Internet Visions and Thoughts

In 1982 I started a computerized bulletin board service. Initially, I created it just as a means of keeping war dialing hackers out of my computer files.

In the early 1980's, most computer communications was done by dial-up modem connections and most networking was what was known as "store and forward", which means one computer would call another, transmit some messages which it would store, some of those would need to be forwarded, so it would call another computer and forward them, and so on. This was the basis for a number of message networks, UUCP, Fidonet, the early incarnation of Usenet, etc.

The Internet did not exist at that time although ArpaNet, it's predecessor connected defense related systems and some university computer systems together. At that time it was not available to the public and would not be for another decade.

So I put up this bulletin board system, it had an e-mail capability, a very simple message system, and an upload / download facility and that was pretty much all.

At that time home computers were quite primitive. The system I had was a Trs-80 model III. It had initially 48 kilobytes (not megabytes or gigabytes) of RAM, two 140k floppies, of which one was mostly eaten up by operating system, a 2 Mhz Z-80 (8-bit bus, 16-bit internal CPU), and a built-in black and white monitor that had 16 rows of 64 characters each and very primitive block graphics that had a resolution of 48 x 128 blocks, each of which was either on (white) or off (dark).

There was no sound hardware but there was a cassette tape interface for storing programs and data on diskless systems. This interface had the capability of putting out either zero volts or a small voltage depending upon the state of an addressable gate. It could also read either a one or zero signal level. Since my system had disks, I hooked this up to a small audio amplifier forming a very primitive audio system suitable for making beeps, clicks, and squaks for games, but not much else.

At this time I had dreams of sitting in front of my computer and seeing full color high resolution images like on a television set. At the time this seemed like an impossible dream, computers simply were not capable of this sort of graphical output. But in a few years, the Commodore Amiga came out and it was capable of this sort of imagery. Still primitive by todays standards but it realized the capabilities I had dreamed of.

Then later I had dreams of dialing in and getting a menu with the ability to connect to multiple computers. I did not understand that because at the time TCP/IP and networking were things I had never heard of.

Some friends of mine did develop a game based upon networked computers. They did this by stuffing super serial cards into Apple IIe computers, a 6502 based machine, and interconnected them writing custom assembly language drivers to allow the machines to communicate through these serial connections. This was one of the first multi-player games in the private sector (Compuserve had some multi-user games) and in my opinion one of the best that has ever existed in terms of multi-player text based games. Unfortunately, this system was not scalable and the Apple hardware had serious reliability problems that lead to the eventual abandonment of this system. This was the only example of real-time networking I had seen.

Years later; I had moved to a Sun based system with multiple computers interconnected with 10-base-T connections, and I had gone to using dedicated communications servers that the modems (it was by then multiple lines) connected to. These systems had a connect menu that allowed a caller to connect to different computers, just as I had seen in my dreams many years before.

Also back in that time frame I had dreams with high quality moving images and high quality audio on a computer, but at that time computers just didn't have the horsepower and networking didn't have adequate bandwidth, but overtime all of that came to pass. Now I can sit and watch movie trailers or concerts streaming live over the Internet.

Back then I had the benefit of these visions directing me but recently I have not had any so I do not really have a solid idea of where things are going. I can extrapolate and speculate like everyone else, but these are only guesses, I do not know where this field is going any longer and I feel very anxious because of this.

One thing I do want to mention though relating to the Internet. In my opinion, the Internet is a mechanistic replacement for inherent capabilities we possess but for some reason have forgotten how to use. It is inferior to the natural capabilities that it has replaced.

It is my view that spiritual development could restore those capabilities and give us the ability to communicate with each other completely transparently, far more efficiently than communications that can be electronically facilitated.

For some reason, when I was younger, I had abilities that I have largely lost. Prophetic dreams, lucid dreams, visions, happened commonly for me. Now they are very rare events. There were people with whom I had a psychic connection and I could see things they were visualizing in their mind. I have not experienced this in more than twenty years. I do not know why I have to a great degree lost these abilities but I do miss them and having had them I can see by extrapolation how useless the Internet would seem if anyone could tap into these abilities at will. I have never been able to do so at will, they have always happened seemingly randomly and spontaneously.

