I was
Luke Skywalker. I was also a
kernel hacker, trying to do what I'm trying to do in
Real Life. My dream took place over a fairly long period of time. It started when I was
young, and had
pranksters doing things to my home in
suburbia. As I got older, I became aware of my job, and my
quest. In this case my quest was to fit the
Linux 2.4 kernel onto a embedded
firewall device (which is similar to in Real Life, the
Firecard). My job took me into the city, across a large bridge at night (that's one of the images that sticks clearly in my mind anyway... think the final scene in
Interview With The Vampire).
When in the city I met back up with my sister (Princess Leia) and a couple of friends. They were in hiding, planning a rebellion against the Emperor. The Emperor was the prankster, and looked like the actor who played Q, John de Lancie in his guest appearance on Special Unit 2, wearing a hooded long black robe. I heard that something was happening, he was coming or had heard about us or something and went away, running up the street. For what seemed like a long time I didn't return to the sanctuary that was our hiding place. Then one halloween the Emperor and his sidekick, Darth Maul came to town. They were both out of costume, as I was I, so we didn't recognize each other. Either that or we did but had to pretend we didn't know who the other was.
There was a huge crowd of people going down the main street. When Darth Maul passed me (without his horns or red face on) I said "Hey, that's Ray Park!" and he turned and looked at me, snarling. "What did you say?" he groweled at me. "Ray Park, he's an awsome fighter," I stammered, (not un-truthfully... it's funny how reality and fantasy mix in the dream world). "That's right buddy!" he said happily and started play-fighthing with me. When he left I told my friends "Oh My God! Ray Park was play fighting with me!" Pretty cool stuff, even for a dream. As Maul and the Emperor got closer to my friends' old hiding place, I managed to slip ahead of them in the crowd and get into costume/uniform. I was caught by them going to the hiding place and was forced to lead them to it.
When we got there it was deserted. The Emperor was pretty pissed off, and demanded to know where everyone was. I had no clue, but noticed out of the side of my vision a piece of paper with notes scrawled on it. Something like:
1994-5 - rebellion intact
1996-7 - rebellion intact
1998-9 - rebellion intact
2000-1 - rebellion intact
So I knew that they were around. There was also a sketch (hologram?) of the members, but none of them were my sister or my friends. Sadly I didn't get to wake up and defeat evil, due to a greater evil. My alarm clock.
I can see where a lot of this dream came from though. I watched The Phantom Menace a couple of days ago. John de Lancie was on SU2 last night. One of the guys from work came as Darth Maul yesturday and I had a conversation about getting the 2.4 kernel onto our Firewall device.