This morning I had a lucid dream -- I became aware, during the dream, that I was dreaming. This was the first such dream I had had since watching the movie Waking Life.
I remembered that I was supposed to make an attempt to read. Fortunately, I was in the city and there were plenty of posters and signage. So I concentrated on a particular sign, an ad for a play, and damned if it wasn't complete gibberish. These was extremely exciting. I wanted to tell people, "Hey, it's true!", but I knew that they weren't dreaming.
I also had the presence of mind to look for a hot babe so I could get it on. But nobody wanted to sleep with me! There was one woman walking down the sidewalk. As I approached her, she looked nervous and crossed the street. I think she thought it was creepy that a strange man was walking up to her.
So this dream was too lucid.
That's it.
Posted by cradle at February 8, 2003 8:36 PMHahahaha. You are learning, my protege! Lucid dreams are where it's at. I *can* read in my dreams, bizarrely enough, though sometimes it's difficult and the words move around or change a little.
They hypothesize that it's your left brain that does the reading, and your right which is most involved in dreaming. I think I have an unusually wide corpus callosum (the connection between the two hemispheres) which would definitely explain my boundless genius. (Note: I wanted "boundless genius" to link to a site reminding that Einstein was noted for having a much wider corpus callosum than average, but I didn't find a good page that the fact wasn't either buried in medical jargon or mired in psuedoscientifical pap.
Posted by: Brooke at February 9, 2003 9:53 PMAlso, it seems you've turned off the option for posting html. For shame.
Medical Jargon link:
http://www.bioquant.com/gallery/einstein.html
Pseudoscientifical pap:
http://brain.web-us.com/brain/Visual_Test_Hemispheric_Dominance.htm
Posted by: Brooke at February 9, 2003 9:55 PM