[UA] Introduction and dreaming

[David M Jacobs]

At 01:28 AM 25/02/2003 +0000, Christopher Gunning wrote:

>OffTopic:
>
>Yup, it is me (fame is probably the wrong word to use though).  I knew I 
>recognized your name once I saw it pop up in my inbox queue.  Things are 
>going quite well... am in the process of moving to DC because I landed a 
>nice new job.  Do some writing for WW, though not so much for DP9 any 
>longer.  Are you still in contact with Jason Prince?

No, not really.  I still get the T8ML, but I haven't really been paying 
attention to it since Hilary left.  Well, except that time that I got drunk 
and sent poetry to a bunch of prominent list members who were thinking of 
leaving.  #%o)

>Feel free to drop me a private message if you would like.  Either way, 
>nice to see you here David.

Likewise.

>Back in High School I used to have to get up at 4am to go to diving 
>pracitce.  I have never been a morining person and my brain apparently 
>developed a defensive mechanism not unlike what you are explaining- my 
>mother would come into the room to wake me and I would respond to her, get 
>up, walk in a few circles an go right back to bed- all the while I was 
>still asleep.  My mother told me on a few occasions she carried on 4-5 
>minute conversations with me thinking that I was awake only to come into 
>the room 10 minutes later to yell at me for not getting up (and quite 
>confused as well).

A couple of times, I've apparently taked to my sister whilst stuck in a 
hypnopompic state (ie, between sleep and waking up).  She's never told me 
what I said, but I do vaguely remember that she looked _really_ scared.

>So considering all these interesting stories- what can we do with them to 
>create something for UA.  Still being new to UA I am still getting my 
>bearings with the setting (witness the discussion on rpg.net that I 
>started about templars).  I am less inclined to make a new adept school- 
>but what about a new avatar?  The "Sleeper" perhaps?

There's a school in Postmodern Magick (PoMoMa for short) called 
Oeneiromancy which more-or-less covers this.  Its practitioners are a rave 
group called "101001101," which is headed by a pair of incestuous twins 
known collectively as the Rahyab (which answers your question).



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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