The View From Space » Dreams

#189

spaceman23 — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 21:22:57 +0000

When you dream, your mind wanders upon the thoughts of the day. That’s what psychologists who study these things say.

Instead consider that you go someplace, a Dreamtime. It’s a common place where everyone around the world goes. In that world, this is a dream, a boring one at that.

New Skills

spaceman23 — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:57:00 +0000

I remember when I first started learning about sleep. I was in high school and in a psychology class and our teacher Mr. Chip Phillips told us that sleep was for learning and processing. I always thought it was for relaxing.

It turns out that we deal with a lot of input during the day, and our brains take it all in and save some of the input to process later. Seemingly unrelated dreams are our minds’ way of dealing with all the data. At least that is part of the theory. It doesn’t explain my dreams of the future that come to pass, though. Maybe the brain can access past and future lives for more in-depth processes. But, that is a conversation for another time.

I have been dreaming a lot lately, and feeling really well rested and alert the moment I wake up. I think it has to do with the fact that I am learning a lot lately. It is coming from many sources, and both the physical and mental world.

1. I am teaching myself html code. Playing with Blogger’s interface and staring at codes that tell text to do things is opening up to something I always thought was really hard.

2. I am taking Ryan’s staff class. I am not exactly sure why, really, other than he invited me. I have no interest in performing with it. It is his method that interests me. I like the idea of physical tasks being much easier than we think. I am intererested in Metaprogramming my human biocomputer, especially in my interactions in the structural realm. I am also practicing with my axe. I had to trim some tree limbs up at the cabin, that thing can chop wood like nobody’s business.

3. My mind has been alight with crazy money making schemes and I have been searching the internets high and low for content and trying to prove to myself that my concepts are solid. What has happened is that I have found this whole new world of blogs and video that I previously ignored. I am also clear that I can do much better.

I woke up feeling like I was learning a lot more. Weird. It’s been a few hours and I am already forgetting. I trust my mind, though. I am sure it will be there when I need it.

Bloggers Block

spaceman23 — Thu, 01 May 2008 21:01:53 +0000

I missed a couple of blogging days. I did however spend a bunch of time on my personal writing projects. So to get back into the swing of things, I will do another 10 Things.

TEN THINGS I LOVE ABOUT MY LIFE

1. I am trying some new web blogging programs. Today I am trying Wordpress (thanks everyone). I like it. I just need to figure out a way to post date posts and get all my old blog posts from tribe into this other site. I am really loving my blogging lately. It has been such an opening for me.

2. The media I have been getting into lately. It has all been so good! I am rereading Promethea and in the process relearning magick that I thought I had all figured out. I finished BSG season 3. It was absolutely incredible! I saw Forgetting Sara Marshal last week with Alicyn and it was so much better than I expected. A friend loaned me the new series of Dr. Who. It makes me want to time travel! And then there are my podcasts and audiobooks I am listening to. Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth and Tim Ferriss’ the 4-Hour Workweek have been rocking my world! I guess being freelance and unemployed does have it’s benefits. I am really just amazed at how good everything is!

3. Despite being without work this week, I have no concerns for money. I am just not worried. Flow.

4. Through my good friend Sammy and his wonderful girlfriend I have a connection with HBO’s experimental webfilms division. It has me really thinking what less than a minute kind of short films can I get out there? Obviously, I am going to need some help. Who’s in? Last night, I did a list of my production resources and holey moley, I have great resources!

5. Between working out and the no sweets and booze… I am really loving my body. Not like loving the way it looks, but treating my body like I really love it. It’s been really fantastic.

6. I love my macbook. The other day, I got to go to the Mac Store to deal with a minor missing program that I accidently deleted. They replaced it lickity split and I ended up spending an extra $60 on a program and iphone case. I left happy. By contrast, when I called microsoft to just deal with an extra $2 charge that I wanted to get removed, I had to deal with 2 emails, an hour of phone time, mostly made up of hold time, I talked to 4 different people, and got hung up on. The $2 issue, still not resolved.

7. Another benefit of plenty of free time is that I have been sleeping really well lately. I have these amazing dreams, full of incredible special effects, dazzling characters and spectacular scenery.

8. Birds. It’s springtime and several families of birds have taken up residence all around my house. It’s so beautiful.

9. I also have a pool. Wolfie pointed out that with a pool comes certain maintenance responsibilities. For instance, on hot days, sometimes you have to just hang out around it to make sure your responsibilities are handled. Cold drinks and music add to the quality of this maintenance.

10. Number ten is always difficult for me. Okay. Flowers. My roommate is a gardener. He has this habit of cutting fresh flowers and putting them around the house. It’s nice. It is also nice that all around my house are all these beautiful flowers this spring. It’s gorgeous.

Yeah… It’s a good life.