Process

I have elaborated on the final outcome, what life in the Pacific Northwest looks like, what the geography looks like, how people live after the changes.

I have also elaborated on physical events that seem to be happening within our planet and our Sun that may drive the changes that may be coming.

I have elaborated on some of the things visually we will see and technology we will have when it starts to get underway.

This is all assuming that these dreams are predictive and I don't know that they are. I do have dreams which I absolutely know are but they've only dealt with mundane things mostly, nothing like this. These however are repetitive, the dreamscape is consistent, and the sequence of events along one path or the other is consistent, and the outcome is consistent.

As I stated earlier, I see two paths, or two extremes of a path, one in which men exist in harmony with nature and each other and in that case we are not harmed, the process is actually beneficial. The second is closer to the path we seem to be on where we continue to hate each other, show little or no respect for each other or other life forms, or for the planet itself. Many of us don't make it down that path.

In both paths I see massive volcanism, but in the positive path it is slow and predictable allowing us not only to get out of harms way but even to make use of the energy released towards our own needs. In one form of the positive path, I see quite a lot of snow in the region in the winter, not just in the mountains but also in the cities as well. In the mountains, we utilize the volcanism to provide hot pools and heat and steam at ski resorts. It is not threatening, it is predictable and beneficial.

In the negative path, I see volcanoes going off all over the region, and not just known volcanoes like Mt. Rainier, Glacier Peak, Mt. Baker, Mt. Adams, and Mt. St. Helens, but many mountains assumed not to be volcanic in origin and new vents. These are largely concentrated along the I-90 corridor.

In this negative path, the volcanic activity along I-90 is too intense to make escape to the east possible. Volcanic ash in fact completely covers the highway and lava flows also cover parts of I-90 so that it becomes impassible. The volcanic ash though is not the gray powder that Mt. St. Helens produced. It is quite different, gravel sized chunks of red-brown quite porous and sharp material, like air bubbles in the rock. The color was suggestive of a magma with a high iron content, the texture suggested a high gas content.

These volcanoes weren't like typical west coast volcanoes that produce a very thick magma because it is remelted subducted material, rather it was a hot very fluid magma like Hawian volcanoes only more gassy and again the color of the rock suggested a high iron content.

The exception was the volcanic flow from the crack along the base of the ridge in eastern Washington, that magma flowed slowly and had a thick (but not gassy) consistency. I never see it cool in the dreams so I do not know if it has a similar color.

For reasons that aren't clear, a military force prevents people from fleeing to the south. These folks are serious and shoot anyone who tries to flee to the south.

I see nothing blocking flight to the north or west at this phase, but ultimately the
Olympic peninsula is transformed into a series of east-west fingers of land so this is probably not a good place to be. Parts of Seattle also survive, particularly the westernly parts, Ballard especially. So the best place to flee might simply be to one of those neighborhoods. Though I imagine food and fresh water will rapidly become problematic.

I am troubled by the construction of all of these cement walls along the freeway. They restrict exiting the freeway on foot except at an exit. They claim these walls are for noise abatement, but the freeway noise at our house was considerably more noticable after the walls. Further, they have steal doors in the walls but they are padlocked. It is clear to me that these walls were meant to control people not sound.

As I said I saw volcanism along the I-90 corridor in the extreme. What I have described so far has been on this side of the mountains, but I also see activity on the east side although the nature is somewhat different.

Specifically, there is an area that is east of Vantage near I-90 where there is a small town, and to the Northeast of that town there is a dry desert area leading up to a ledge of sorts, I searched for a configuration like this using Google maps and satellite data and I can find one region that fits this configuration. It is Horlick area, just north of I-90, and to the northeast there is a dry desert area with a ridge to the east.

In the dreams I see a huge lava flow come out at the base of this ridge. I am in the town and initially the towns people do not feel threatened, it is far enough away. But the lava is slowly spreading to the west and to the south. I feel the pavement and I can feel it is hot to the touch. Then I spot magma coming up at one location, a small amount not a huge flow but it's right there in the town. I alert the towns people and then barely make it out of there myself. Buildings are consumed and catch fire.

