Dreams

You’re Already Dead

July 27, 2010
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I’m not sure how the dream started but I found myself in the middle of a worldwide panic. I think I was watching the news. There was some sort of catastrophe approaching. In my dream it seemed to take the form of an earthquake. I was in a large city and the buildings were collapsing everywhere around us. I was somehow able to jump from building to building. A friend was always there with me but I’m not sure who. I saw another friend and his kids. I tried to get him to leave with me but he said that he needed to stay with his family. A moment later we were all underwater. I was looking for a little girl’s stuffed animal. I found it and gave it to her but it was the wrong one. It belonged to some other kid. She died holding some other kid’s teddy bear. My friend and his family were gone and somehow I moved on to the next place.

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Underlying Reality Beneath It All

June 21, 2008
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As I have gotten older and had a chance to catalog my dreams, I’ve noticed that each dream, though bizarre and individual in narrative, are beginning to self-assemble. It’s as if I am given only brief, random glimpses into another life – a life that keeps on moving even when I’m not around. This is not a normal life and perhaps the oddity of it all comes from our conscious attempt to make sense of the nonsensical. However, over time, recurring geography, architecture, people, machines, and themes all overlap into something more cohesive than random.

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I Woke Up In Burundi

February 7, 2007
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I was at a beach party late into the night. The sand was black and rocky – the ocean was beautiful. As the party was winding down, I realized that I had no idea where I was. I asked one of the guys that was at the party where we were. He said, “We are in Burundi.” I have dreams all the time where I find myself far away and have to walk back home, so this is not that unusual. When he said “Burundi” I realized that I was not going to be able to walk. How had I gotten here? Only if I had woken up on another planet could have been more lost. My friend said I could stay with his family until I figured out how to get home.

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Weightless Body, Weightless Mind

July 3, 2005
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My dream last night: I’m in a mansion somewhere. There are rock stars, physicists, artists, and other creative types. This was where I worked and I found myself talking to the Rolling Stones. Mick Jagger asked me what my favorite Stones cut was and I told him Undercover of the Night. I was reprimanded by our company owner for being too restrained in my creativity. He said that I would be let go if I didn’t stop being so conservative in my thinking. We had our usual 8am meeting. During these meetings the gravity would be turned off and we could float around and jump from wall to wall spinning and doing all kinds of tumbles. I was the day’s case study and I was asked to just float around as if no one else was in the world and speak what ever came into my mind. People around me took notes. It was an incredible experience and I said words like “revolutionary,” “simple,” and “one”. All sorts of thoughts came into my mind.

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I Was Clearly Upside Down

February 20, 2005
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I read an amazing article two nights ago about an autistic savant that has the incredible ability to communicate his thought processes. The majority of savants are unable to communicate in way we can understand – because of the odd nature of the condition language centers are often rerouted or damaged completely. Most of the damage is found to affect mostly the left hemisphere of the cerebrum.

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Humanity’s Last Hope …

June 2, 2004
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Last night I had the strangest dream. NASA was involved in trying to change the trajectory of a comet. Most of our comets originate out in the Kuiper Belt, far, far away. However there is some speculation that these comets somehow keep the Solar System’s gravity in check. It’s a sort of self-regulatory system. NASA was trailing one of these comets (as they have actually recently done) and accidentally knocked the comet out of it’s normal orbit. Instead of the usually figure eight around the Sun and around the Kuiper Belt, the comet was moved to the next closest star Alpha Centari.

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The Desert Disappears Beneath the Water

February 4, 2004
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In my dream last night we were both in a very old civilization. I think is was Mayan because of the architecture. It began in a museum though – we were looking at old artifacts. I showed you the snakes that they worships and you were afraid. I made you a couple of traditional necklaces that you really liked. I studied their culture and found that the ultimate symbol of separation was when the word “dune” was said to another person. This meant that you would never see them again. The person that said this word had to move far away to ensure that they couldn’t see each other. This ceremony usually took place when a family member was outcast or when lovers separated. It was a sacred word and vowed something that could never be broken.

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