Trails
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18 NOV 1999
For my entire life, I have been fascinated with trails. I started my
"trailing" about the same time I took my first steps, and I never really
slowed-down. I have a feeling that many people are like this. It is rare to
find someone who is physically fit... that will totally ignore a sunny trail
into the unknown. If physical comfort is prevalent, confidence high, and
plenty of responsibility-free time available... a person will wander down a
trail, physically, mentally, creatively, or any combination thereof. Trail
explorers! Adventurers! Playful creators! Nature's sod-busters and
trail-blazers!
Daydreaming. What the hell is going on there?! I'm an adult now, and the world
sorta programmed me into thinking that daydreaming was "an undesirable thing"
that foolishly wasted time and energy. What if we misinterpreted daydreaming?
Yes, its not "productive" as far as "producing goods or services"... standard
industrial-revolution thinking-wise... but it does, supposedly, produce "alpha
waves". Alpha waves are also produced in various states of relaxation...
mostly seen in the "trail" from awake to asleep. This trail COULD BE fairly
long, but we seem to travel it at very high speeds. This COULD be due to our
"ON/OFF switch" societally-approved sleeping periods. I think we will
eventually find that 2 periods of sleep per day... and more, but smaller
meals... will be more healthy. These changes will happen more quickly when the
world becomes "open 24 hours".
And, since I've wandered off... WHAT IS DAYDREAMING? It sure can be engulfing!
The brain sorta shifts into neutral, and kinda just hangs there in LALA land,
looking for an idea trail to explore. I guess that's not daydreaming,
that's... um... "cloud floating"? It's when you have no thoughts on your mind
whatsoever, and you're drooling and numb, and essentially... mentally GONE!
I suppose a true daydream has to have "a trail". An idea. A direction. A
subject of adventure and imagination, and sometimes, inventionation (creative
constructing). Many mechanical engineers and inventors of all sorts, are found
to be those who can vividly-imagine the contraptions they invent. Watch a
creative engineer ponder a problem, and you'll see something that resembles
"directed daydreaming". They jump into "cloud floating mode" with a "trail
map" idea under their arm, and they go imagineering and inventuring. :) Its
very much akin to a little girl... playing alone with her dolls and doll
house... doing all the voices for all the characters, actualizing full verbal
conversations between those characters... and all coming from within her
mental imagination adventure. Adults can still do it too, they just choose not
to, mostly because they've labeled this act as being foolish and wasteful.
That is, of course, possibly an incorrect assumption. If the meaning of life,
and/or the secret to developing psychic abilities... relies upon alpha wave
production... we might be denying ourselves contact with that part of us, and
possibly... with the dead, and with "God", whatever that might be.
I do a good bit of hiking. I like adventuring in the woodlands, and I am
thankful to have all my facilities and good health... so I can do it. There is
tons of cool stuff to investigate in nature, especially if you take a few
"antenna-enhancement devices" with you. That's sort of a generic way of
describing things that "assist" some of your 5 "senses". For the eye antenna,
that thing that tunes into a small area of the "spectral frequencies"... we
have things like magnifying glasses, microscopes, binoculars, telescopes, zoom
lenses, etc. Devices like these make nature investigation and imagination...
more fun. (You can see the trails easier!)
Ear enhancers are a bit unwieldy. A sensitive microphone, headphones, power
source, and large power amp... don't travel well on the physical trail. Touch
sensors? I'm not sure how to enhance that, other than maybe with a bit of
moisturizing lotion, and adventuring in a climate where gloves are not
necessary. Now, smell and taste are left to enhance. Believe it or not, you
can fashion a standard light-duty hospital gas mask with a length of rubber
tubing, and actually play with "selective smelling". You put the tube up to a
small plant or organism, and smell it ALMOST as if your nose was right at the
end of the tube. Use short tubing lengths, and do not try this in under-water
trail exploring. :) Now, lastly, the taste sensor. There probably IS a way to
enhance your taste sensor antenna, but I wouldn't know what it is. Probably a
mouthwash of some kind... but, in general, don't taste stuff that you find
along the trail. Always keep in mind that ONLY ONE TYPE of trail critter tends
to use a toilet.
