Shadow of a Phoenix
DREAMLOG: July 15, 2024 5:15 pm
PART 1
Shadow of a Phoenix
I put my head into a hexagon shaped VR headset and became like a bird. The visuals start with flying up over the snow cap mountains. It’s hard to tell the scale of the mountains as there’s nothing clear to reference their size as they’re all covered in the snow.
The experience keeps going up and up and up until it finds a good high height where I can see wide open breathtaking views of the mountain range going on forever. Just then, like a roller coaster, I start to dive down along the slope of one of the mountains getting closer and closer to the surface of the slope. As the speed picks up, a sudden rush feeling comes up and it appears that there’s an additional dimension that I’m experiencing that I didn’t feel before.
I look down and I can see my shadow which is shaped like a phoenix with the outstretched wings. The form of the bird is the body of a human with my arms outstretched with elegant triangular shaped wings. I accelerate and accelerate going down the side of the mountain. It’s completely exhilarating how fast I am moving and how vast the mountain is at the same time.
I’ve never felt so exhilarated in flight before within a dream or anytime for that matter. At first I see a pattern in the snow that makes it look like a ski hill, the zig zags of ski tracks. Yet as I approach the surface of the mountain slope those turn out to be massive natural formations in the surface of the snow and now the entire mountain appears far larger than I had originally thought.
The speed continues accelerating and the g-forces are felt. The rush of flying down the surface of this mountain is so incredible, seizing me with butterflies in my heart. I watch the shadow of the Phoenix dancing over the surface of the snow beneath me. It is my own shadow. The silhouette of the two wings forms a triangle concrescing on my legs.
After I finally get close to the base of the mountain the shadow gets bigger and bigger until it feels like I’m going to collide into the mountain it then it keeps zooming in like like a snowy fractal until it feels like I’m falling into the mountain. I get much closer into the mountain then I thought was possible and again it makes the mountain seem even larger than expected. How deep can I get to this fractal mountain? The deeper I get the greater the speed.
Once I finally arrive at the base of the mountain it feels like the bunny hill of a ski hill. I briefly remove the headset and I see XAVI and his father is there who were watching this whole time. I’m exclaiming how wild the experience is and they want to try it, yet I am still absorbed in the experience. “Okay I want to try it one more time and then you guys can try it as much as you want.”
So I do the mountain experience a second time but it goes faster the second time and then it crashes into the ocean and it dives me so deep into the depths of the ocean that I am terrified, I am shaken into my core. The extreme depth of the ocean makes me feel nauseous. As everything is spinning I descend uncontrolled in loops down into the deep deep ocean that gets darker and darker green as the sun recedes into the sky.
Since the 5D VR experience is consensual with my consciousness, it’s allowing me to go as deep into the ocean as I want with my mind.
I let go and it thrusts me so deeper into the ocean with the feeling of being deep underwater in five dimensions, the fifth dimension being an inner feeling that cuts to my very core. The feeling of spinning and sinking is so overwhelming that I get an urge to go back to the surface and I think to myself “I’m not ready for this right now. I’ll try again later after getting my bearings.”
The experience for me is too overwhelmingly intense to be deep under the water, so nauseating and frightful that I realize I need to clear my head and develop some resolve before trying this one again.
I pull back in my mind and the experience gently returns to the surface. I take off the 5D hexagonal headset and shake my head thinking “Wow what the fuck.”
PART 3
Every soldier is a warlord with their own drone army
I am again testing out the five-dimensional virtual reality headset which is shaped like a hexagon from the top. I put it on my head and it somehow expands my awareness outwards in left and right directions symmetrically into a fourth spatial dimension inwards. There are three spatial dimensions projecting out on the faces of the hexagons and then one vertical dimension, shaped like a six-sided cylinder.
I’m on a phone call with Andrew and Scott and we’re talking to another programmer who we’re trying to acquire and merge into our company. At first the other guy thinks we’re just trying to partner but Scott exaggerates how big we are and tells them we want to acquire them and do a merger. His attitude changes and he starts to pitch his product to us.
The guy we’re talking to tells a story about how every soldier will be able to command their own drone army in VR, and it blows my mind how much destruction will come of this. I initiate the creative part of the conversation and take authority and control of the conversation and speculate on how this is going to be reality in the future.
During this I’m in 5D VR flying over a clean beautiful mountainous Asian looking city with train going through the valley. All of the hills have all been colonized with expensive real estate, it all looks miniature like in VR yet it’s lucid real. The 5D vision makes it feel like I’m cross-eyed through the center of my head.
I realize there’s a big war that’s about to break out and we’re building a video game / war simulator that can be used to train kids to command armies of drones. The ethical implications of this gnaw at me yet I continue moving along the course knowing there may be a way to avert it.
I turn the conversation toward Andrew and ask him what do you think is a good idea for the gameplay element of this. Andrew suggests we develop an interface where the player can set the mode of every one of their drones, so the gameplay is a process of positioning drones and setting their modes such as reconnaissance, defense mode, attack mode, etc. We will be tasked with building an easy interface that allows them to automate setting modes and commanding the locations of the drones.
I am seeing Andrew’s game concept unfolding as he describes it while I fly over the landscape of drone armies. It feels kind of like a real world Starcraft.
As we’re on this call, I start to feel nauseous and cross-eyed from the 5D vision, so I experiment with taking off the headset and putting it back on several times trying to figure out how it’s distorting my awareness. The hexagon VR headset distorts my awareness into five dimensions and putting it on and off makes me even more nauseous like VR motion sickness. I finally remove the headset from my head, admiring how its magical technology shifted the horizontal axis from two into three so I could see horizontally into another dimension.
And then I wake up.
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