This morning I once again found myself in a lucid dream. The dream sign was being in the berthing compartment of a ship and knowing I long ago left the Navy.
As I shouted to an empty messdecks that I know I am dreaming, I decided to sit down and accomplish what’s been on my lucid dreaming list for a while. I pulled out a napkin from the napkin dispenser in front of me, grabbed a pen from my shirt pocket, and asked myself for more lottery numbers.
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My buddy Matt sent me a link to a lucid dreaming article in the New York Times. Overall its a positive article, though the reporter claims lucid dreaming is “difficult to validate scientifically,” which is incorrect. Dr. Stephen Laberge, one of the leading researchers in lucid dreaming, has validated being awake in his dream. While Laberge was asleep and being monitored by EEG machines he blinked his eyes in a predetermined code, proving he was awake.
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Something has stood out in my mind from reading Bill Bryson’s A Short History Of Nearly Everything:
It is still a fairly astounding notion to consider that atoms are mostly empty space, and that the solidity we experiene all around us is an illusion. When two objects come together in the real world – billiard balls are most often used for illustration – they don’t actually strike each other. “Rather” as Timothy Ferris explains, “the negatively charged fields of the two balls repel each other… Were it not for their epectrical charges they could, like galaxies, pass right through each other unscathed.”
I spent some time yesterday (against my better judgement) defending psi on a local mailing list. I knew it was a futile effort but the bait was soooo tempting that I couldn’t resist. I fired off a couple of well-thought-out emails and waited for the inevitable “show me the research” replies, to which I replied with a link to Puthoff and Targ’s excellent (if ever-so-slightly flawed) remote viewing paper in IEEE’s Proceedings.
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