a game encroaches

It is the perfect game. Within it one can find absolute freedom. It has woven intricately into its code any and all things anyone would like to do. It is like entering a lucid dream without having to worry that the dream might fade away. Many choose to live their entire lives in the game, and more.

The game is not without community or without rules, though if one should choose isolation or lawlessness both can be readily obtained. If one wishes to be recognized by others as a hero or if one would like to rise in power hundreds of options are available. Play in space or on land. Play with magic or technology. Play with puzzles or politics. Play with all things at once if you like. Face your peers or band together. Explore or exploit. Learn or take leisure. Whatever experience it is you seek can be found in the game, however visceral or cerebral it may be.

I’ll see you there.

Omen

I once had a dream that my world was being destroyed. They came from outer space. Buildings crumbled as huge eliptical vessels hovered overhead. Clouds turned black as the ocean punched cars off of bridges. There was very little hope. You could find it hiding under rocks or behind doors. Hope soon lost and forgotten.

This I dreamed. Years later I would discover that on the night of my dream we humans ravaged a faraway place. My dreams must have been the untethered fears of others. Was I only a helpless observer? I have not been able to rid myself this sensation of guilt.

When you dream, believe that your dreams are reality.

Shadows of the Wandering Mind

Whenever our mind wonders into the realm of infinite possibility it creates a shadow world. Such a world  exists permanently, from that moment to forever more. I once traveled to one of these shadow worlds myself. I lost consciousness while staring into a very old mirror in the attic. I had been thinking about the past. My old teacher was in my old classroom. She asked me to take my seat. Just like that I was back in the sixth grade. After a while, I realized that the lesson didn’t make sense. My teacher was mixing things up. When I looked at the room more closely I discovered that it was incomplete. Many books lacked definition. Posters were illegible. Colors were somehow wrong, bland. Then I realized that most of the students didn’t quite have face. Yet, they were staring in my direction. I got up out of my seat and backed toward the classroom window. Mrs. Pterin said, “Angie, please return to your seat.” Her face was morphing, perhaps I couldn’t quite remember which of my elementary school teachers were which. I turned toward the window. There was nothing but shifting viscous darkness outside. I began to panic. As the tears began to swell up from behind my eyes, I began to see myself in the glass. I felt someone’s hand on my back. My insides churned and my neck bristled.

I shivered staring at myself in the mirror once again. I suspected that I had just experienced my first lucid dream. It had seemed so real, but how could it be. My father ascended the attic staircase and demanded that I tell him where I had been for the last hour. Apparently my sister had come up looking for me and could not find me anywhere.

I had truly traveled to another place.

vacation

I stayed at this hotel in Canada last week. They don’t have very tight regulation on genetic modification apparently. The hotel was decorated by genetically modified organisms.

All of the plants on the premises were bio-luminescent. It was awesome and beautiful. There is nothing quite like swimming in a pool that is lit entirely by glowing bushes.

The plants in the rooms were electrically charged. Have you ever plugged your laptop or shaver into a shrubbery before? I promise you, it is a memorable experience.

There were also a number of cats on the premises with glowing stripes and eyes. They added an alien jungle aesthetic to the environment. I believe one cat may even have been spliced with squid genes so that it could change the color of its skin and essentially cloak itself, a Cheshire cat if you will.

Perhaps hotels with creatures like these will be legalized in the states soon. One can only hope, right?