It's not very often I remember a dream, and even more rare when I remember it vividly. I watched Knowing this week so this must have  been what prompted this one.

I was camping alone and watching TV on a beach when out across the water I saw a bright beam of light shoot out of the sky and hit the water as it made a high pitched noise. I looked down at my TV to see what the news said and it was just Sharon Rose reporting about another ATV rider somewhere in northern Maine who was killed.

Now suddenly I'm on the same beach, but it's in South Portland and across the water I see a new beam hitting One City Center. The building isn't destroyed, but somehow I know that everyone inside was vaporized.

Still nothing on the news about it yet and Sharon is now doing the intro to that segment where they show pictures of kids catching fish. I'm glad the beam hasn't gotten her. I like her.

Now I'm in an abandoned building and suddenly the bright beam is right above me about to fire. So I grab my XBox controller in my pocket and move a blinking cursor next to the light and press A. Another blinking dot flies up into the air from right next to me and explodes next to it in a jagged pixel shape as I hear white noise. It takes out the beam and I've saved the world.

I look down at the TV that is still at my feet and Sharon is now doing a story about how I have saved the world with this graphic behind her.

Yep. I saved the world with my Atari 2600 Missile Command skills. Then I woke up. You're welcome.