I enjoy hiking in high country or low country, but rarely level grasslands. I
like cliffs and rocks, heavy-wooded ravines, and wooded hill-country. Knowing
this, you can understand how I occasionally get into areas of the planet that
are rarely touched by other humans. Oddly, no matter how treacherous or
desolate the terrain, there always seems to be trails of some sort. Although I
think I've ALWAYS chalked-them-up to being caused by the woodland critters
traveling at night... I always "picture" humans traveling on these trails as
well. I might go up there and travel that trail twice a week, and never see
another human, and rarely an animal. Nothing uses that trail! No paw prints,
few deer tracks, no human tracks, and yet the trail never grows-over... and
remains defined, and worn-looking.
What if my chalking-it-up to nature, and its critters... is wrong. Those
trails in the high-country, and even the ones in your backyard woods... MIGHT
BE caused and maintained... by something completely unexpected. Why are we
drawn to explore trails? (A rather strong draw, I might add.) What makes us
wander off on a thought, idea, adventure, or some other daydream. During
playful wandering amongst nature, we probably produce alpha waves, due to the
relaxation of it. Can you see how a physical trail... fairly accurately...
parallels the daydream trail? One is a body-antenna exploration of a physical
trail... the other is a brain-antenna exploration of a thought trail. On the
woodland trail, we are surrounded by numerous other consciousness and
lifeforms, but mostly they are unaware of our way of life, and we are unaware
of theirs. The same thing MIGHT happen in daydreams, and in sleeping dreams.
Other critters, nearby, and we can hear them alittle, and see them alittle,
and touch them occasionally, and even smell and taste them a bit. But mostly,
we are unaware of them being so close, and they are unaware of our causes.
We've always wanted to talk to the animals, as a society. It has not been a
very high priority amongst the sciences, but we've all wanted to say Hi to a
cow, and many of us have done so, whether the cow understands or not. But the
little boy playing with his "farm toys"... talks quite frankly with his
plastic cow, and the cow talks back, giving advise where necessary, and
endeavoring to remain a member-in-good-standing of the little boy's farm toys.
The plastic cow and the little boy have a perfectly operational
imagination-relationship with each other, and the cow plays an important part
in performing "the other side of the conversation". It acts as a "spigot" to
allow the little boy to ask questions-of, and get answers from... another part
of his own "inner being". What is an "inner being"? Whelp, it could be
described as the part of the little boy that PERMANENTLY hangs out in dream
land. Let's call this little boy... "gold boy" and he hangs out in "the gold
side" of things. The "real" little boy we'll refer to as "green boy" and he
hangs out in "the green side".
Green boy and gold boy are really the same "entity". Gold boy does not exist
amongst the physical matter we know of as Earth. Gold boy ONLY can play with
thoughts, ideas, and other such mental adventures. He cannot play within the
physical objects on the planet, and must take on another form in order to
"actualize" trails he finds and explores on the gold side. There is no other
way for gold boy to truly "experience" these trails, without first creating a
physical body. On his newly-built green-side robot boy, he builds 5 antennas
that are designed to "interpret" electro-magnetic waves and certain radio-like
frequencies. Also, gold boy adds some "matter manipulation devices" to his
Greenie (feet, hands, mouths, skin, noses, eyes, ears, sex organs, etc.). In
order for the "actualization engine" to run properly, Gold boy must tweak the
fine-tuning and antenna aiming so that it ONLY picks up the wave frequencies
that it wants to actualize (experience). It does NOT want to overload the
tuners and brain interpretizer! The amount of wave frequencies "flowing
around" within the gold side... could be enormous. Fine-tuning antennae to
narrow, exacting frequency reception (channel selecting) before wiring the
antennas to the new experiencing green boy... is imperative! Too much inbound
frequency data, and it will ruin the experiencing engine... or blow one of the
5 sensing antennae or one of the 5 super-accurate frequency tuners, or the
brain's interpretizer.
