The"RAMA" syndrome..and the Dreams!!

There I go another topic I choose which actually spells the word ABSTRACTION. Anyways for now I cannot think of anything else. Of late I haven't really thought about it as I find myself captured inside a sessile web of imaginations and inter-galactic-odyssey-sensations. I have been reading quite a lot of science fiction these days. It is a completely new sphere for me. I haven't really tried reading books of this genre ever before. And I have always been sticking to general fiction and stuff. But this result has been awesome. I mean the feeling at the end of the book is as if you look around and then blink your eyes twice and shake your head in disbelief of the fact that you are still stuck on your dirty old sofa that happens to be in your house that is, most unfortunately, stationed on this Earth(damn!!). And then some weird imaginations actually tingle your brain. For example when I was coming back from a walk with my brother, I saw these really long, thick sticks, can't really call them sticks as their diameter won't be less than 15 centimeters(there I go again) kept standing against the wall right next to the elevator and suddenly I started imagining strands of hair growing from the root stage, all over the stick and then before the sinister-old "leggies" inhabiting the Rama II actually started darting towards me I ran back home and shut the door! Gawd! I don't know what is happening. This is funny like hell.
I had a dream the other day. The night I actually started reading this series. It is not the influence of Rama alone but also that of some songs sung on a different, distant Earth. Anyways readers of Rama or rather ACC will enjoy the statement made above. Ah, yes. The dream. I am in my room with my Veena on my lap, I am strumming the strings at the set of positions on the bridge that correspond to the notes SR2M1PD2S SD2PM1R2S(Suddha Saveri). Lah! And then two leg-like structures grow out of the rounded large portion of my darling Veena nd then two more legs at the the "Yali" part and there! My veena actually starts pacing away (no I did not play that horribly in my dream!). I run behind it to catch it and then I look up at the sky and then down again. And see 3 of my cousins playing on the beach. And this beach is not a normal beach! The water in it is of course normal (thank god it was water). And the beach abruptly terminates on either sides. It is hardly a kilometer in length. And there are horn like elevations on either sides of this beach. They rise so high that they touch the sky. I can't see where they end(yes Rama-I indeed) I sit on the beach having given up hopes of finding my VEENAlien and then I play with the sand. My cousins jump into the sea and then I see they have vanished without a trace. I panic and go towards the water and then a huge wave comes in my direction and I run for my life. The wave is every letter of HUGE and I run and run and run and run and.....run. That's it. Next frame. I am home and am totally drenched. My Mom screams at me for walking across the rooms making the floor dirty and asks me to go dry my self right away. I am dumb with awe! And the next minute I wake up on my bed and my Mom is actually waking me up telling me that the "Muhurtham" was at 6:30 and that I had only 45 minutes to get ready! Whoa! What a relief to learn that I was back on Earth again! My darling planet =) . This is in complete contradiction of the day-dream I have talked about a few lines above. But either way. Anyway. The universe doesn't cease to amaze me and the humans' imagination!