[UA] Would you like gas with those fries?

[sneadj at mindspring.com]

"Patrick Joynt" <deadairis at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I get utterly worthless flashes of precognition -
> I'll dream something...
> and not remember I dreamed it - usually a scene, a few moments or even
> minutes of time - and then experience, when it happens, a sense of
> terrible deja vu, as I realize that I had *dreamt* this already. So,
> worthless, because I don't recall them until they're in the midst of
> being.

I'm reminded of two odd and cool books by 1920s psychic 
researcher John Dunne: _An Experiment with Time_ & The Serial 
Universe_.

Dunne alleged that:

1) Dreams contain fragments of events from you waking life, with 
events closer in time being more commonly represented than older 
events.

2) Consciousness is time-independent in dreams, so you can 
dream fragments of events from tomorrow as easy as yesterday.

Thus he explains such fragmentary precog as fragments of your 
future actions, and goes on to develop a weird theory of time and 
prove the existence of an immortal soul and free will (the later being 
a good trick btw).  Wonderfully wacky stuff that's just begging to be 
used in a game like UA.

Now, as long as folks are sharing nightmares:

In college I had a dream where I was in my dorm at night, but most 
of the lights were out and the rest were quite dim.  I was walking 
the empty halls, when I ran into a *seriously* nerdy/quirky friend of 
mine. He grabbed me, pulled me down on the ground, and I could 
feel my life and soul being pulled out of my body, while I looked up 
at his eyes that were black and featureless.  *Very* terrifying, I 
tried to scream and could feel myself being able to do nothing more 
than whisper (knowing that if I actually screamed someone would 
likely come out of their room and save me).  At one point I almost 
woke up, caught a glimpse of my room and then was pulled back 
in, then I finally managed to pull myself awake. I never told that 
friend about the dream, since he would likely have made a big joke 
about it, and I was *not* up for that.

-John Snead sneadj at mindspring.com  

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