I don't know why but I suddenly remembered this really weird dream I had some years ago.
In it there were these scientists or some dudes like that who had genetically engineered an octopus that was so big that it's tentacled reached halfway around the entire planet, ie. when it spread it's tentacles it reached over an entire hemisphere.
So anyway, this octopus was apparently sentient, as there was this huge media event, with a big party with tons of people and reporters from all over the world coming over to hear the first words of the octopus, everyone wanted to interview it and hear it's thoughts about current events and such. So finally the octopus's mouth opened slowly, and it basically said "why did you guys make me? a thing as big as me shouldn't exist."
And it became obvious that the octopus's existence was kind of painful, it couldn't move easily, and just staying alive and sustaining that kind of mass was difficult for it - ok, logically speaking it wouldn't even be feasible for a creature that size to exist, but this is was a dream so whatever... anyway, at this point the octopus made it clear to the reporters that all it wanted was to die, but the octopus had become such a celebrity, and the investors had invested so much in this huge worldwide event that they wanted some more entertainment out of it... so yeah, at this point the dream kind of became really nihilistic and macabre.
So the organizers basically went ahead with the whole media circus thing, and they had the octopus participate in all kinds of events and things when it really just wanted to die... then the organizers promised that if the octopus would just co-operate until the event was over, they'd let it die. But first it had to breed some offspring so they'd get a new attraction later, and then it became like one of those dating shows where there's multiple candidates and the contestant has to choose one as a partner... the partner candidates were all somewhat smaller octopuses (about the size of a house or so) and were also apparently sentient? And the big octopus was clearly exasperated with the whole thing but went along with it because it wanted to die...
There might have been some other stuff, but around this part I woke up.
I'd love to see one of those silly dream-explanation books try and explain that.
that was very entertaining. Dreams are so fun, the worst part of most of them is waking up and forgetting them... 
but rarely shields and portals 
). Those dreams are fun.
) --- it's got SHIELDS!
I once dreamed about a banana peel mounted on the ceiling and twirling like a fan.
