Dream journal

A space-flight thriller adventure, in which a humanned spacecraft took off, reached another planet despite problems, landed despite problems, did its job, came back despite problems, and the crew landed safely (albeit in four separate capsules, each with its own set of parachutes). I don't remember many of the details, except that one of them was Matt Damon [presumably inspired by my watching "The Martian" a few weeks ago], and while the ship was coming home, those of us at Mission Control were also dealing with a crazy street person in the neighborhood who dressed up as a lion and climbed a tall pole over the adjacent ocean boardwalk, threatening to jump off into the sea. [Presumably inspired by our watching the "Scott of the Antarctic" Monty Python episode last night.] We knew the crazy guy, and as somebody put it "he has a guardian angel, but she's in the service and isn't here right now to talk him down." Fortunately, Matt Damon's character had previously worked with lions in Africa, and spoke the language, so as soon as we got him back from the landing site, we reluctantly asked him to go climb a tall pole and talk down the crazy guy, telling him (in lion language) "You're hurting <insert guardian angel's name>. You're hurting Africa." In particular, I talked to the Matt Damon character and said "I know you just fell thousands of feet hanging from a Kleenex, and survived, and now we're asking you to climb only about forty feet, but... it's always possible you might not survive." And I hugged him.