About here, we have to ponder the potential scale of these thoughts... for you
and I are on a trail of sorts, and I hope we have the right shoes and clothing
with us. One might imagine, that the "waves" needed... and the collaboration
of data BETWEEN antennas needed... to fool our brains into thinking that this
entire planet is actually here... when it really MIGHT NOT be here... would be
HIGHLY COMPLICATED and detailed meticulously. Very bluntly illustrated, if
something put together a transmission signal containing many complicated
encoded heterodyned radio-like waves... that'd be one thing. Now, if someone
built a robot-like, 5 antenna, oddly-interpreting, trail-exploring
"vehicle"... that'd be another thing. Now place the robot vehicle (Greenie)
into the complicated wave, and put a glob of "interpreting putty" or
"consciousness" into the robot's battery pack, and watch it GO!
"Man, look at it go! It looks like its ALIVE! Its blasting through that wave
beam as if it had a purpose! Do ya think our Greenie is "feeling" and
"thinking" cuz of that glob of imagination, and quest-for-actualization putty
we put in there? I wonder what it's EYE antenna sees? Is it happy? The guys
who built this wave, and gave us the plans for this green-side robot... said
that these little guys really "eat-up" this little section of wave spectrum.
When they shut off for the night, they sure do send us pretty pictures, don't
they? In fact, all the data coming-in at dream-time is excellent. This
very-interesting data will definitely be stored here in Goldville's Community
Database... as a trail... that anyone can walk down. In fact, we can use this
data to maybe someday... improve the antennas and the tuners on our Greenies!
Look at them boogers GO! THEY'RE STILL GOING! Oooh, did you see that one run
into that other one?! Weird! Almost looked like they were competing for the
same wave area, even though there's plenty for everyone. hmmm. When we
download the pictures from those two Greenies tonight, let's remember to look
at the pictures sent before and after that oddity. Maybe we can figure out why
they competed... maybe we can doctor-up the "consciousness putty" to get them
to stop doing that."
"I wonder if them Greenies know about us Goldies? Do ya think they know that
each of us, has 20 or more Greenies built, and placed in various locations
within "the radio wave"? Do you think they know that if we place them UPSTREAM
in the radio beam, they experience their future living, and if we place them
downstream, they experience their own past? They sure look confused!"
"Do you think they understand that they can communicate with each other not
just in Greenville, but in Goldville too? Do they have any sensors active that
can monitor US talking to them while they upload pictures and symbols to us...
while they sleep? Do they know we love and cherish them? Do they realize how
very excellent they are at "experiencing"... something we could not do without
them? Do they know that by making us Goldies better, we are able to make them
better as well? Do they know that the "consciousness putty" returns to its
Goldie owner if the Greenie should ever be destroyed, or wear-out? I wonder if
they'd feel unimportant and "used" if they knew the big picture? During
sleep-time, when the putty chats with us... it sometimes makes claims of
green-side struggling and competition. Since we can't figure out what's
causing this struggling, and the sleeping green-side putty can't seem to
communicate it well, we'll just have to continue searching for the answers.
Maybe its a problem that will never be answered. Maybe we should give up, and
just smash these little "toys" to smithereens. hmm... I love them though. I
hope they figure out a way to be happy. Just keep sending data, boys! We'll
figure out what the problem is, and then we'll build you with better putty
next time!"
Ah yes, reincarnational selves, and probable selves, and thought/emotion
projections... its a big nightmare of derstandability. (Isn't that the
opposite of understandability?) Hey, I heard a rumor that us Greenies CAN
AFFECT THE RADIO WAVE! Swim backwards or forwards in the wave a bit, (via
alpha waves) and you can sometimes talk to another you! They're not really the
same you, because they've been in a different experience stream than you.
Nevertheless, they can communicate, and they have some matching
characteristics with us! Rumor has it that we are all owned and built by the
same Goldie! Just a rumor, adjust your tuning at your own risk.
Meantime, I got a trail that needs exploring. Not sure why it needs to be
explored... it just does. Let's see, have I got everything I need? Lenses,
mouthwash, hiking boots, coat, beverage, matches, gas mask, rope, toilet
paper, plastic cow, knife, 5 sensors, 5 tuners, central processing brain,
central power supply heart, fully-fueled tanks, adventuresome frame of mind,
map, magnetometer, bug spray, fishing line & hook, gloves, Seth book, two
KitKat bars, and my pipe and tobacco. Yep, I'm ready! I'll report-in when I
get back. Wish me luck!
Thanks for reading! Best wishes!
Wingnut
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