Anybody have dreams of the apparent future in general? I mean, not where you saw your friend do something, but where you saw a future way of life? It’s irrelevant to me if it’s just fantasy; I’d still like to hear the interesting stuff.
Recently I was awoken suddenly from a deep sleep. I was all set and patiently waiting to be dropped from the outside of a spaceship accelerating close by a planet, along with and alongside my fellow soldier, who happened to be a woman. We’d be released from the ship, slide down a flare at the rear of the ship for the purpose of slowing our velocity relative to the planet (just like a playground slide), individually fall into the atmosphere of the planet, and parachute into the battle zone. The reason for this strategy was because the other side could not counter this type of drop as it could a drop from a craft within the atmosphere. I knew all this implicitly even though the only visual was of the slide and the curvature of the planet beyond. The planet was only partially visible because there was a "roof" over us and I could see only through the vent at the bottom of the ship, beyond our feet. The atmosphere of the planet was blue like Earth but that wasn't part of my thoughts in the dream; it might as well have been any planet.
In another dream I was walking in a residential neighborhood of a future city. The mass transit system was gondolas like ski resorts have. They traveled at subway or monorail speed and crisscrossed the city at different levels, the highest 30 meters or so, dipping down to stations at ground or second-floor level. One of the posts of the system was in the backyard of a house I was walking by. The post had a small footprint; it didn’t take up much of the backyard. I’ve given some thought to this idea and it seems like the best possible transportation system—cheap, efficient, relatively fast and easy to erect. If in the future people cooperate more for the common good (unlike today where the mass transit is often chosen to make the developers rich, who then kickback to the politicians), I can see that gondolas might fly in cities.
Recently I was awoken suddenly from a deep sleep. I was all set and patiently waiting to be dropped from the outside of a spaceship accelerating close by a planet, along with and alongside my fellow soldier, who happened to be a woman. We’d be released from the ship, slide down a flare at the rear of the ship for the purpose of slowing our velocity relative to the planet (just like a playground slide), individually fall into the atmosphere of the planet, and parachute into the battle zone. The reason for this strategy was because the other side could not counter this type of drop as it could a drop from a craft within the atmosphere. I knew all this implicitly even though the only visual was of the slide and the curvature of the planet beyond. The planet was only partially visible because there was a "roof" over us and I could see only through the vent at the bottom of the ship, beyond our feet. The atmosphere of the planet was blue like Earth but that wasn't part of my thoughts in the dream; it might as well have been any planet.
In another dream I was walking in a residential neighborhood of a future city. The mass transit system was gondolas like ski resorts have. They traveled at subway or monorail speed and crisscrossed the city at different levels, the highest 30 meters or so, dipping down to stations at ground or second-floor level. One of the posts of the system was in the backyard of a house I was walking by. The post had a small footprint; it didn’t take up much of the backyard. I’ve given some thought to this idea and it seems like the best possible transportation system—cheap, efficient, relatively fast and easy to erect. If in the future people cooperate more for the common good (unlike today where the mass transit is often chosen to make the developers rich, who then kickback to the politicians), I can see that gondolas might fly in cities.
