6.24.2005
Total Recall
Vivid dreams truly are an added bonus of the nicoderm patch. At the moment, I can't remember what it was I dreamt last night, but this morning at 6:00 am I managed to find the willpower to stay awake long enough to write it down. This is rare for me. Usually, I wake up and think 'that was cool' and fall right back to sleep confident that I'll remember it when I wake up an hour or two later. Sadly, that doesn't happen as often as I like and the dreamjournal I started two years ago (and flat out neglect) is a lot slimmer than it should be. The dreams I do remember are always great, but I know I've missed out on a lot.
Last night, I was talking with my friend Kris about bio-tech, life-extension treatments and immortality. What will be done about memory when mankind eventually flips the eternal youth switch? He asked. At first I didn't think anything needed to be done because we usually remember what's important. When he asked me how well I remember the past ten years, I confessed that I cannot always recall everything I said and did and saw the day before. Today as I rethink that statement, I wonder how many of my thoughts, feelings and other experiences have been pushed aside and lost forever?
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe:
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion;
I've watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate.
All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain."
I think it is time to start a journal for my waking life.
DATA OUTPUT: Jessi @ 4:38 PM
DATA INPUT = 5
5 Comments:
Have you ever created a memory portal--a moment of cocentration in which you tell yourself remember? and years later I might not even remember my cousins name, or what I did last fourth of july, but am able to play connect-the-dots with those memory portals in my head, filling in the blanks with journal enries and fanasy. I write my life like I write my blog, who knows how much of my personal narrative is actually true.
I did have an amazing dream the other night. Like that one episode of star trek where picard was scanned by that ancient probe, lived an entire life time in 25 minutes, and learned to play the flute, I lived a whole life with someone. I half expected to find her hankerchief under my pillow as a keepsake from that life i lived in a dream.
A memory portal? That's a good word for it. There are certain things that I can never forget and think of often.
what would your companion do now that he/she is now alone?
Not sure, Kris. I'm way too young to honestly say... but perhaps I would go like Arwen did. To Lothlorien to die...
That poor whale!
Living for millennia or two, maybe even longer than that, would be awesome. I still can't think up a good reason to live forever. I think I would go insane.
I guess we'll see, eh?
"All those moments will be lost in time...like tears in the rain."
"Time to die"
and die he did, and die will we.
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