Further south, near Yakima but not all the way down, I see a government underground facility there. It is massive. It is designed to support an underground community of thousands, maybe tens of thousands. It's built like a huge corkscrew tunnel into the ground, and various facilities are at various levels along the way. It goes down to a depth of about five hundred feet but you have to drive the corkscrew for miles to get there.

At the very bottom there is a nuclear fission reactor that provides power for the entire complex. The entire complex is designed to be able to seal itself off from the surface and be self-sufficient for years if need be.

A large number of people from the surrounding people are evacuated into this complex. More than it was designed to handle, but they can be accommodated, not a comfortable survival, but survival. The military believes that once sealed they will be safe from the volcanism but nobody is really sure. The lava will pass over the surface and not penetrate and they can maintain for a long time with no exit to the surface but there is no way to know a volcanic vent or plume won't find the facility from below. Nobody has really any idea where the magma is coming from.

The military assigns various people tasks based upon their knowledge and skills. I am assigned some duty that involves maintenance of the reactor. I am assured that it is safe but I am concerned about being exposed to radiation.

This scenario presents itself to me in recurring dreams. I can't really make sense of it all, why here in central Washington the military seems to be trying to help the populace survive while in western Washington they are shooting at people attempting to flee to the south.

I wonder if the military has any facility like this in that region.

A funny kind of related thing, and maybe this is where the material for the facility came from in my dreams... When I first started working for the telephone company in 1978, there were some people in the main complex in downtown Seattle that had work for the company for many decades.

Now, we had three buildings close together at the time, one that we called Main, at 1122 3rd Avenue, another that we called Mutual at 1200 3rd Avenue, and a third at 1101 4th Avenue that had operator services and the switching control center as well as a PBX switch of some sort for a company.

These buildings were connected via a underground tunnel system and you could go between them through these tunnels. The tunnels were also used for cable between the buildings to connect the telephone switching offices in the different buildings (trunking).

I had a universal key when I worked there that would open almost any telephone company lock except for some of the officers offices on floors of Bell Plaza, and a few doors in this tunnel. There were three that I recalled not being able to get into.

I asked the old timers what these doors went to and I was told that the first went to a power room where they had huge batteries and diesel generators to power the central offices. This was standard telephone company stuff, every central office had a power room. But in every other office my key would get me into it.

But these offices also had a lot of military circuits so I could understand why they might want to control access more tightly since disrupting power could take down military communications not just civilian circuits.

I was told the next door was to a stairway that lead down to the train tunnel that went under the buildings. This tunnel did in fact exist and being up on the high floors of the buildings when the trains went under them was unnerving as they would sway quite a lot.

The last door, the old timers told me, went to a military complex located some five hundred feet under ground and they told me there was a nuclear reactor there.

Well, I know there are deep underground bunker facilities in some other cities relating to continuity of government, and having one near an underground train tunnel would give them a means of secretly supplying such a facility, and there were military circuits in that complex, so I always wondered if there were any truth to it. I never once saw that door unlocked or anyone enter or leave so I never had the opportunity to find out. I asked supervisors but they told me the old timers were pulling my leg but I'm not sure to this day.

But that may have been the seed for this complex in the dream, I don't know.

Like I've said, I don't really know the meaning of these except that they keep repeating which gives me the feeling there is some type of reality to them.

More Details from Dreams

Now that I have elaborated as to why I think the process of earth changes has begun, and I am talking about dramatic rapid changes, not the slow gradual changes that happen over millions of years, but rapid catastrophic change, I wish to say more about what I see in these dreams.

By the time things get more detectably and visibly underway I see a few new technologies in my dreams. Most significant of those is the ability to manipulate gravity electromagnetically and from that ability new devices which involve levitation. While I can not say that in waking state I understand how these work, I can say that the devices that create levitation are not extremely complex. They consist of some electromagnets, driving electronics, and a power source and the entire configuration is not visually very complex. This reminds me of the technology I saw in my UFO encounter but it is less complex in terms of physical layout but more complex in terms of driving electronics.

Unfortunately, this new technology is used by governments for large new oppressive weaponry used to control citizens. It not only allows the control of gravity but also of inertia making it possible to make extremely fast maneuverable craft and unfortunately in the dreams I see these used only for oppressive military applications. There are some marketing platforms based upon this technology as well in the form of lighted levitating platforms frequently positioned over popular outdoor events like 4th of July displays.

