[UA] Introduction

[David M Jacobs]

At 06:59 PM 24/02/2003 -0500, Walter F. Croft wrote:

>Very interesting. I've always found it difficult to sleep at on in moving
>vehicles. Especially aircraft. And I've been on several long 20+ hour
>flights overseas. I can never sleep longer than 20-30 minutes, and it's
>always catnaps.

My most "natural" sleep pattern is 3-5 hours or so in the early morning, 
waking up at 7 or 8am, then (if I can manage it) another hour in the 
mid-afternoon.  I sleep more in summer than I do in winter.

>Thanks for sharing this David. Even though I don't get inspiration from too
>many actual dreams I've had, I do find the experience of dreaming and the
>whole hypnogogic/hypnopompic states fascinating.

Same here, but I _have_ had a few dreams that've sparked adventure 
ideas.  One ("The Forgotten Woman," on my webpage) was the result of a 
woman named Treganal that I dreamt, who was afraid of being forgotten; she 
asked me to tell people about her so she wouldn't fade away.  I just hope 
that she's pleased that she's now the subject of a short CoC scenario.

Also, I've just read "Last Call" and "Expiration Date" (I'm just starting 
on "Earthquake Weather") and I've been having a few Tim-Powersesque dreams 
lately, usually during microsleeps.  All of a sudden, I'll get a dizzy 
spell, and then I'll have this really cool-but-weird idea, like a ritual to 
prevent virgins from losing their virginity by lining the insides of their 
shoes with 1966 Australian 50-cent pieces.  (For non-Aussies: post-1966 50s 
are made from a mostly copper alloy and have a twelve-sided cross section; 
those made in 1966 are round and have a fair bit of silver in them.)

>I did have a "solipsistic" dream some years ago where I was lying on the
>beach reading a comic book. One panel showed a man with his back facing the
>reader and his head turned in a side glance toward the reader. Then the
>focus of the page moved closer to my eyes until I "broke" through the panel
>and entered the scene. All of a sudden I was that man in the comic panel;
>standing on a beach and turning my head around to face forward to look into
>the setting sun.

You haven't perchance been reading anything by Douglas Hofstadter lately, 
have you?  #%o)



David M Jacobs
dmjacobs at zipworld.com.au
http://www.zipworld.com.au/~dmjacobs/
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"'Kevin,' David interrupted, 'what the Germans should have done
was show the Russians a dead cat and ask them to explain it.'

"'That would have stopped the Soviet offensive right there,' I said.
"Zhukov would still be trying to account for the cat's death.'"

— from Valis, by Philip K Dick



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