Sep. 20th, 2012

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Been in bed all day with a cold/manflu-thing. Finally managed to nap, late in the afternoon, and dreamed -- as one does -- an impossibly long dream for the hour and a half I was out. It turned lucid as I started coming back into consciousness, and all the objects in the dream-space started to extend themselves in weird accordion tubes. Some sort of narrator explained to me that these were the real objects I was seeing, extending themselves into their possible spaces. "Oh," replied my dream-self, "Oh, I get it now."

"What we normally see is just a small fragment of reality," explained my semi-conscious semi-understanding of molecular physics, "Atoms themselves are mostly empty space."

By now I was starting to be awake, but experienced a moment of excitement, thinking of the possibility-clouds of electrons in solid matter: thinking, by god, these things ARE just probability clouds of matter in the shape of solid objects, they're just smaller ones than in those weird dream accordion-tubes; they are, in fact, clouds of probability shaped in precisely the dimensions of the solid objects we take them to be. Lol dreams, haha, what are they like.

But as I became even more awake, I remembered that basically all of the 'matter' in matter is in the nuclei, which don't do a whole lot of moving around, and in solids tend to be bound up into varyingly-rigid structures that move hardly at all (except for "vibrating" for being hot and so on). Feeling vaguely disappointed. Any input on this point from physicists would be appreciated.

Also, there was a robot that was supposed to be controlled by eye contact, which I offended by trying to use a mouse.

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