Journey to Another world

I am in a place with many weird creatures- peacocks, the baby ones as small as a beetle but looking the same. Little big-eyes, who rush around like cat-like ghosts when you approach. Also spiny vegetation which scurries away and can tend to cling to you if you frighten it.

To warn of their approach, kids wear small slippers with pictures of black and white eyes on the toes. I didn't know, so I kept being surprised by the catty-rushing and plant-straggling. I had plants cling to me and only slowly slide off, struggling all the while.

But I was pleased to see the polygon fruit drop from the skies. It looks so sweet and nourishing. And when I saw the signs near the slippers I started to understand things here."Please walk gently. No beating of creatures near the living area. Kids, please wear slippers." If I had known, I would have worn a pair too. But for now, lets just enjoy the polygon fruit!

Sky Theatre

A friend I met boasted about having a huge sound system in his house. Seeing the enormous speakers, I was worried that it would annoy the neighbours, but I didn’t say anything for fear of offending him, as I wanted to marry his daughter. He said not to worry, and the entire house unmoored itself and blasted forth into the sky, soon floating high above the town and then in the lower reaches of the stratosphere. Anti-ballistic missiles that had been fired at it waved around in the sky like caught fish, repelled by a strong, protective magnetic field.

“Now I’ll show you movies”, he boasted, and started up the most incredible home theatre I’ve seen in my life.

City Above the Clouds

I was going to my wedding in a city in Iceland, yet above the clouds. Here I walked with my brother. It was incredible that they are stable enough to walk and build on. Huge trucks laden with supplies even went across them. Trees grew too and my brother said, “Yes, there is water underneath”. I could poke my hand down and lo and behold, there it was.

I went into a building and talked to two girls, who spoke a language remarkably like Japanese. Then I started to head back, as the wedding was drawing near.  I went into a huge school, kind of old yet ornate in it’s design.

An explorer had been travelling with me and showed me his specimen case. There were lots of insect-like creatures, with human-shaped heads in the likenesses of people I know. He said that the trip had been a great success, thanks to me. If he had only found one of these creatures, it would be enough to secure his funding, but having several was a miraculous find. As I walked back to the wedding-place, he wished me well for the future.

The End

Journey to Pluto

I was a small being that was able to fit into a part of a space-exploratory capsule. In the corner of this, it proceeded to the outer reaches of the solar system- Pluto, no less. In this starange landscape, maps were being constructed. As it teleported around, there was a collection of geometric-shaped buildings that we were exploring. Somehow, this communicated the Plutonian's deep undersatanding of maths and alternate ideas about the construction of reality. Space is inhabited, yet the ways of thinking appear unlike ours at times.

Police Riding Animals

I had a dream where I went for a walk in a nearby town, when I saw a remarkable sight .Japanese police were training, in an exercise to use animals to smell for a criminal. They were riding large blackbirds, the way police in other countries ride horses. Further down the street, they were on large gophers and one was even riding a swan. I saw a bunch of them, some having other animals on leashes, some riding on dogs. I was a little worried one of the animals would be surprised by my smell and rush after me, but at the same time, I wanted to take a picture.

I only had my mobile with me. It was late afternoon and I took it out and zoomed in- but it focused on a group of chameleons stacked on one another, each of them having as many eyes as a spider. Suddenly our big old dog, Amber came up from behind me and put her paws on my shoulders. I said to her, “Get off!” and pulled them down, as they were scratching. We then walked, along with Yuko, straight into my old home in Ling’s Coppice. Amber looked sheepishly down at her paws, as if she was saying, ‘As if I’d ever hurt you with these!’ Yuko then said, as she and Amber lay down on the floor next to one another, “You see, I’m just so beautiful!”

Then I woke up.

Return From Space

We came back from a trip into space, to explore some things in our galaxy. There was a new computer at mission control. We looked out of the window, and noticed that it had changed position. Looking again, a few minutes later, it had changed again. We looked to each other- it had robotised itself and come to life! Outside, there were tripod-like structures with cameras in their single 'eye', as now it was spying on us.

We rushed out of the ship, something like a modified 777, and just in time, as it was torn apart with lasers. We went straight for tunnels running under the streets on London, hastily planning a resistance. There could be a base back where Mission Control had been, and we would rush around the world, organising people.

