am I dreaming?
I'm currently eating pinapple pieces from a can and now Jesse walked into the room and is narrorating the things I am doing. He is now saying "check out how cool this game is" and proceding to show me a video game on his DS. Now he fucked with it for a minute and said "screw it, I'll show you later". Enough of that.
Well, as is common for this time of year, today was my first day of classes. I have two of them. I missed the first one. I made it to the second 15 minutes late. There's a story behind that but I'm going to waste neither my time nor your thoughts on the process of relating it. On to more interesting subject matter: As always, I've been exteremly interested in computers, technology, the internet, cyborgs, robots, space, the future, and so on and so forth. Well, I've recently become very interested in the human brain, and more specificaly, in its state while we sleep. I've read quite a bit on the subject and discovered some very thought provoking topics. One of many that I've been delving into lately is lucid dreaming. Interestingly enough there is a scientist by the name of Stephen LaBerge who has proven the existence of lucid dreams, or perhaps more accurately 'the ability of a person to have a lucid dream'. This man is apparently able to dream lucidly at will, and has written a book about the topic. There is now an entire organization devoted to practicing, teaching, and researching the field of lucid dreaming. This orginization is called, appropriately, the Lucidity Institute. These people offer books, manuals, and even classes that teach the 'art', if it can be called that, of lucid dreaming. I find this facinating because of one particular reason, among others: The most powerful computer known to man is the human brain. I love video games, which are essentially a virtual reality created by a computer. Logic follows that the most 'real' virtual reality would be created on the most powerful computer. So there you have it: The best video game in existence is a lucid dream. This facinates me. What is more awe inspiring than a world you create yourself that has LIMITLESS posibilites? The next question I find myself asking is 'If our brains are simply an incredibly powerful computer then is our complete reality only a product of some infinitely complex algorithm?'. But that question has much deeper philisophical rammifications so I won't explore it at the moment.
I don't know about you all, but I used to have many lucid dreams when I was younger, a few years ago perhaps; but I have not had one in quite a while. I'm currently experimenting with different ways to induce such a state. So far I have not been successful but I don't see why it could not be done. I'll keep you up to date on what I find.
I leave you now with the main thought of my day, mostly had during the commute to and duration of school: People are everywhere, and they are strange.
Well, as is common for this time of year, today was my first day of classes. I have two of them. I missed the first one. I made it to the second 15 minutes late. There's a story behind that but I'm going to waste neither my time nor your thoughts on the process of relating it. On to more interesting subject matter: As always, I've been exteremly interested in computers, technology, the internet, cyborgs, robots, space, the future, and so on and so forth. Well, I've recently become very interested in the human brain, and more specificaly, in its state while we sleep. I've read quite a bit on the subject and discovered some very thought provoking topics. One of many that I've been delving into lately is lucid dreaming. Interestingly enough there is a scientist by the name of Stephen LaBerge who has proven the existence of lucid dreams, or perhaps more accurately 'the ability of a person to have a lucid dream'. This man is apparently able to dream lucidly at will, and has written a book about the topic. There is now an entire organization devoted to practicing, teaching, and researching the field of lucid dreaming. This orginization is called, appropriately, the Lucidity Institute. These people offer books, manuals, and even classes that teach the 'art', if it can be called that, of lucid dreaming. I find this facinating because of one particular reason, among others: The most powerful computer known to man is the human brain. I love video games, which are essentially a virtual reality created by a computer. Logic follows that the most 'real' virtual reality would be created on the most powerful computer. So there you have it: The best video game in existence is a lucid dream. This facinates me. What is more awe inspiring than a world you create yourself that has LIMITLESS posibilites? The next question I find myself asking is 'If our brains are simply an incredibly powerful computer then is our complete reality only a product of some infinitely complex algorithm?'. But that question has much deeper philisophical rammifications so I won't explore it at the moment.
I don't know about you all, but I used to have many lucid dreams when I was younger, a few years ago perhaps; but I have not had one in quite a while. I'm currently experimenting with different ways to induce such a state. So far I have not been successful but I don't see why it could not be done. I'll keep you up to date on what I find.
I leave you now with the main thought of my day, mostly had during the commute to and duration of school: People are everywhere, and they are strange.