International Association for the Study of Dreams 2004 Psiberdreaming Gallery
In the 2004 PsiberDreaming Art Gallery, "The Matrix,":
The Matrix Code
EWK 5/04/04, Degree of Lucidity: Fully Lucid.
"Inside a school environment, I leave a classroom and walk down a corridor. I realize that I dream and remember my task to try to see "the matrix code" possibly embedded behind the surface appearance of dreams.
I try to use a memorized incantation:
"By the power of Alkahest / Let the Matrix Code visibly manifest!"
I find the chant hard to remember the first time through, and verbally sort of stumble through it.
On my second attempt I remember it clearly and chant it fairly smoothly, with better kavanah. (focused intent and alignment).
Afterwards I notice that the dream environment and objects look different, but still not code like shapes. The dream scene dissolves into a sort of gray void, and I feel myself waking up. I hold onto the kinesthetics to stay in the dream, and the dream scene reappears.
I encounter a short fit man who looks in his thirties. He identifies himself as "Bruce Lee", and tells me had not really died. I doubt his claim, as he looks Caucasian not Asian, but for fun I challenge him to spar, shouting "Matrix moves!" as we begin, remembering the martial arts scene from the movie. I block his attack easily, and retaliate with a side kick. (I briefly wake up in physical reality, having physically kicked the covers. But I don't move, and almost immediately fall asleep and back into the lucid dream.)
I follow [Bruce Lee] down a corridor. I decide to try a simpler approach to accomplishing this task, and simply chant "See the Matrix!" again and again.
The dream scene begins to fade to gray again, but I stay in the dream by focusing on the kinesthetic sensation of a object I hold in my hand. My vision clears, and now I see myself in what looks like a small town movie set, false front houses, pastel colors, a simpler less detailed simulation. It comes more into focus and resolves into a small rural town set. I see a few houses, a trailer, and a small general store style post office, missing the street side wall. On the gray post office box wall inside the post office I see a "just married" sign, black letters on white.
Across the street a see a large star sign on a white background. It looks strange, chaotic, hard to resolve or focus on.
The star has eight, or perhaps ten points. The octagonal (?) star has multiple lines, three or more, slightly offset, and in different colors for different sections, dark green, dark blue, dark red, perhaps some brown.
A "man" dressed in white comes out of the "post office" carrying a toolbox. He has on a white cap - I really only see man shaped clothes, moving without a body. On the white clothes in stark contrast I see lines of small black letters and numbers, covering about 5% of the surface. Dream matrix code? I try to ask the "man" for information, but when I do so "he" falls apart, leaving only a pile of clothing.
I look in the white canvas tool bag, and remove a "white washcloth" with a line of black code on it. I get the impression of small black numbers and letters, but do not, or can not, look at them closely enough to recognize them or identify them. RWPR".
COMMENT:
I created this dream task as a way of possibly exploring the possibility of a non-sensory information universe.
Some have speculated that at the deepest level, we input the universe primarily as code, an information pattern, a code that we learn to habitually translate and then experience in terms of sight, sound, touch, etc. Your computer does this in a simple way when it translates a stream of binary code information - a pattern of 0 and 1’s - into an animated visual display on your computer screen.
We as humans do something very similar when we read an engaging story, where the text presents us with an arrangement of arbitrary shapes (letters and numbers ) arranged in a meaningful pattern that we ignore as such while reading, instead experiencing people, places and situations instead. Some believe that a similar situation might also applies to our waking and dreaming lives.
Cypher described this possible situation pretty entertainingly in first "Matrix" movie: "But there's way too much information to decode the matrix. You get used to it. I don't even see the code. All I see is Blonde, Brunette, Redhead."
In "The Matrix Code' graphic I did my best to reproduce the "chaotic star" symbol that showed up towards the end of the dream, as it certainly seemed the most significant and strange thing that showed up after I did my chant. I feel I succeeded fairly well.
In the dream, I felt that it symbolized the matrix code as a whole - it belonged to a different order of existence than did anything else that I experienced in the dreamscape. Just looking at the graphic gives me a weird unsettled feeling, as if I look at something "not right", that does not properly belong in either the waking or the dreaming world.
The link to this is in my signature.
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