Agassiz, faced with a fossil he had to crack open, was unsure where to strike. But for three nights he dreamed...
When you really observe animals in language programs it's obvious WE'RE the ones missing a lot...
The Engineers make Eden logical. But the blimps go blind, and a demon gets published. Can I escape the hell they've made?
My take on IQ, racism, Murray and Herrnstein's notorious book, and the theory of multiple intelligence. As an (ex)child prodigy it's not theoretical for me: broken hearts, broken trust, broken ribs...
CAUTION: LONG WORDS, RAMPANT ELITISM, GENIUS SHOPTALK
A packet of magic soup mix transports me to the secret wizards' lab in our attic. They're trouble enough, but they've called up a demon they can't handle: the furious Black Unicorn...
Sprague De Camp says religions seduce us with emotional comfort. Is dreamwork science or faith?
I'm at a symposium on how our beliefs alter not just the future, but the PAST...
CAUTION: CONTAINS IDEAS
I never flew in my dreams. I felt cheated. So one day I set out to CREATE dream-flight...
My recent attitude changes are so big, I can fly now. Yet I hide them, lie to my family... why?
I read Stephen Hawking, and dream I'm in the Quantum Desert, full of bridges, holes, and loops--like the microstructure of spacetime. But it's not alien at all--it's HOME!
On TV, the first Jungian anima to leave the unconscious is granting an interview. But the questions are...
Kekule dreamed solutions to the thorniest structural chemistry problems of his era not once but twice...
Engineers! How they do love to impose clean lines on our messy world...
Deep in the caves, a Voice announces I've gone as far as the human mind can stand. But ahead, I see...
Loewi thought nerve impulses were transmitted chemically, not electrically. But he couldn’t prove it, until one night...
Nearly everyone in my family dreams of a mass murder as it happens nearby. But my dad's sure it's his own evil id, and my mom clams up, and my sister forgets. And me? I doubt the whole thing for ten years, until...
CAUTION: NIGHTMARE VIOLENCE
After seeing an Einstein biography I find myself in the bathrooms of Thought-Experiment High, and...
CAUTION: DARK SIDE OF AN ICON
My life is a mess, so I take a class on the four flavors of chaos, and find my Strange Attractors are shifting...
Alternate Earths, possible futures, and pure experiments in planetology, biology, sociology. Most of them teem with intelligent creatures--alien Edens!
CAUTION: ANARCHISM, NUDITY, COMMIES, EVOLUTION
Biking, I find myself chanting a dinosaur name. I don't even know what it is. At home I open a novel, and a Rhamphorhynchus appears, politely defined for me by our obliging universe...
Carl Sagan on the radio mocks ESP and UFOs. So I dream of a flying pewter teapot, and wake to learn...
Sledding at night, I approached the speed of light, and the stars turned colors I'd never seen...
I'm at a physics conference. A new force has been discovered that may allow faster than light travel...
A dance classmate asks a bizarre question that haunts me. That night I dream I'm suicidal--nearly kill myself. Then I'm shown the flow of human development--the same pattern, from souls to civilizations! Eddies and knots recur, but each time, the challenges get more spiritual. I wake up stunned. Then I learn what a shaman I know just dreamed... and now I'm unsure whose dream this is..
CAUTION: IDEAS
Our physics project is top secret, but a stranger strolls into a meeting and opens a can of green light...
In an oneirophobic society, it's easy to forget that when you do dreamwork, you're doing basic science. No funding, no team, no lab coat? Can't be science! Unless they mistaught us what science is...
Okay, say evolution is driven by things (I don't care what) besides natural selection. How could you tell?
I'm a biologist who finds an 'extinct' species in a slum. But the survivors speak: they tell me I'm one of them, just hypnotized to think I'm human... And when I wake, another kind of cultural hypnosis is exposed: