The Imagination Worshipper

I have come back from a week long trip to Florida with my Grandson Denver, my Son Mark and Becky, my Grandson's wonderful Mother. I love these three with all my heart.

The highlight of the trip for me was a very simple exhibit at the Kennedy Space Center where my grandson and I touched a piece of the moon at the same time.

I worship God as imagination but never in my wildest dreams as a child did I think a grandson and I would touch the moon.

Imagination is Truth

I'm working on a Science Fiction movie and I think about all the people that believe nothing has value unless it is part of reality.
I've always thought imagination was reality and facts are propaganda.

More Flags of Micro Nations

Why all the silly flags? I'm writing a scene that is a parody of the United Nation and I didn't want to use Macro Nations. All the flags of Micro Nations will be made into parody flags.

I want to be a Micro Nation

The above images are all the flags of Micro Nations I could find in 30 minutes. I've decided to start my own Micro Nation for fun and will be posting my Micro Nation flag next week.

Mind on Fire

I've gone manic in the mind's eye. Entire stories are coming into my mind in seconds. The flood gates of creativity have finally opened for me after a year of struggle. How can entire stories flash into my head? Does this happen to other writers?

Breath of the Universe

Imagination is the breath of the universe. Hold your breath between life and death. Let your dreams live in the moment.

River of Dreams

My imagination is like a river flowing in my mind. I can take from that river any time I want.

Sometimes when I'm angry the river boils and cruelty come out of my dreams. I try so hard each day not to get angry and most days I have little problem with this. As I work on the feature script I find I must turn my imagination from the negative and take the high road.

Now that river has flooded my mind with more dreams than I can use:)

Stone Eden

For many years I've been designing a house made out of stone, earth, slag glass and living things that I call Stone Eden. The structure has five main rooms.

1. Heart Singer
2. Life Bringer
3. Soul Healer
4. Mind Talker
5. Word Spinner

This is a project I'll never build but is a fun mental problem. Someday I'll post plans for this project.

Robert Full on engineering and evolution | Video on TED.com

Robert Full on engineering and evolution | Video on TED.com

Another great TED video you might like.

Theo Jansen creates new creatures | Video on TED.com

Theo Jansen creates new creatures | Video on TED.com

These five links are my favorite TED videos. This final link in my list is my favorite.
Theo Jansen wind powered robots are fantastic! Enjoy.

Golan Levin makes art that looks back at you | Video on TED.com

Golan Levin makes art that looks back at you | Video on TED.com

Golan Levin is a computer programmer that is also an artist.

Willard Wigan: Hold your breath for micro-sculpture | Video on TED.com

Willard Wigan: Hold your breath for micro-sculpture | Video on TED.com

Willard Wigan is my favorite sculptor. Pure fun!

Woody Norris invents amazing things | Video on TED.com

Woody Norris invents amazing things | Video on TED.com

Woody Norris is one of my favorite inventors. The way he projects sound is the way I hear sometimes.

Magnus Larsson: Turning dunes into architecture | Video on TED.com

Magnus Larsson: Turning dunes into architecture | Video on TED.com

Found this video on TED. I feel this is important work.

my little belief system

Does it matter what I believe?

Not really but I feel a need to add to the wandering unproven thought.

I believe in God. I believe in the Goddess. I believe there is no God or Goddess. I believe the Universe is random. I believe the One Soul is all genders and no gender at all. I believe in paradox.

I believe in everything and all those wonderful gaps called nothing.

I believe gravity is the tangle of all the orbits and spins within a universe rotating in all the directions approaching infinity. Magnetism is the counter spin to this.

I believe in invisible jet planes. That for short moments in time the B-2 Bomber can turn invisible to the naked eye.

I believe in time travel in death and the living universe. I believe we are all the same soul, that you and I are all the good and bad in the universe. We have been and will be each other.

You are God or the Goddess and I am the same in my own place in time and space. We are the center of the universe. Your belief system is your truth and this is my truth.

We are one soul or are we?

Born of Marrow page 1

This is the first page of a feature length script I wrote and a friend of mine (Ed Downs) rewrote.

For legal reasons this script will never be anything more than a script. I own the copyright to this script. I can not answer any comments why this script can't be made into a movie.

I experiment with this blog more often than I should. This experiment didn't work and I don't have the time to fix it right now. I'll come back to this post if and when I have the time.

I have decided to create a blog about Born of Marrow. I plan to post the entire script and storyboards.

