Yep, it's time for this thread again. Any Gensokyans appear in your dreams lately? Or did you perhaps dream you were in Gensokyo, Makai, the Netherworld or wherever else?
I bring this up because I had a really bizarre dream a few days ago. I was in a large Shinto shrine, which I understood in my head to be the Hakurei Shrine. Outside, there was early morning sunshine. Reimu walked into the shrine, looking very austere and serious. She didn't pay attention to the fact that I was there, so I just watched what she was doing.
She walked to a little wooden cupboard near the floor and opened it up. Inside was a computer - just your standard home desktop PC (don't ask me where the electricity came from - it was a dream, alright?). On the screen, I saw a score of sheet music - mostly quarter notes, both melody and bass, in a steady rhythm not deviating much from A major. Carefully, as if performing a sacred ritual, Reimu sat down in front of the computer, picked up a microphone, and began to chant.
Now, this chant was not in Japanese. It wasn't in any language I could identify. It was a steady series of vowels and consonants and I would kill to remember exactly how the chant went. But I do remember her voice was decisive, sharp and clear, and that the rhythm was about two beats per second. I felt a calming feeling wash over me as she chanted. With each sound she made, each note on the screen changed from black to yellow. When all the notes were yellow, she put the microphone down, made a click with the mouse, and then closed the cupboard, bowing her head.
In my mind, I understood that this was a daily chant that she, and other shrine maidens around the world, sent out to the heavens. The words are different each time; they are personal to the particular shrine maiden and the particular day, but the melody is always the same. An electronic prayer, in other words.
I have no idea what this means.