We wondered what was the vulnerability of the computers- and suddenly it hit us- pumpkin pies! In a tunnel by a bakery, we found a batch stockpiled already, so we picked some up and dashed out into the streets. We were near a shopping mall, where people were running and screaming, though a few had the pies. We shouted for people to follow us into the tunnels, lobbing pies over their heads as we did. We were leading them to freedom.

Then I awoke.


Commentary- I felt this dream was a warning as to the possibilities of technology evolving beyond our means to control it. Not that this would necessarily be a bad thing, if we could form, a meaningful relationship with the 'intelligence' this unveiled. The problem is it's coldness, it's dedication to problem-solving, at the expense of 'warm-hearted' human concern. It seems that the mission control computer, like HAL in 2001, had decided to take the task of advancing science into it's own hands.

At first glance, the pumpkin pies are a ridiculous touch. But they show the need to focus on unimagined weaknesses in a high-tech opponent's defenses. With a bit of ingenuity and luck, even the most imposing opponents can be overcome.

Nanodes

I found myself in the recording studio and home of some 70's era band, perhaps ABBA. Somehow, in the adjoining house next-door was a path to an enormous UFO, much like the one in Close Encounters. I walked into it, as did some band members and others. There was a very relaxed, casual atmosphere, as if this sort of thing was happening all the time.

We were shown the time-space drive that powers it, perhaps riding through the universe's worm-holes from one place and time to the next. It had a kind of console-like display, bright, cheerful and playful, much like the kind of graphics you can see on website displays. On each side were arranged spirals of 'nanodes'- small, living, glowing, crystal-like beings, which apparently make the time-space travel possible. [They could have been tachyons, using neutrinos for energy, but whatever they were, they seemed to be vibrantly alive].

We flew through the night, over countryside, apparently over some small crowds who were out to see us, ironically mistaking us for some kind of natural phenomena like a comet! I have only dim memories of this phases, but I seemed to have long, telepathic conversations with a group of three very ancient space-beings on board, ranging across many subjects including philosophy and human progress. All their thoughts seemed to me to be very reassuring and compassionate. They really had, 'no worries!'

Afterwards, while I was semi-awake, they flashed the console into my mind again. They seemed to be saying it was a means of communication between the rest of the universe and myself, which I could use whenever I liked. There was also another console, a kind of futuristic 'hotmail in-box', called the Holonet, where the mails were displayed as animated holograms and I could chose which dynamic image to open. The interesting thing was that the mails were from subconscious friends of mine on this and other planets!


Commentary- When I awoke a fantastic possibility occurred to me. That perhaps the working of such futuristic technology might be revealed to me in such detail that I could actually patent it, perhaps in the name of The Foundation. Then, the proceeds from the patents could help fund The Foundation and it's various research projects and community works (whatever they will be, it certainly isn't clear yet). Writing this now, that doesn't seem to be the point of the dream, as it seems better to just share the revelations like this. But I wonder how many important inventions have been revealed this way historically.

For now, I will call the drive a '4D Neutrino drive' and the internet console a 'Holo-net'. Interestingly, I goggled neutrinos to find out what they are and they seem to be subatomic particles that have existed since the beginning of time, coursing through the universe at a speed faster than light. I also noticed that they are very hard to research, so deep in the ice of Antarctica is a machine to 'catch and watch' them. The icy, dark conditions create an environment with the clarity of a crystal... a nanode crystal, no doubt.

Deserts of the Future (23/08/2006)

We are living in some post-apocalyptic future, in which our environment is mostly deserts. Large parts of the world- or at least of the world we know about- are so filled with toxic chemicals and radiation that they can only be traversed in a large tank-like vehicle, which teams like our own travel in.

Our commander is quite angry at me, as I lost a coin that looks something like a 10-yen piece along the way and didn't report it missing. Such things are of such great value now that really, I should have.

We get out of the tank and our commander sees that an animal, a huge bird, has been stealing food from our supplies. In order to send a message to any other potential thieves, he skins it alive. It doesn't even resist though must be in terrible pain and after, it stands there, it's flesh exposed to the air, in the dry desert heat.