During this time, extraterrestrial beings frequent our skies and make their presence well known. They use a very similar technology. It is not clear if we invented the technology ourselves and once having invented it the aliens felt there was no need to keep it a secret or if extraterrestrials in fact shared this technology with us. In this time frame in the dreams I see alien and terrestrial man made craft utilizing this technology to create crafts of extreme speed and maneuverability. I also see these craft equipped with various nasty weapons, beam weapons of some sort but not as precision as Star Trek.

Another technology that is present is a way to create bright focused light in the sky, making it possible to do things like turn a large portion of the sky into something resembling a giant television screen or write words into the sky. This technology is mostly used by marketers to pollute yet another part of our visual environment with advertising at night.

I don't know the time frame, I can not get a year for these things no matter how I try, but watch for these things to emerge in time.

Then I also see some very bizarre natural phenomena in the sky. The most notable of these is extremely intense auroras which sometimes are so bright that they are visible during the day and sometimes mistaken for the sun. I see these most frequently happening shortly after sunset or shortly before sunrise (1-2 hours in either case) rather than predominantly around midnight as is now the case. These displays are spectacular beyond belief.

Those who have been paying attention to the solar cycles will have noted that this last solar cycle was extremely intense and it is predicted that the current cycle will be even more so. I speculate that the combination of increased solar activity and a weak and complex magnetic field will be the cause of these intense auroral displays but there may be other contributing factors.

Another atmospheric phenomena I see in these dreams are extreme refractive events. Under ordinary circumstances, we still see the sun for a short while after it has actually set because the light is bent by our atmosphere by a small amount around the curvature of the earth delaying the apparent setting of the sun. Occasionally discontinuities in the refractive index of different layers of air will break the sun visually into multiple pieces or flatten it just at sunset. I have actually been lucky enough to photograph a split sun.

In my dreams I see these events happening in a much more extreme manner, apparent sunset or sunrise not minutes behind of or ahead of schedule but hours. Double images of the sun is also something I see. Somehow I know in the dream that one image is only an image so this does not represent another star in the sky but some sort of mirage phenomena. Another refraction event I see is the horizon being lifted up from it's real position making it appear as if we are standing in a large bowl. In the extremes this happens so intensely as to be unexplainable in ordinary terms. I do not have any speculation as to what exactly this means or what the cause is.

One last thing I see is other weird visual happenings in the sky, points of light moving rapidly about, the appearance of stars exploding, daylight like light when there shouldn't be.

Again, these aren't happening in the type of dream that is usually prophetic, these tend to be disjointed and not logically consistent like ordinary dreams. What makes them special is that they keep recurring over not just years but decades. I still do not know though that these are not merely metaphorical for some unresolved issues but the amount of consistent detail from one dream to another leads me to doubt that explanation. The fact that there seems to be some physical causes emerging for some of these phenomena, the earth's changing magnetic field, the extremely active solar cycles, also lend credibility to the idea that these are indicative of something to come.

More Evidence...

Another thing pointing to something happening that is affecting the convection within the earths core is changes to the rate of wander of the earth's magnetic field poles, and the emergence of strong magnetic anomalies in the earth's magnetic field.

Most people think of the earth's magnetic field like that of a giant bar magnet. This view is overly simplistic. There are minor poles and anomalies in the earth's magnetic field. There are multiple sources for these. Magnetic fields frozen in rocks spreading at mid-ocean rifts can be of a polarity that opposes the earth's main magnetic field and can cause a localized weakening of that magnetic field. Since this rock moves very slowly, these anomalies are stable and long term and also tend not to be of a high magnitude.

The Suns solar wind and magnetic field lines carried with it also interact and distort the earth's magnetic field lines. During periods of solar magnetic storms these cause the earth's field to wiggle and jitter. This can cause effects ranging from temporary deflection of compass needles from their normal direction to power outages as changing magnetic fields induce very low frequency currents into power lines. Because transformers have very low impedance at these low frequencies, they conduct large amounts of current through their windings either damaging the transformers or opening fuses causing blackouts. These anomalies are very temporary and correlate with solar coronal mass ejections.

