I didn't go to Nina's class today. I woke up this morning and discovered I was sweating. A lot. The sheets were very wet. As I am not going cold turkey off heroin and it was cold in my bedroom this morning (it's rainy and cold in LA today), I figured that the sweats were a bad sign. I stayed in bed.
Tiffany called and asked if I wanted to get together tonight or this weekend; I remember what I said to her, and it was coherent, but I can't believe I actually said it. (Let's just say I mentioned a very clinical sign that I wasn't feeling well.) She called back later and I apologized; she said, "What? You didn't reveal any state secrets."
I did have one amazing dream image this morning. The dream was one of my very complexly plotted dreams that I don't remember if I don't write it down immediately (and even then, I'm not going to get it all down). In one scene, however, the main character (played by a young Anthony Perkins) stands with a woman above some water -- whether they're on a dock or a boat I'm not sure. He looks up and tells the woman, "Dive!" They both dive into the water and try to go as deeply as they can as quickly as they can.
Now the camera angle is from several meters down in the water pointed up towards the surface, which just shows a large expanse of light blue. (If you've ever gone diving, you know the scene I'm trying to describe here.) And then there's a dark spot in the middle of the water surface. The spot gets bigger, and bigger, and bigger, until it covers the entire visible surface. Until it drops through the water -- it's a plane that's dropped straight out of the sky, and the fusillage hits the water and breaks apart into giant metal chunks, plunging through the water and rending apart and churning up everything in sight. Why Tony wanted to dive, I have no idea. I guess it was safer than where they were. (The plane is also carrying several missiles, which Tony goes back for later in the dream to steal and sell to terrorists. Like I said, I can't remember the plot.)
That image of the bright blue sky through the surface of the water getting darker and darker until the plane bursts into the ocean is so clear in my mind right now.
No, you may not use it in your film.
I'm really bummed about not making it to Nina's class today, but a choice between driving safely and staying home...it was pretty clear, frankly.