From: nanowave (nanowave@shaw.ca)
Date: Fri Mar 07 2003 - 20:33:15 MST
Harvey, thanks for your lengthy and encouraging reply. I had hoped for
something along those lines, but wasn't necessarily expecting it.
Wow! So you've had (more or less) controlled access to this "alternate
reality" since you were four years old huh? What is the frequency of your
lucid dreams now then?
I've had maybe four or five in my entire life in which, for whatever reason,
I realized that I was dreaming and so I could proceed to explore or assert
my wishes with abandon. It has been many years since the last time, but I
still recall that it was a highly empowering, emotionally satisfying
experience.
I remember reading somewhere that Osama Bin Laden and his cronies placed an
unusually high value on the interpretation of dreams and I think at the time
I said something to myself along the lines of: Wow, how incredibly stupid.
I had assumed that his interest was centered on the metaphysical, signs from
Allah angle, but now I wonder if something else wasn't going on there as
well.
For example, say if in a series of lucid dreams - and this gets back to what
you said about doing useful work while dreaming - one were to repeatedly
practice, in the absence of usual crippling fear, smashing a fuel laden
airliner into a building. And every time, just as the fireball slaps you in
the face, you wake up safe and sound in your own bed. I'd guess that after a
few practice runs of this nature, you'd become fairly confident you had "the
right stuff" to get the job done in the real world. Essentially, you'd know
from past experience that you wouldn't be one to veer off at the last
possible moment and make a bee-line for tea and scrumpets with Saddam or
Moammar Quadaffi.
Just something to think about I guess. I'm reasonably certain I'd make a
lousy Kamikaze pilot. I don't buy lottery tickets, and my seventy-two
virgins would probably be butt ugly and have names like Olga or Gert. They'd
also, no doubt, be opposed to any genetic enhancements that didn't directly
improve their chances of winning a gold medal in the weightlifting
competition.
Russell Evermore
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