h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

...but let's start from the beginning...

...a sand desert, with stones and small pieces of rock here and there, pretty flat, straight horizon line, blue sky, sun baking hot...

...the cube in front and to the left of me, about 3 metres high, made of solid concrete, surface feels smooth and cool despite the sun...

...the ladder is a light metal on, shiny, leaning against the cube...

...the horse is a Bashkir horse I cuddled with this summer in RL, cream coloured with black main and tail. She stands with head hanging down, suffering from the heat...

...next to her, behind her from my point of view is... I wanted a tree, but the instructions said flowers, so I tried imagining the flowers in a tree, but that didn't work - it didn't fit with the desert landscape - otherwise a palm tree would have felt right... so it ended up as a thorn bush, with long black sharp thorns like needles, no leaves, but lots and lots of tiny white flowers, with wonderful scent...

...a sand storm, reddish in colour, far away in the distance in the corner of my eye, to the right...

And now comes the odd bit - I sit there watching all this, waiting for something to happen, when the whole image starts tilting, and suddenly I'm watching it from above - and then higher and higher above, and I can't see the storm any more - and then I realize the storm has caught me and is lifting me up and up, slowly blurring the image until all I can see is the sand swirling around me...

If I'm the cube I wouldn't have been flying, would I? I mean, solid concrete is too heavy...

Or could it be because the desert I imagined is one I've visited in RL - Sahara? Because we did get caught in the outskirts of a sand storm for about half an hour or so, inside a bus...

Maybe I should try it again and see where I land/crash once the storm is over...hmmm...strange...

I had a tree as well Maybe it means something... though mine was a different tree.


Dancer

An oak tree with a swing?

Well, when you say you see the whole scene moving and you realise it's you getting sucked into the storm, do you mean you the observer or is it the cube that goes up?

I've noticed my cube stopped rising up, and now it just spins slowly.... very curious.....

I could still see all the objects except for the sand storm... so I guess I was an observer...

Wow - your cube moves?

Intriguing (sp?) stuff, this...

Well, two years ago when I first found the game, my image was very different. But when I envisioned it again recently, it had changed. And it was that my cube kept rising up into the sky; even more recently, my cube stopped rising and now it just spins. ...Don't ask me...

So you see it differently in different times of your life? I'll have to try it again, obviously...