line and told them about the situation. Soon a group of people showed up to take a look at these plates. While they were supposed to have been professionals, one of them touched one of the plates without any protection. Another one from that group told him not to, and then pointed his Geiger counter at it. I could not hear any clicks, nor did I get to see the display. So, I asked him how much it was, and he casually said that it should definitely be handled with care but to me it seemed that he wasn't overly worried about the radiation exposure.
Anyway, the people were evacuated and the group of guys (specialists?) left for a moment. In the meantime the guy who had brought the plates returned. He looked much younger. While I tried to tell him to take the plates before the group has returned (if he cares about the plates), he just ignored me and went back up there. The group followed him right after. I thought I followed the people who were evacuated but lost my way. I took some stairs up to some place and found that it looked like a dead-end. As I looked around, I saw the guy with the plates climbing a ladder which took him higher.
Sometime later a girl came and told / showed me something more about the guy with the plates. She told me that he had trained properly to handle these things. I saw a clip of the guy trying to exercise while shivering in pain. He had lost his eyes which had burned into charcoal. Even more weird, she told me that my aunt had liked the guy. I was shown a clip with aunt's voice in the background, and the guy and a dog in the foreground, in a shallow stream. I thought I recognized the dog but as I looked closer, I realized that I did not. The dog looked like a reincarnation of a sad girl.
All in all, a very weird dream. On one hand it shows to me that I have changed - the old me would have just observed the situation and would not have tested the plates nor called the emergency line. However, I'm not entirely convinced that it was a good idea to do so, for I may have overreacted and stirred up more trouble than necessary. Especially with the rational thinking in a dream where things are not supposed to be making any sense.