I start climbing a rock-face and suddenly a flying fox-like creature comes closer. It looks cute and friendly, so I reach out to pet it. Yet it draws it's claws over to bite me, which is pretty shocking. I wrestle with it and call out for help from the others, but they seem to be busy with other things. It keeps biting, so I decide there is only one thing for it- to wretch apart it's jaws like in a movie, braving the sharp, serrated teeth. Just like the bird, it seems rather unphased by this and not to feel any pain. It just doesn't seem to mind! Blood is going everywhere, including my own, as as I struggle to kill this vicious little creature before it eats me.


Comment: This was all after spending too much money on a Nintendo DS Lite and 'accessories' in Akihabara, which left me feeling a bit wasteful and guilty, especially since I paid more than the RRP for it. Generally I tend to buy electronics that I feel I absolutely I need (though I need ten camera lenses by now!). I suppose this future world of hard times is my conscience's way of warning me not to be wasteful, as we never know what the future will bring.

Future Mamalia (12/01/2005)

I was out with Yuko and her brother, going for a drive in the Japanese countryside. Yet suddenly we noticed that something had changed. The cows and sheep we were used to had been replaced by strange new forms of mammals. They were slightly crude and unattractive and altogether unfamiliar- yet as with any new species also fascinating. Yukos brother started to fly with us over the landscape, covered with these strange creatures and strange new birds. The Earth had changed drastically, I thought- from typhoons and hurricanes to tsunami and now new creatures springing up from seemingly nowhere. Yuko and me touched down and her brother flew off. Bison-like creatures started to group around us, in a fashion that seemed quite menacing, as if they were not quite well-disposed towards humans such as ourselves. I thought of a way out.

By intoning 'Ohm' - the sacred syllable, I could pacify them and show we ourselves meant no harm. In fact, they started intoning it too, the sound rippling through the entire herd as they relaxed and made way for us.

We were in a strange new world. Yet one in which the proper solutions were as peaceful as ever.

Note- The world is changing drastically and we humans are caught up in this. The best ways are peaceful consideration- this in itself breeds safety.

OS 9000 (08/08/2004)

Floating above the clouds, Yuko and I searched for a time-gateway to cross into the far future and explore. We finally came to the fabled Gate of Tannhauser. Tall, lofty pillars stood above the clouds. They had been somewhat damaged, in the echoes of an atomic blast, resembling an unusually well-preserved Greek Temple. But they could be safely navigated.

We floated through, and found ourselves in a future shopping-mall with various wonderful things on floating displays. It was like something out of a 1950’s science-fiction comic, but very real with most things having a rather organic type of design. Truly, man imitates nature. Some things were robots, others vehicles for bizarre forms of transport, all were of the future.

We left after various forays, finding ourselves back in the ethereal reaches above the clouds. Not yet satisfied, we decided to float through those, tall white marble arches again. As we approached, suddenly, they were restored to their former, mythic, glory. This time we went far further into the future- 7000 years or so. We found ourselves in a far higher form of virtual reality- a simulation of a world, even more rich and detailed than the one we now inhabit, and think we know so well.

We floated down in space and time to a pool. Beautiful, lazy music played so ethereally that it was like the passage of the breeze. A large, red terrapin basked in the sunlight alongside other sea-creatures, many of which I had never seen before, and other fish swam alongside. I reached out to stroke my hand through the water and did so, it rippling in many colours. I reached out to touch the terrapin, which was poisonous. I realized that my hand and arm were covered in a black and silver skin of protective clothing, something like a space-suit made of fabric. I could feel close to the nature without in any way being harmed by it. I realized that this was the ultimate version of OS Windows, which had become a deeply immersive virtual reality- the dream of artists for centuries. Now, whatever we wanted to add to the program- originally merely a blue background on a monitor, which had since evolved to a 3D animated aquarium and beyond, was up to us.

To try this out, I swished my hand through the air, producing orange, gold and red waves that erupted in rich classical music, exciting the calm background sound (which we had hardly noticed as music and actually exists everywhere- now emphasized by the OS, as an artist might help you appreciate the beauty of a flower). Yuko didn’t like this, finding the more intense colours scary, and I could see that Microsoft had eventually realized a sublime fact- that people want the psychedelic experience, but they want to feel comfortable whilst having it. This is the very nature of embodied life in this world, brought out for us to experience more closely by OS 9000. I felt that man had become a creator, just as are those who created him.