In the dream, I entered a large room for a meeting. I approached a podium to check in. A woman said, \u201cPress 3 – 5.\u201d I looked at the top of the podium, which featured a large joystick on the left and three buttons at the bottom: [345] [3] [345]. The guy in front of me stared dumbly at the controls. I pushed him aside, but also stared without comprehension at the maddeningly dream-like interface. A guy (that guy?) said, \u201cThere\u2019s the [5] button,\u201d pointing to an area above the others, mixed in with buttons of various types, none of which had characters I remember.<\/p>\n
At that point, I *felt* the involvement of a part of my mind that wasn\u2019t caught up in the dream. That part speculated this was a test. I imagined \u2013 I did not see in the dream, but imagined about the dream \u2013 that there was a small screen, one line tall, a few characters wide and that whoever could perform the instructions despite this absurdly adverse setup would be selected. (For what?)<\/p>\n
Later, awake, and telling the dream to Merri, I wondered if the guy I pushed out of the way was me. Not just in the sense of \u201cyou are everyone you meet in a dream.\u201d Impatient with my own failing, I pushed myself out of the way. But I think the voice that identified the [5] was not the external narrator who hijacked the dream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In the dream, I entered a large room for a meeting. I approached a podium to check in. A woman said, \u201cPress 3 – 5.\u201d I looked at the top of the podium, which featured a large joystick on the left and three buttons at the bottom: [345] [3] [345]. The guy in front of … Continue reading Press 3-5<\/span>