There is another type of anomaly that relates to internal changes in the electro-magnetic dynamo at the earth's core. This type of anomaly manifests itself differently than the other two. It changes more rapidly than those caused by magnetic fields frozen in rocks, but less rapidly than solar magnetic storm induced anomalies. It involves minor poles that often rise to substantial magnitude and have a polarity opposing the main magnetic field.

It is believed that the process of magnetic field reversals begins with these types of anomalies, they strengthen until they eventually become the predominate magnetic field replacing the original main field with a new field of opposite polarity. The view that the earth's magnetic field simply flips by reducing in strength to zero and then rebuilding in the opposite direction is too simplistic. Instead, minor poles form and grow in strength as the main poles decrease in strength and eventually these become the dominate field. The earth's magnetic field never totally goes away but it does become weaker, more complex, and less organized for a period of time during the transition.

There are indications presently that the earth is starting to undergo such a magnetic reversal. The earth's magnetic field has dropped to approximately 50% in strength over the last hundred years. The rate of wander of the main north and south poles have also increased substantially during this time frame. Lastly the formation of substantial magnetic anomalies signals a shift. In particular one anomaly over the southern tip of Africa is so intense that it almost entirely cancels the predominant magnetic field over regions of the southern Atlantic ocean. The unfortunate result of this has been radiation damage to satellites over this region that previously were protected from radiation by the earth's magnetic field.

Based upon this rate of decline many people speculate that the reversal will not occur until sometime in the next century. However, magnetic fields frozen into the rocks spreading from the mid-ocean rift tell of a different story, those fields indicate the process is more logarithmic than linear. Once the change starts, the rate of change increases and so the change can be expected much sooner.

It isn't clear that the field will actually reverse, there are instances recorded in the spreading sea floor in the past where the magnetic field reduced in strength but then rebounded in the same polarity as it was prior to the reduction in strength.

What is clear is that changes are occurring in the earth's magnetic field are happening and the rate of change is increasing substantially in a very short time frame.

Understand that these fields are believed to be caused by a self-excited electro-magnetic dynamo in the earth's core. Changes in this field would suggest changes in the convection patterns in this core.

The Beginning, The Earth Mechanism

I believe of these massive changes has already begun deep within the earth although the visible signs are mostly still pretty subtle. More than a decade ago, and at this point I still do not remember the exact year, there was a deep quake off the coast of Oregon that was of a fairly substantial magnitude.

The impressive thing about this quake was the depth, around 300 miles down, well into the mantle. Because of it's distance off shore it could not have been a subduction event, it was actually closer to the mid-ocean rift where new magma comes up and forms new ocean crust.

But one deep quake, well, they happen, no biggie. But within just weeks I heard of another somewhere else, and it was also very deep. I thought this odd and so I wanted to understand more about these quakes, how common they are, how they are distributed. Do they tend to occur only along the mid-ocean rifts, only along subduction zones, only in some particular region of the planet?

So I did a search of various online earth quake databases, some of which went back to the 1950's. Accurate data beyond that time frame was pretty unobtainable, only estimates based upon damage for the most part.

I searched for all quakes of magnitude 7 or greater, at depths of 300km or greater, and what I found was very interesting. I found that, in that year, there had been ten times as many of these quakes as any previous year on record. Further, they were seemingly distributed randomly around the globe. They were not common to any particular region, or to subduction zones or mid-ocean rift systems.

The following year saw a number only slightly elevated from the background level and the years after that saw a normal background level for as long as I had followed it (I have not for some time).

Because of the narrow chronological concentration of these events, I believed that one event was responsible for the unusually high deep quake activity. Because the quakes were distributed globally, I believed it had to be some very deep event, possibly right at the earth's core, although I did entertain one other possibility.

In terms of what might be happening in the core, I have noticed there seems to be periods of high volcanic activity globally and periods of relatively low activity. I tried to imagine a mechanism that might be responsible and I came up with one, a very large natural fission reactor operating in a sort of pulsed mode.

Here is basically what I thought could happen. We all know that the elements in the earth are largely gravitationally separated. Heavy elements like iron tend to sink to the core, light elements like silicon, magnesium, and aluminum tend to float. Convection within the earths core and mantle do provide some distribution of these elements however so gravitational separation is not absolute.

