#anime dream
Had a dream last night that I was watching an anime about a guy who’s in his late teens/early 20′s who discovers that he has a long lost younger brother who’s a science prodigy. I’m assuming their parents are dead because neither him or his brother mentioned anything about their parents.
The story takes place centuries into the future. This young man comes from a small rural community. He boards a sky train for the first time as it flies him from the farm lands into the city where sky-scrapers and other flying vehicles dominate the open air. As he’s peering out of the window, awe-struck at what he’s seeing, the sky train begins to descend onto the road where he’s going to take a tram toward the laboratory that his brother is working for.
As the tram is pulling up to the lab, he sees monuments to human space travel on pedestals along the road from space shuttles to advanced space ships that you would see in Star Wars. Finally, the tram pulls into a station and he gathers his things and steps onto the platform. He follows the directions he’s been given and travels on foot to the lab.
When he arrives, he knocks on the door to a small room and an Albert Einstein-looking man opens the door excitedly and lets him in. He tells him that his brother is inside. The man walks into the room, not knowing what to expect and he sees his little brother, a short bespectacled boy with a bowl cut is tinkering with some chemicals on a bench. The boy looks up at him emotionless. The man happily greets the boy but he doesn’t get a response back. A small green drone the shape of an bluetooth earpiece flies into the room and apologizes to the man for his brother’s lack of response and says something about him being consumed by his work at the moment and tells him that he can put his bags down in one of the offices in the back of the lab.
The man walks back of the lab where there are two metal doors. He opens one and sees a girl sleeping in one of the rooms half clothed and he immediately apologizes and closes the door. He then opens the other door and sees that the room is empty and he places his bags down on the floor. When he comes out, the girl who was sleeping is standing outside of the room holding the drone. The man looks into her eyes and sees that she’s blind. He apologizes again to her, telling her that he didn’t mean to wake her and she explains that she transferred her consciousness into the drone so that she could rest her body and still help the researcher and his assistant. Also, the drone allows her to see.
The man asks her why she doesn’t opt to get surgery or transplants to correct her blindness and she says that she isn’t able to go out in public anymore because of a crime she accidentally committed as a child. She unknowingly stole gems from a condemned mine when she was exploring caves with a friend. The exposure to the gem caused her blindness and when she was caught by the authorities, the media made an example out of her as to why it’s dangerous to let people explore condemned areas on the outskirts of the city. Ever since, she’s been too ashamed to go out in public because all everyone ever sees her as is that blind girl who trespassed into an abandoned mine and they ridicule her for it. The researcher she’s living with hated what the city did to her and he’s vowed to reverse the effects of her blindness. In the meantime, he’s taken her on as an assistant and transferred her consciousness into the drone to provide with with temporary vision.
The man felt really terrible about what happened to her. He then started to wonder if that’s what his brother was working so diligently on…a cure.
