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hoveringsombreroI had a strange, very vivid dream yesterday nap, that's stuck in my head since.
I dreamed I was from another planet and was visiting earth, all first contacty and stuff, but all peaceful like, no OMG KILL THE ALIENS silliness. My race was nearly identical to humans with one exception.
The exception being that with my people, hair colour, eye colour and skin colour were random, like fingerprints. It wasn't tied to genetics, you'd still look like your parents, features wise. If both your parents were tall, you'd probably be tall, if your dad had a big nose, you might too. But if your mom had red hair and your dad had brown skin, it had no bearing on what your colours would be.
It was just a wildly weird perspective, to see earth peoples, and be so completely confused and fascinated as to why they grouped by colours.
It seemed terribly profound and interesting while I was in the dream, but just sorta sounds silly trying to tell J, and typing it here. But it's still stuck in my brainmeats. I wonder if it could turn into a decent story without being all heavyhanded about racism implications. I doubt it. Wasn't in the dream but I can't imagine it working well on paper. Just seems like it'd come off as a whole ha ha we're better than you cause we don't have colour barriers, when that wasn't the way it was at all in the dream.
Oh well, silly sleepmovies.
I dreamed I was from another planet and was visiting earth, all first contacty and stuff, but all peaceful like, no OMG KILL THE ALIENS silliness. My race was nearly identical to humans with one exception.
The exception being that with my people, hair colour, eye colour and skin colour were random, like fingerprints. It wasn't tied to genetics, you'd still look like your parents, features wise. If both your parents were tall, you'd probably be tall, if your dad had a big nose, you might too. But if your mom had red hair and your dad had brown skin, it had no bearing on what your colours would be.
It was just a wildly weird perspective, to see earth peoples, and be so completely confused and fascinated as to why they grouped by colours.
It seemed terribly profound and interesting while I was in the dream, but just sorta sounds silly trying to tell J, and typing it here. But it's still stuck in my brainmeats. I wonder if it could turn into a decent story without being all heavyhanded about racism implications. I doubt it. Wasn't in the dream but I can't imagine it working well on paper. Just seems like it'd come off as a whole ha ha we're better than you cause we don't have colour barriers, when that wasn't the way it was at all in the dream.
Oh well, silly sleepmovies.
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Date: 2008-10-24 08:56 am (UTC)Lopsider, bigeye, and unibrow... Zipperlips...
I'm reaching, I know... but you know that would have to be true... Racism is like Religion... I'm sure ignorance is universal.
Heh, I'm sure even a race of rainbow people would still have morons that hate gays.
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Date: 2008-10-24 09:23 am (UTC)And also, maybe there'd be people that would refuse to breed for fear of having children of a different colour, like two of the same colour would get together and just adopt a child that "looked like them" colourwise.