So my idea is that very heavy elements, uranium and thorium in particular, are concentrated even more effectively than iron and other stable elements. Further, that under the conditions of extreme pressure, efficient separation, and just a large amount of mass, these elements reach criticality and a chain reaction ensues. This chain reaction creates much more rapid heating than natural nuclear decay. This rapid heating increases convection which ultimately disperses the fissionables and the reaction stops. This cycle creates the pulsed mode of the natural core reactor and is responsible for pulsed waves of heat gradually making it to the surface and by extension the cycles of volcanic activity.

I shared this idea with a geologist at the University of Washington, and unfortunately, I do not remember his name, but his response was that this hypothesis was testable because natural radioactive decay produces He4 (Alpha particles) but does not produce He3, however, fission products of a nuclear chain reaction does include He3, so he reasoned that measuring the isotopic ratios of He3/He4 upwelling at the mid-ocean ridge should prove or disprove this theory.

A number of years later a mission to sample the gases upwelling at the mid-ocean rift was conducted, the ratio of He3 to He4 measured, and the results were consistent with my hypothesis of a natural fission reactor operating at the core.

This didn't prove the pulsed mode of operation, but I think there is reason to believe such a mode would exist rather than one in which an equilibrium exists. The reason I think this is likely is because I believe that this natural reactor at the core differs from other natural reactors found near the surface in that it lacks water as a natural moderator. U238 and thorium will not fission by slow neutrons but will fission by a fast neutron. I believe the lack of water in sufficient quantities to serve as an efficient moderator, and the preponderance of thorium and u238, elements which are merely fertile with slow neutron activation but fissionable with fast neutrons, suggests strongly that the chain reaction was dominated by fast neutrons.

Because no moderation has to take place between the emission of a neutron from one fission reaction and the absorption by another atom causing it to fission, once criticality is reached, the reaction rate of a fast neutron reactor can increase extremely rapidly. Trying to reach equilibrium under these conditions is rather like trying to balance a pencil on it's point, and I believe it is for this reason that the natural reactor at the core operates in a pulsed mode.

The fact that a high percentage of He3 was found in gases coming from mid-ocean rift vents suggests that this natural core reactor either is or recently was active.

I believe that this historically recent low level of volcanic activity has been the result of a period of non-criticality of this natural reactor but only recently it reached criticality again and another pulse of heat resulted. I believe it was that pulse responsible for rapidly increased convection that caused the high count of mantle depth earthquakes more than a decade ago.

I believe this heat will continue coming up until it reaches the surface and dissipates and in so doing the increased convection and heat will result in increased volcanic activity and perhaps serve as the physical driving force for some of these earth changes.

We are seeing this in terms of increased volcanic activity along the mid-ocean rift and in other areas but I think we are just seeing the very beginnings of more drastic changes to come.

Recurring Dreams - Earth Change New Configuration

In my previous post I mentioned two types of dreams, one in which the dream appears to be a time slice that is logically consistent, contiguous, and these have been for me almost always prophetic (only one time I can recall one of these where reality played out differently than the dream time slice).

And then I have dreams which are not contiguous, I go from one place to another without having been in between, some how just morphing from one setting to another, or I become different characters, or my perspective changes from being a third party observer of a character to being the character. These type are rarely prophetic except in as much as some idea sometimes come across in these that I then am able to implement.

There is another dream category that I have in which a particular image or theme repeats. These dreams aren't logically contiguous like the prophetic dreams I have had, yet, they same theme keeps recurring. In many cases I believe this is just the subconscious trying to bring something into conscious awareness to be addressed, unsuccessfully, so the dream keeps repeating until whatever it is does come into conscious awareness.

There is a subset of this category that I am not sure exactly what they mean because they keep not only repeating the same theme but also the same details. Particularly, from the time I was a young child until present I have had dreams involving massive volcanism and earth changes in the area surrounding where I live in Washington state.

These have the most detail around Seattle and tend to get less detailed as the area involved moves away from Seattle, none the less, the details present are consistent from dream to dream and this series of dreams have stayed essentially the same since childhood until present.

