Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Dolphins, Superstrings, Mardi Gras, Doomsday Clock, Jupiter dreams

   Dream diary update. My dreams have been relatively peaceful lately, even if not always positive. I only recall interrupted sleep disturbances twice in the last week.
   I had a dream last Thursday about swimming with dolphins, no doubt from awareness of the unceasing beachings in Cape Cod.
   I had dreams all Friday night/Saturday morning about being in college classes with physicists talking about 11-dimensional superstring theory. In the last dream late Sat morning I had had problems envisioning some of the extra dimensions so one of the other 60 minutes whiz kids (not Jake Barnett) offered to tutor me. To get my mind acclimated to knowing the future, he began his pedagogy by showing me some interesting instructional forms in 4 and 5 dimensions as I awoke. This college dream was probably just resulting from walking together and talking to my nephews about their college courses all week. Friday morning I sent my college nephew the cool wikipedia link to Tesseract and we had chats all day about it.

   Saturday afternoon I had a dream about marching with Skeletons through New Orleans graveyards. I typically have such dreams close to Mardi Gras, like the acid sequence in the film Easy Rider, except with lots of different skeletons rising from the graves and collapsing when touched.





 Sunday night/Mon morning I had dreams about Football and Syria, in that order, because of news about the Superbowl and massacres in Syria no doubt. Late Mon morning I had another nuclear winter dream.  Probably a delayed reaction to the Doomsday Clock moving up last week.
So when I woke up I went straight to Global Zero web pages again for the third time that weekend. I downloaded a Facebook timeline background image from their tumblr, for later this month when FB transitions to timelines..Tues morning I dreamed about being in a world where labor unions were strong again. Republicans would call these World Socialism dreams. This morning I dreamed I was a music composer in an alien society. Basically a Sci fi dream but with lots of music.No doubt this dream was a delayed reaction to a question about Jupiter that no one got on Jeopardy Monday. It reminded me of how much I like the Holst score.