Well, I promised to talk about the mechanisms of creations, and I'll try to get to that, but first I want to talk about "UFO's" and "aliens". I've been reading Jacques Vallee's Dimensions: A Casebook of Alien Contact, and you can find a review on my Reading Room page. I find his views interesting, and they fit the evidence pretty well. Vallee believes UFO's and the "ufonauts" may be a manifestation of the same core phenomenon as the fairies and leprecauns of old. To state it another way, we are only seeing "masks" and have yet to see who or what is behind the mask. Think of them as being something like holograms, but capable of physically interacting with our reality. The hologram only shows us what its operator wants us to see, and may not tell us anything about the operator. It makes sense to me.

Now, think of that in conjuction with the dreams within dreams idea I discussed previously. Think lucid dreaming. If you are not familiar with the term, lucid dreaming is dreaming where you are aware you are dreaming. I've had lucid dreams on only a couple of occasions, but would love to have more. The neat part about a lucid dream is that, once you realize you are dreaming, you can control the dream. My first lucid dream was quite absurd. I was in the lobby of some kind of office building. The elevator door opened, and some kind of mechanical monster emerged that reminded me of something on a Judas Priest album cover. Anyway, it was so patently absurd that I remarked, "This has got to be a dream. Yeah, it IS a dream." As soon as I realized this, I pointed my finger at the monster and blew it to bits. My other lucid dreaming experience featured walking through walls. I would just push against the wall and slide through it.

I related all that to get to this point. If we are just characters in some higher being's dream, consider what happens if it is a lucid dream. The dreamer's own lucid character can literally work miracles within the dream. Cause and effect need not apply -- he/she thinks it and it happens. Suppose the "ufonauts" are such lucid characters. This would explain much. In abduction scenerios, the abductees often protest that the abductors have no right to do such things to them, only to be answered with something like "Yes, we do have the right." Doesn't the dreamer have the right to manipulate the characters withing his/her own dream? After all, don't we exist within his/her mind (or more likely, within their minds -- it may be a shared dream)? And consider that many close encounters, with or without abductions, are permeated with absurdity -- just like in a dream!

Now, back to Jacques Vallee's hypothesis. Considered from the lucid dream perspective ufonauts, gods, angels, demons, and fairies can all be thought of as lucid characters representing the dreamers. It works for me. What do you think?

Oh, yeah, the mechanisms of creation. For the dreamer, creation is an ongoing frame-by-frame, pixel-by-pixel, moment-by-moment affair. This follows from the concepts already discussed. If the dreamer awakes, the dream stops. A talented dreamer could resume a dream exactly where it left off. To the characters in the dream, the waking time does not exist. It is outside the timeline experienced within the dream. But consider also that the dream need not resume exactly where it left off; it could be edited slightly before continuing. Such editing could be experienced in at least two different ways. Suppose an object, in plain view of a character who we will call Bob, is edited out of existance. Bob is resumed with the memory of the object being there, so he experiences the abrupt disappearance of the object, and is probably startled. However, if after editing out the object, Bob's memory is also edited so that he has no memory of the object being there, he does not experience the disappearance, and is not startled. Instead, from Bob's viewpoint the object was never there. Bob's history has been changed.