In these dreams I see a very changed Pacific Northwest, and I also at times see the process of change. The process can take more than one path and which path it takes depends upon humans and how they treat each other and other life forms on the planet and the planet as a whole.

Love and respect for this planet, and all the people and life forms on it brings a peaceful, even beneficial transition, hatred and disregard for this planet, it's people, and other life forms takes us down an unpleasant painful path. The end game is the same either way.

I have never been entirely sure if this is a physical reality, a prophesy, represented in these dreams, or merely a metaphor for something else. However, curiosity has caused me to research aspects of geology that could lead to these changes. I will go into this in more detail in a later post.

In the final configuration, the details are so consistent that even roads are the same from dream to dream. The topology and geological structure of the land has changed radically, but these changes are consistent from dream to dream.

Puget Sound and the system of related islands are replaced by a series of east-west fingers of land, the bases of which originate approximately at the current eastern shore of Puget Sound, so western Seattle extends out on these land fingers which extend roughly to where the current western shore of the Olympic Peninsula.

This is good for humans because it results in a great deal of waterfront land, that is used for a variety of uses, and the water ways serve as natural canals and are used for shipping and also by individuals with small boats to access the ocean.

I see people living very differently materially and in terms of the priorities of life. Climatic and other changes accommodate a much different lifestyle, perhaps even dictate it.

The climate is quite different than what it is here now. Year round temperatures tend to hover in the 65-85 degrees Fahrenheit range and rain tends to happen early morning. The seasons are not really distinguishable here but up in the mountains they still are and there is snow pack build up and spring run-off still and so the main thing we see is a change in the level of streams and rivers but otherwise the weather is very consistent.

There are times when streams and rivers are relatively navigable by boat, and times when they are not because of varying water levels.

In these dreams, gentle hills covered with grass and various greenery seem to be the norm. We have houses on these hills, there are no discernible land boundaries, no fences, no obvious demarcation of property lines. The houses tend to be simple, not shacks but not large elaborate structures and they don't seem to be full of "stuff". Often they have just open doorways and windows, no actual doors or glass. Privacy seems neither necessary or desired. Crime does not appear to exist. So doors and solid windows serve no real purpose.

We seem to have roads still but they tend to be less complex, less disruptive to the surroundings, and less used. People do have cars but they are fewer, less grand, smaller, and more efficient. Even at that they are used only sparingly.

I do not know how we make a living for ourselves or feed ourselves, in the dreams we neither seem to be doing either of these things.

Rather than being obsessed with making and owing things, the majority of our time seems to be dedicated to interacting with each other and with nature.

The roads that do exist seem to be small and not so well maintained, I never see freeways in these dreams, roads like Lake City Way or Aurora are about as big as it gets.

The hill that exists between Bothell Way and Brier is replaced by a much longer ridge going from Lake Forrest Park to Bothell. The area surrounding Lake Washington is a valley and the valley extends up to where Bothell way is now.

Lake Washington has changed considerably, Lake Union is gone, these east-west fingers connect through channels to Lake Washington. Lake Washington has a number of larger streams flowing into it and during the spring melts these are navigable by boat, but in the late summer they are shallow enough or completely dry and can be walked on foot.

There is a very organic sense of aliveness to the whole thing. The waters are clean. There is ample commerce and there are people living along the water front, in some areas quite densely, yet, there are no problems with pollution. It is not clear what we are trading and with whom but I do see ships navigating these natural canals.

Dreams and Visions

I've had many dreams and visions which have been prophetic. There are some that I can tell with certainty are prophetic, these have a special quality where I experience them as exactly a slice of time and space somewhere that I will later experience exactly in all the details.

Ordinarily, my dreams have a logical inconsistencies, I will find myself morphing from one location to another, or one time to another, or even one perspective to another. For example, I've had dreams where I start out watching a character from a third party perspective and than at some point become that character. Often there are logical inconsistencies in the dream scenario itself.

Prophetic dreams are not like that for me. I experience them exactly as I would a waking time slice. And invariably, I will eventually experience exactly that time slice.

