When sleeping, I sometimes return to an odd dream about a strange place: a kind of
museum with canals and boats. The most intriguing thing about those dreams has always been the crazy way that entry and exit to and from the "museum" was made possible. I never understood the entry protocol, so my dream interpretations always involved analogies such as being sucked in through a kind of person-consuming vagina.
Recent discussions with
Gohrlay have caused me to devise a new interpretation of those dreams: I now believe that they represent memories from the future. Specifically, from the future of the
Ekcolir Reality, from the time when there is a vast array of
space habitats in Earth orbit.
When I was in my own personal
golden age of science fiction,
missions to the moon had recently ended and I was ready for the next step into space.
Donald E. Davis did illustrations for NASA and I was intrigued by his depictions of space habitats, particularly those that were inspired by the ideas of
Gerard K. O'Neill.
During those years, I read various
science fiction stories about
space elevators and
large space habitats.
One of the people who attended the
First Conference on Space Colonization in 1974 was
Eric Drexler, who went on to write
Engines of Creation. The term "
nanotechnology" was first used in 1974.
In the
Exode Trilogy, Earth has long been visited by
space aliens who have advanced technology. In the Ekcolir Reality,
Interventionists provide Earthlings of the 20th century with advanced nanotechnology that is based upon
hierions. One of the uses that Earthlings made of that alien technology was the construction of
orbital space habitats.
I've always been very sensitive to motion sickness. What if there were a kind of
space sickness that my analogue in the Ekcolir Reality (
Irhit) has previously experienced? My hypothesis is that I have been allowed access to some of Irhit's memories, so my dreams of a mysterious "museum" might actually be memories from
Deep Time. My fragmentary memories of the "museum" are often distorted and prematurely terminated, possibly by the effects of some odd type of space sickness.
The Human Library
Last year I was made aware of the existence of a
Human Library in the Galactic Core. I did not allow myself to imagine the implications of making a Human Library accessible to residents of Earth. Is the "orbital museum" of my dream a king of access point for a Library of Humanity?
If such a "human library" or "museum of man" exists (possibly in the
Hierion Domain) then it seems likely that in some sense "I" am "on display" in that library. I suspect that a "copy" of Irhit's mind is stored there, possibly along with every other Earthling that ever existed in Deep Time.
Next: Ever Since Ekcolir.
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