While I was bumming, I spent a lot of overnights awake. One of the few things of consequence that happens in the middle of the night is Coast to Coast AM, a nationally-syndicated talk radio show which isn’t afraid to take on the “fringe” topics (aliens, conspiracies, Bigfoot, etc.). One night, they covered various natural ways of “doping” yourself with various sound patterns, optical illusions, and the like. The example that really drew me in was eating Stilton cheese before bed, even as little as an ounce, can lead to weird dreams.
I did a little research, found their source for this (the British Cheese Board, via the Internet Archive), found some Stilton, and gave it a shot last night. And, indeed, I had a strange dream. You see, someone had taken my ancient (ca. 1995) laptop and revived it. The laptop actually runs a first-gen Pentium with 8 MB of RAM and less than a gigabyte of hard drive space. It was still somehow running Windows 95, but it was running like I’d never seen it before. Some unnamed person in the dream had rigged up a wireless card, a fresh battery, and a mass storage device to it which reported several terabytes of storage (more than Windows 95 can support). I was confused and amazed in the dream, but before I could press for any real details or figure out that it was a dream, I woke up.
I still have more cheese to eat.
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