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My mother had roped me into going to a dinner party. I had to go down a bunch of back roads to get there & I was really upset because about having to mingle with all these people I didn’t know. After suffering for awhile I walk around to the back of the house & find they are holding a yard sale at the same time. And, yes, they have an old TV! It’s an early 60s 21” BW console with a safety glass & ebony cabinet. The set is on & showing a snowy picture. I tried to make out the brand name but it was cryptic. I determined that it was foreign. Then there was another set (or perhaps the first one morphed into it) and this one had TWO screens-no, wait-THREE screens! It was arranged into a sort of hearth, and in the dream I had seen this model before but not in operating condition. This one worked. The upper screen was about 5’ off the ground & was about 21” but very short; the screen below it was smaller & the one to the right of that was smaller yet. I think they were all just showing snow. It later came to pass that this wasn’t a TV at all; that the screens were some sort of special material and that real people were inside acting. Somehow the screens made it look like they were on TV. Then it was back to the dinner party, to socialize with folks I didn’t care to be with…
Explanation for the above? My mother called yesterday wanting me to go out New Year’s Eve. The back roads likely came from daydreaming about driving the 8 hours down to Dwight’s parents farm to rescue those TV’s! As for the multiple screens, I was just reading, in an old magazine about a prototype RCA had built (c.1970) with a 25” color screen plus 4 small BW screens. Then I was reading here on the forums the explanation of how modern projection TV screens work. Throw together all that, along with a nice, big bowl of oatmeal just before bedtime, & voila! Another crazy TV dream!
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Bryan
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