{"id":4263,"date":"2021-04-26T11:09:28","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T16:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/?p=4263"},"modified":"2021-04-26T11:09:28","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T16:09:28","slug":"disney-dreams-part-ix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/?p=4263","title":{"rendered":"Disney Dreams, Part IX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hmmn.<\/p>\n<p>Uhm&#8230; wow, ok.<\/p>\n<p>Wow.<\/p>\n<p>Still trying to process some of this stuff- this complex, intricate, very confusing yet awesome and incredibly weird but great and monumentally historic and&#8230; <em>odd<\/em>, stuff.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; you know, I stopped watching Disney Channel sometime before junior high, which in these parts of the country is 7th grade.<\/p>\n<p>So I missed some stuff.  A lot of stuff, actually.  Pretty much everything released from like 1992 to like&#8230;, IDK, 2008, or something, when I started crushing hard on Demi.  Was that 2008?  It might have been 2007, or so.  <\/p>\n<p>IDK.<\/p>\n<p>Ok, so, let&#8217;s get to the chase here.  <em>The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes<\/em>, about a teen who &#8220;connects&#8221; to the internet with his mind- was that me?  I remember my friends talking about it but I never watched it myself, thinking at the time that I had &#8220;outgrown&#8221; Disney stuff.  I was in high school when it was released.  <\/p>\n<p>I know it&#8217;s a remake.  But a cursory glance at this flick is seriously making me wonder, here.  It&#8217;s the &#8220;tells&#8221;.  They are there, buried in the movie.  The little things that seem to just point to me, directly, that everyone else might miss.  Small moments that only I would watch and think &#8220;yeah, I remember <em>that <\/em>very clearly&#8221;.  I&#8230; won&#8217;t describe them.  Just thinking out loud here.<\/p>\n<p>Disney also released another movie that year, <em>The Big Green<\/em>, about a bunch of kids playing soccer, that I haven&#8217;t seen.  I have, however, watched the trailer, and oh man, I literally remember <em>everything in it<\/em> from my own inventory of experiences playing soccer for years as a kid.  I mean&#8230; wow.  <\/p>\n<p>Is it&#8230; possible?  IDK, I mean, <em>The Straight Story<\/em> came out in 1999, and <em>that<\/em> flick was ripped directly from my own mind, but the story there is that Lynch made the film, was surprised at the G rating, and then Disney snapped it up, since it accidentally fit their tone.  At least that&#8217;s how the story goes as it was told by the trades back when.<\/p>\n<p>But&#8230; well&#8230; what if?  I don&#8217;t know.  This is all so incredibly crazy, all of it.<\/p>\n<p>Need I mention that some of the kids at school called me &#8220;the computer&#8221; because of how fast my brain was, compared to everyone else&#8217;s?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know.  This is really hard to grapple with, here.  Soooooo many coincidences.  What a puzzle.  And this is all still <em>very <\/em>hard to square away with what my teachers, parents, etc. told me was reality.<\/p>\n<p>Going back further, we have the flick <em>Day- O<\/em>, which Disney released in 1992.  I was 12 when released, probably 10-11 when it was made.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve not seen it except for snippets on youtube, but it seems to be a about a boy of my age at the time who is a ghost \/ astral projection who continually pops in and out of a woman&#8217;s life.  Could have been doing this, back then?  I honestly don&#8217;t know.  Maybe?  I <em>do <\/em>know that a lot of the surrounding features, like the house featured at the party, seem quite similar to what I remember from my family&#8217;s old house.  But then, a lot of people have houses like that.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know, but the &#8220;feel&#8221; of the whole thing is extremely &#8220;me&#8221;, I think.  I mean I can&#8217;t place it and I can&#8217;t find any direct tells but it just&#8230; seems very familiar, somehow.  I don&#8217;t know.  I don&#8217;t remember watching this as a kid but that doesn&#8217;t mean I didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, the more I look the more confused I get by all this.  Soooo many coincidences.  It just doesn&#8217;t add up, based on what I had assumed and was taught &#8220;the real world&#8221; was.<\/p>\n<p>Well&#8230; more stuff to ponder, I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hmmn. Uhm&#8230; wow, ok. Wow. Still trying to process some of this stuff- this complex, intricate, very confusing yet awesome and incredibly weird but great and monumentally historic and&#8230; odd, stuff. So&#8230; you know, I stopped watching Disney Channel sometime before junior high, which in these parts of the country is 7th grade. So I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4263"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4263"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4270,"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4263\/revisions\/4270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}