Dreams.

I had a dream the night Varya ordered pizza from Claire. In the dream, there were no tables left at the cafe, so we had to get it to go and walk to the park with the pizza. On the way, we encountered some random NPCs, which was amusing. More recently, I dreamt of an animation, like someone made a sequel to Soviet cartoons. It was some kind of comedy, featuring Sharik from "Three from Prostokvashino" and the Wolf from "Wait for Me!", and Matroskin accidentally cut up an old CRT television with a can opener. It was a strange crossover. Then there was another cartoon, also supposedly of Russian production, but it was made with clay animation. The animation was a bit jerky, but the figures were very beautiful, glossy, detailed, and had beads added where needed. It depicted various animals, and there was beautiful music playing, but the idea was that a major natural disaster was about to happen, and everyone would die. Then, special, almost magical, sundials were shown (i.e., clocks that accurately measure time by the sun, but looked like ordinary clocks with hands), and as a byproduct of their operation, they produced enchanted sand. With each second of the clock's operation, the magical sand poured into a flask next to the clock. If you used the power of this sand, you could change the course of time and the sun, and then the catastrophe threatening the whole world would not happen. But why were all these natural disasters, tsunamis, and earthquakes supposed to happen in the first place? Maybe if the clock hadn't measured time and created magical sand, the world would have been safe? Simply because time is flowing incorrectly now, but without the clock, it would flow as nature intended. The last thought, I remember, really struck me. Such an observer effect paradox in a children's cartoon, it looked really powerful...