December’s Dream: AI, Luddites, the Future, the Past, the Now

The enigma of Consciousness seems to connect all unconsciously

Awoke Sunday morning on the 28th of December 2025 from a bizarre dream bridging a tangle of alternate timelines in parallel universes. My dream began in 1980s rural Virginia and ended in futuristic 2070s Chongqing, China.

My 3rd ex-wife (and still good friend) Kristina was in a my dream last night. Dreamt we were still married and living in a parallel multidimensional universe on a farm. This farm was my family’s Riverview Dairy in 1980s Prince Edward County, Virginia, but for us it was the 2030s yet she and I were both 30 years old. In real-life we are 9 and a half years apart in age, I’m 66 now, and we live in the Seattle, Washington metro area in the mid-2020s. Both of us have since remarried, although to other people.

In my dream, we walked around in a field of lush alfalfa and clover rimmed with wild grasses and honeysuckle. We were similarly dressed in work jeans, T-shirts, with open, unbuttoned flannel shirts with the sleeves rolled up. Kristina’s T-shirt was bright blue. My hair was thick and wavy and my face clean-shaven. Kristina’s hair was long and hung loose around her shoulders. The white-painted, wood-plank cow barn, milk house, sheds and stables, and the old Bass farmhouse, all with silvery tin roofs, stood in the background exactly as they used to be in my prime universe. As was the old trailer below us on the edge of this field my first ex-wife Margaret Rose and I used to live in back in the early-to-mid 1980s when I was in my 20s. Yet Margaret wasn’t anywhere in this dream nor was my family of origin. I remember feeling slightly confused within the dream because I was self-aware within this dream the timelines did not match up. Only Kristina from Seattle was living on this 1980s Virginia farm. Not even my other ex, Gwen, and none of our children, nor my current wife Faithlyn, or Kristina’s current husband Brandon. In fact I didn’t see any other people on this farm in this particular universe/timeline. They were, however, still all in today’s Prime Universe. The Prime Universe, in this context, is the location of my current, awakened self-aware reality as I consciously live within it. My dream gripped my mind with its intense energy and vivid, even lurid details.

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Galactic Enigma 3i/ATLAS

A mysterious space anomaly has galvanized attention, still generates hype and division, and ignores us silly naked apes as we continue to threaten ourselves and our biosphere with industrial pollution and weapons of mass destruction 

 

3i/ATLAS is neither a regular comet nor an alien spaceship. There is abundantly ample information already out describing the discovery and history of 3i/ATLAS, the numerous theories regarding what it is and isn’t, the hyperbole and drama around it, the origins of its distinctive name, and its numerous anomalies, so we won’t bother repeating such nauseum ad nauseum.

Truth is we don’t really know what 3i/ATLAS is nor do we well understand it. Beware of anyone who does, even with NASA pedigrees. Perhaps the greatest anomaly of all is the infighting between scientists over what this odd object from elsewhere in the Milky Way Galaxy is and the refusal by so many to even recognize many of the anomalies are more representative of an artificially construct than a natural one as well as how quickly a few others go to the other extremes of it being fully an technological artifact. Am not going to repeat all of these arguments over recognizing and interpreting these anomalies here. 

This enigmatic object has many characteristics of a comet, but also many characteristics that are not comet-like. Nor is it an asteroid or some dual comet-asteroid hybrid object. There are so many anomalies it doesn’t behave like a comet. Some following this object have counted up to 14 or more anomalies. Others, uncritically presenting mainstream scientific orthodox religiosity, claim it doesn’t have any actual anomalies as the object is merely a strange one from different star systems with divergent chemistry. Aw, C’mon, guys.  Continue reading

Yesterday’s Season of Summer Fun in the Olympics, 2010

Our Blended Family Camping & Hiking Trip to Olympic National Park,
Wednesday 18 – Tuesday 24 August 2010

***This is a work in progress. Please enjoy anyway!***

Snapshots from late Summer’s magical trip:

Traveling across the water to the Olympics had become a near-annual trip for our blended Seattle family. Every journey was memorable, and this one in August of 2010 became one of our most iconic. A long tapestry of different histories of relationships to the Olympic grew more and more woven together over years and decades. This is part of that story, our story. 

 

 

 

 

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