12/03/04
Brass Brainless

Apparently I was watching CSI on TV, though it was almost more like I was a passive observer in it at first, rather than a viewer. Capt. Jim Brass was sitting in what might have been some kind of rollercoaster car sitting stationary (and maybe separate from the rest of the ride, if it was from a rollercoaster?), talking to someone who stood outside it--Grissom, maybe? This is very vague but I'm guessing that the car suddenly lurched and started moving rapidly, and at some point Brass was flung out of the car and toward a tall white wall which stood at some distance off to the other side. It looked like...just a wall, plopped there from who knows where, maybe not even connected to anything else. Brass went flying through the air right at it and BAM!--hit it headfirst!

I gasped in horror, now seeming to be watching this on TV. I mean, Brass hit this thing RIGHT with the top of his head--BAM! Then something really weird and hard to explain happened. It's like Brass kept hitting his head over and over again against this wall, but not on purpose. He kept rising into the air as if he were being picked up and moved about by some gigantic, invisible hand, and the top of his head rubbed all over this wall in zigzag motions, then BAM, struck it again, a few more times. Zig-zag, zig-zag, BAM, over and over, more zigzagging than hitting but you get the picture. Strangely, the only mental image I can give for comparison is of a person holding aloft an ink dobber for a game of bingo. They take it and bam its spongy head against the bingo card to stamp a spot, lift it, then bam it again. And you don't do this for bingo, but if you wanted to, you could use a bingo dobber much like a pen or paintbrush and rub its head back and forth along the card in a zigzag if you wanted to. Well...that's exactly what was happening with Brass's head! He first hit the wall hard once, then fell, then was lifted back up into the air by something invisible, the top of his head zigzagged all across this wall, leaving these weird colored smudges all around behind it, then banged against the wall a few more times and continued zigzagging. The colored smears he was leaving behind were of course supposed to be blood, yet they seemed to be more pale purplish-pink, almost thistle colored, than anything else.

Nevertheless I found this absolutely horrifying. Poor Brass!! I remember watching him zigzag across the wall and I wondered if he would leave just a zigzag line or if he'd fill in an entire area, and as soon as I wondered that, he zipped back from leaving a solitary line and started to in fact fill in a larger area around where he'd first hit, so there was this great pinkish stain. Then bam-bam-bam. I clapped a hand to my mouth and let out a cry. "Oh no!! He's DEFINITELY going to die!" I cried, and my eyes welled up with tears. At that moment I had a dream memory (not from real life) of having seen a commercial advertisement for this episode and yes, they had said that one of the characters was going to die. It must surely be Jim Brass. I briefly thought it rather clever of them to off one of the cops rather than one of the CSIs, since when you hear of a character being killed off from a show you usually assume it'll be one of the main cast, whereas Brass is more of a supporting, secondary character. So of course his death was made even more unexpected. Still, I felt very sad now that he was going to die, especially in such a horrific way!

The dream really gets vague here. I think the next scene was of Brass sitting down, still outside near the wall I think, with his head tilted back; the top of his skull was gone and his brain was exposed and bloody. x_x Ew. He was barely conscious but still alive somehow, even after all of that horrible battering! There were some people around him examining him, Grissom probably among them. And former lab tech Greg Sanders was there too, apologizing profusely. From what little I could make out, Greg was apparently responsible for whatever had made this car go flying with Brass in it--maybe he'd pushed a lever or a button or something on accident, or hadn't known the car could still move. He was overcome by guilt now, and apologizing over and over again--"I didn't mean it to happen! I really didn't mean this to happen!" Oddly enough, the other characters, whoever they were, were rather neutral about everything, though I sensed Greg might end up in very grave trouble for such a mistake. I felt sorry for him and for Brass; I could not believe Brass had survived that. I felt he would still probably die. What a horrible way to go!

I can think of no real-life associations to this. The "bingo dobber" comparison is very strong, though, although there was nothing whatsoever about bingo in the dream, and I did not think of this comparison until after awakening. When I think of bingo I automatically think of my mother. But that's all I can think of. :/



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