Often people speak of deja vu, and hemisphere synchronization theories abound to explain them but I know for a fact that this is not the right explanation. I know this because I used to experience deja vu very frequently, and one time I experienced it while the radio was on and it was a live Art Bell show. I was familiar with the hemisphere desynchronization theory and so I decided to test it. I spoke the words I knew Art Bell would speak in advance of him speaking them and I did this for about fifteen seconds. I heard my own words say what I said before I heard his so this disproved the hemi-desync theory.

What I think Deja Vu is, is that people have these prophetic dreams or visions as I do but they do not remember them. When the time comes they recognize that they've experienced it before but they do not remember the specific source of the previous experience.

I get prophetic dreams in two forms actually, the first is as I've explained here, a slice of time that I will later re-live exactly as I dreamt it, every nuance. The second form comes in the form of lucid dreams. In these dreams I become aware that I am dreaming and then I can go anywhere and anywhen I want to just by thinking about it, and it's instantaneous, as soon as the thought comes I'm transported there. These I have tested by going some place that I haven't been but within driving distance, making careful notes about the surroundings, and then driving there to verify what I've seen and it's always 100% in every detail.

I also have waking equivalents of both of these. Occasionally I will be sitting, and a time slice vision will just insert itself into my stream of consciousness, and I've also had waking out of body experiences the first of which was qualitatively similar to lucid dreams in that I could go places by thinking about it, but I've only had one of these and in this one I went to the fourth planet orbiting Alpha Centauri. What I saw there was a very sun-like star, and the planet was earth-like in some ways, different in others.

Like earth, it was a planet with a surface about there quarters water and a quarter land, and the land was distributed in a very similar manner as on earth, there were continents and islands and lakes and oceans and rivers. It had an oxygen rich atmosphere with water clouds and weather systems similar to earths.

Where it differed is that it was physically significantly larger than earth, maybe 4x earth's diameter. It had a visibly much thicker atmosphere. When you look at earth from a geosynchronous orbit, you see a planet with just a paper thin appearing atmosphere. I was a similar distance in space above this planet, but the atmosphere appeared about an inch thick instead of paper thick looking at the edge. Moreover, when you looked straight down, the clouds existed at various altitudes and it created a very three dimensional appearance to the cloud cover relative to the earths. The thicker atmosphere distributed heat around the planet and so there was little temperature difference between the poles and equator or between day and night. It was a tropical bordering on temperate climate planet-wide. The planet lacked a significant moon, nothing like the earths moon.

I was not able to go back to the surface, I was called back to my body by fighting children.

This is the only waking out of body experience I've had that I had control over and unfortunately I can't readily verify what I've seen, yet. I knew nothing about Alpha Centauri prior to this experience but I wanted to find out if it could potentially harbor a life sustaining earth like planet, so I did some research.

Alpha Centauri is 1.05 solar masses but about a billion years older. The higher mass meant that it was initially hotter, but that it has had a billion years more evolution cooled it down, and at this point the temperature and spectrum is almost identical to our sun. So from this perspective it is ideal for life.

Then there was the question of whether or not a planet could have a stable orbit. Alpha Centauri is at least part of a binary star system, it may be part of a triple star system but it is not known if Proxima Centauri (also sometimes called Gamma Centauri) is gravitationally bound to the others.

It turns out that Alpha Centauri and Beta Centauri orbit each other at a distance sufficient to allow stable planetary orbits out to about the distance mid-way between Mars and Jupiter, so stable planets could exist within the habitable (Goldilocks) zone. It has been said that earth's moon lends a stability to the polar inclination that stabilizes the climate. However, I believe the thicker atmosphere might have compensated for a wondering polar inclination by distributing heat evenly.

So right now, I know that Alpha Centauri was as it appeared to me in my visit, but whether the planet as I described exists, we can't know at present. Corot, a new planet finding satellite will have the capability of detecting rocky planets of this size if their orbit causes them to transit the surface of their parent star form our perspective.

The other out of body experience was drug induced and I was totally out of control. I kept finding myself out in deep space and then re-entering my body over and over again. It was accompanied by an intense vibration and a buzzing sound like 10,000 flies circulating around my head. It was an intensely unpleasant experience which I have no desire to repeat. It was the result of starting a drug for ADD that my body initially had some difficulty adjusting to.

Here I've just given the nature of these dreams that I have, I will elaborate on the content in following posts.