{"id":3331,"date":"2015-10-21T06:22:43","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T06:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/?p=3331"},"modified":"2015-10-21T06:22:43","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T06:22:43","slug":"los-angeles-in-a-parallel-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2015\/10\/21\/los-angeles-in-a-parallel-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles in a Parallel Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The second dream I had the night before last involved a much different version of the Los Angeles area than I remember seeing many years ago.\u00a0 I remember it being hot, dry, flat, lots of pavement, not a lot of natural area,<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In the dream totally different.\u00a0 There were two substantial lakes northeast of the Los Angeles area, a bit up in the hills, one was higher than the other.\u00a0 There was a river flowing into the top lake, a small swift river down a steep slope from the top lake to the lower lake, and then below that the city.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 People would intentionally ride the river from the top lake to the bottom.\u00a0 It was swift but short.\u00a0 No big rocks or anything to knock yourself out on.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The lakes were clean and transparent, pristine, with much plant life around them.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I was afraid to ride the river down, but I got too close to that edge of the lake and went involuntarily.\u00a0 It was a great sensation and so I climbed up the hill to the top lake to do it again.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I met a girl there who wanted me to see the city.\u00a0 It was dusk, getting too dark for river riding.\u00a0 So I followed her down to the city.\u00a0 It was totally not like anything real.\u00a0 You’ve seen how they’ve lighted buildings with LEDs up here to a degree.\u00a0 It was taken to an extreme there, everything was lit up brightly and colorfully.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There were no cars in the area where we were.\u00a0 There was a densely occupied area with paved walkways in between buildings.\u00a0 Many of these buildings were art pods.\u00a0 They were buildings with an open interest and some form of art in them like open mini-museums.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There were many human service things that specialized in some particular service, much of it automated.\u00a0 Like if you needed your hair washed you could go into one place and sit in a chair and a machine would wash your hair without getting the rest of you wet.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There was no violence or threat of violence.\u00a0 Most everything was cheap to free.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 My sense was that it was a world that could be if it weren’t the .1% that want to control everything and own everything.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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