The Origin of the Rigatoni Sandwich, and Other Adventures in Space

I write down every name that comes to me in my dreams, and notate, if I can, the story of the person so attached. Some names make sense as names. Some names must be the names of aliens or something, I don't know. It's not just names, of course, but weird alien concepts, and cultural things, and works of art, and fiddly bits. 

Throughout high school, every single one of these dream concepts got poured into The Artefact, that sci-fi TV show project that I came up with in junior high and it kind of shows, but which still has some pretty neat ideas so maybe I'll do something with it though obviously not as a TV show. And since I was back at home for Thanksgiving a couple weeks ago, and could access the files on the computers back at home to put them onto 2.0 again after the crash, I totally have access to the files where I dumped the dream ideas I had. Figured I'd share a few of my very very favorite with you.

There are mathematical and sociological concepts ranging from "Coeler’s quality" -- the principle of what separates animals from humans from machines, or how sentience is created when logic is added to emotion-- to, "Dundeloth"-- the mathematical probability of how many children any given person is going to molest in their lifetime. Some concepts are just plain cool, like that of Puncinational- the ‘fog of war’-like effect between technologies of different cultures. Others just make me giggle, like the story of James H. Knox, the first American musketeer. (He was horrified to see that his French counterparts ate live hamster sandwiches. He got some crackers and Rigatoni and thus the first of what we know today as the Rigatoni sandwich was created.)

There's a whole grab bag here of more, skimmed from the top of a lot of different categories:

• 51 Ruminations of ____ (I do have a massive list of names, of course, but I don't like tossing them around and assigning them arbitrarily.) In a certain sect of Christianity, it is held that the hosts of angels not of the Lord’s chosen people must wait 51 thousand years before receiving their angelic names. The 51 Ruminations is a book of 51 poems based around the idea that the ancient poet ___ was one such angel, and he wrote one poem every thousand years till he got his name. Each poem is basically a minor variation of the last, changing as he gains more and more angelic knowledge about the afterlife, with the last poem being completely different from the first one. The first poem is itself a variation of one of the poet’s real poems, in which he famously described the afterlife as “Love Riches Sex Pleasure.”
• Dica- Also called duckman, a species of waterfowl whose chicks look like small dinosaurs.
• Vas Vas- Insectoid Earthlings with human faces.
• Sister, Sister, What is This?- a film based off a four-word poem.
• Ocean’s 11- the eleven people Ocean sold out to keep the Gestapo away from him. The Gestapo came after him anyway and tortured him to death. His daughter escaped and found someone familiar looking, with the same dusty skin color as hers and her father’s.
• A'bl, a game not unlike Go, in which there are four basic move strategies: s'sa, s'saa, a'aa, and some fourth one.
• Dade and Deadead- the equivalent of duke and duchess respectively, with the honorific of “doctor.”
• Gregory tail- clockwork woman hides in back of skirt of larger clockwork woman, etc.

I've got more, but that's good (for now?)... I should have gone to bed a long time ago, anyway.