Birthday + Dream Foo
Nov. 22nd, 2005 08:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
newnumber6First, Happy Birthday ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
xet_ith!!
Now, dream foo ...
Okay, the one I remember most involved me talking to someone, a teenager, who could read and, to an extent, control minds. I remember trying very hard to think of ways to get around his power, without actually thinking of it - or, to put it a little more accurately, think of it in such small stretches of time that he wouldn't notice it because they're drowned out by other thoughts. In real life I occasionally have practiced with something I call thought-stopping, where I try to think of a plan or something, but CUT OFF MY THOUGHT before it actually fully materializes, verbally, in my head. What I've noticed is that even if it doesn't get to that stage, the thought still 'exists'... it's like thought travels in waves, first there's a very general grasp of what's going on, and then there's the more involved mental verbalization of such that it requires to be 'conscious'. But you can stop the verbalization before you receive it, and only get the 'gist', and yet still carry through the plan in sort of a half-unconscious way. Granted, this only works for not very detailed plans, like 'go to the kitchen' or whatever, rather than 'assemble a nuclear reactor like this'. In any event, the point is you can on some level know what you're doing without telling yourself that you're going to do it. Why'd I go off on this weird tangent? Because that was a major part of the tact I took in the dream, using thought-stopping to generate plans but carry through with them without thinking them at a level he could detect (since it was at least my working theory he only detected 'surface thoughts' - the mental voice in our own heads). I can't remember exactly what my plans were, but I remember very distinctly slightly damaging something we were both working on while talking (like a model plane or something), deliberately as part of a plan I wasn't even completely sure of.
There were also a couple of less-remembered ones, ones that had cameos by Stargate SG1 people (they were blowing something up... a tent? I dunno), and another with a new female religious leader to some religion or another getting assassinated despite extraordinary attempts to conceal her true identity (by having doubles, etc).
xet_ith!!Now, dream foo ...
Okay, the one I remember most involved me talking to someone, a teenager, who could read and, to an extent, control minds. I remember trying very hard to think of ways to get around his power, without actually thinking of it - or, to put it a little more accurately, think of it in such small stretches of time that he wouldn't notice it because they're drowned out by other thoughts. In real life I occasionally have practiced with something I call thought-stopping, where I try to think of a plan or something, but CUT OFF MY THOUGHT before it actually fully materializes, verbally, in my head. What I've noticed is that even if it doesn't get to that stage, the thought still 'exists'... it's like thought travels in waves, first there's a very general grasp of what's going on, and then there's the more involved mental verbalization of such that it requires to be 'conscious'. But you can stop the verbalization before you receive it, and only get the 'gist', and yet still carry through the plan in sort of a half-unconscious way. Granted, this only works for not very detailed plans, like 'go to the kitchen' or whatever, rather than 'assemble a nuclear reactor like this'. In any event, the point is you can on some level know what you're doing without telling yourself that you're going to do it. Why'd I go off on this weird tangent? Because that was a major part of the tact I took in the dream, using thought-stopping to generate plans but carry through with them without thinking them at a level he could detect (since it was at least my working theory he only detected 'surface thoughts' - the mental voice in our own heads). I can't remember exactly what my plans were, but I remember very distinctly slightly damaging something we were both working on while talking (like a model plane or something), deliberately as part of a plan I wasn't even completely sure of.
There were also a couple of less-remembered ones, ones that had cameos by Stargate SG1 people (they were blowing something up... a tent? I dunno), and another with a new female religious leader to some religion or another getting assassinated despite extraordinary attempts to conceal her true identity (by having doubles, etc).
