http://realityhandbook.livejournal.com/21243.html
me: "Do you know what the internet is?"
her: "No."
me: "It's a way for computers to talk to each other. Do you have a
computer?"
her: "There are computers at school."
me: "What kind of computers? Who makes them?"
her: "They've got the rainbow apple on them."
me: "Are they Apple ]['s?"
her: "Yes. You have to put the disk in them and there's a latch and
you turn it down."
me: "These days we still have Apples but they're much fancier. Skinny
and flat and you can carry them around with you. They run something
called OS/X."
her: "I don't care very much about computers. But I've heard of Neo."
me: "You have? Where did you hear of Neo?"
her: "It was on the Radio. It was a warning."
me: "What kind of warning?"
her: "A Neo Alert."
me: "What is a Neo Alert?"
her: "It's like a Tornado Warning."
me: "That sounds like a bad thing. Is Neo bad?"
her: "I don't think so."
me: "Well tornados are bad."
her: "I don't know, I've never seen one."
me: "Generally people see tornados as destroying valuable things, like
their car or their home, and hurting people...without doing any real
good at all. That sounds bad. What do people think that Neo does?"
her: "He's like, you'll be using a computer, and he'll punch a hole in
the screen to reach you."
me: "Well, where I'm from Neo is a character in a movie called 'The
Matrix'. Some people where I am from believe that The Matrix is a real
thing, and that the movie is a way of telling the story."
her: "I haven't heard of that movie."
I don't have an overwhelming bias toward modeling the greater universe
in terms of the Matrix terminology and aesthetic. But I've had a few
dreams where it definitely seems like this world is a simulation built
on a rather advanced framework. I invite anyone who's interested to
come check out my journal, which ventures into the wild and crazy
world of all the lucid dreams I bother to transcribe. A few of them
deal with computers, simulation, and our potential place in that:
http://realityhandbook.livejournal.com/22692.html
http://realityhandbook.livejournal.com/23619.html
http://realityhandbook.livejournal.com/9960.html
Questioning readers very welcome. Red pill deliveries accepted as
well...