The end of The West Wing
I watched the very last DVD of The West Wing yesterday, which is a bittersweet thing.  And then I went right to bed, and found myself dreaming of the show's milieu all night.  I don't remember any specific characters from the show being in it except for Matthew Santos, who was prominent, but I know it was chock full of characters from the outgoing Bartlet administration saying endless goodbyes and pursuing new opportunities and fitting into nifty new shots for the future, and it just kept going on, and on.  Like my mind wasn't satisfied with the actual last few episodes and wanted even more closure.  It actually kind of reminds me of other dreams I've had featuring endless transcendence, which in turn make me think of the end of The Last Battle, the final Narnia book, in which the characters run on and on forever, from one version of existence to another more vibrant and colorful and real, in perpetuity.

Adding to the Narnia impression is the fact that I do remember two boys and two girls wandering about the White House and possibly other D.C. locations.  They were some combination of children of presidents in the West Wing universe, touring the place together and discovering wondrous things like swimming pools.  After waking up and falling asleep again, I then dreamed of a board game with a loose Lord of the Rings theme but which consisted only of marbles rolling around on a varnished two-level board, moving up and down through tunnels, and hitting each other.  The object was to land one in the middle (or the One Ring's area).  But the brilliant men playing and marketing it (still in the West Wing universe) were able to make shots so intricate that the marbles would swoop around and hit others at exact angles which would in turn swoop around and keep going with astonishing precision for minutes at a time before finally going a little bit wide.  (One of them eventually turned into Santos, and the other into me, I think.)  I feel like their technical acumen corresponded to the remarkable political acumen demonstrated by the experienced characters on the show.