How to Lucid Dream

You own your dreams they do not own you. You can stop yourself from having nightmares, night terrors, sleep walking and many other sleep and mind-body problems. I know this to be true because I have done this in my own life.

If you are having Nightmares or Night Terrors do not fear your sleep. The cure for those bad dreams are in your sleep. If you are a very rational person this process will be harder for you.
If you believe in only what is known you are at a disadvantage in Lucid Dreaming.

If you choose to Lucid Dream, you will rewiring your mind. Rewiring your mind using the tool of imagination is much safer than using drugs. I do not believe in illegal drugs. I have never been drunk in my life and I no longer go to parties because of the free floating drugs in the air.

Do not Lucid Dream under the influence of drugs. You must be Lucid first to have a Lucid Dream. This is my opinion and I believe a psychedelic experience is a very different animal.
I have never had an illegal psychedelic drug induced experience but I have had one legal one.

I was given gas for oral surgery and had a terrible psychedelic vision because of this gas.
I have also done many imagination experiments and one of those drug free experiments induced a three day psychedelic vision. This break down of the mind in fractal terms has nothing to do with Lucid Dreaming.

To Lucid Dream you must calm the mind. Quiet and darkness is best for this in most people but I have had Lucid Dreams in bright sunshine as I slept on the bow of a moving speed boat.

In the twilight between sleep and reality tell yourself what you want to dream and that you will know that you are dreaming when you see or hear a marker you've given yourself in your dream. Remember Lucid Dreaming is about building up your mind and not about breaking down your mind. Use Lucid Dreaming as a positive force in your life and not a negative one.

Lucid Dreaming is symbolic and the marker you use to tell yourself that you are in a dream should be a symbol that has meaning to you. I use Lucid Dreams to work on scripts and books in my dreams. I also use Lucid Dreams to fight my greatest enemy in my life, my anger.

My first marker is my Grand Daughter doing something magical and my second marker is my Grand Son climbing something that is impossibly high. I don't need these imagination tools but I have them in case my bad dreams return.

You just can't hope to have a Lucid Dream, you must believe you will have a Lucid Dream.

There are many books and articles on Lucid Dreaming and I suggest you look into these to expand your knowledge on the subject. I have been reading about Lucid Dreams for three days now. I accomplished all my goals I set for myself with Lucid Dreaming and feel it is time to read other views on the subject.

I started a new blog called the Lucid Dream Machine to record my controlled dreams.

When I Lucid Dream I don't try to control the whole dream as I will wake up if I do that.
My first dream marker was my son Mark Vollrath. Until my Grandchildren were born I used both my sons as dream markers. Mark is my six year dream marker and Micheal is my three year old dream marker.

With an ability to Lucid Dream you can put an end to your nightmares. After gaining some skill with Lucid Dreaming, think about your nightmare as you go to sleep. When you have that nightmare turn the thing you fear most into something silly. I like to turn monsters into flower petals in a strong wind and watch them blow away.

Dreams and other Things

Today I began to read on the internet about Lucid Dreaming. After reading several articles and one blog I decided to create my own blog about Lucid Dreaming (Lucid Dream Machine).

I will be removing the Followers feature from my five active blogs in the next couple of weeks.
I liked the original version of this feature but find the new version is ugly and hard to use.

I've changed my mind and will be keeping the Followers widget. 3/11/2009

Those that follow this blog will be getting an Art Flag and solo link on one of my other active blogs. New Art Flags will be appearing soon on my other blogs and I will begin posting more on those blogs.

I will be creating title art for my other blogs soon and I'm starting to over paint the world map for this blog. I started redesigning Europe yesterday and will begin to paint a lighter hue of blue in the oceans tonight. The world map is based on Buckminster Fuller's "one-world island in one world ocean." I added tectonic plates to this concept and grouped Antarctica with Australia.

The above scan is of an alien for a Sci-Fi Graphic Novel and is based on a Lucid Dream image.

Lucid Dreaming

I was taught Lucid Dreaming by my son Mark Vollrath when he was six years old in 1986.
He taught me how to fly in my dreams.

"Dad, do you ever fly in your dreams?"

"No, I've always wanted to but I've never had that type of dream."

"Oh Dad you've got to fly in your dreams it's the best. When you go to sleep think of me and I'll teach you how to fly in your dreams."

That night six year old Mark came to me in my dream with a ball of kite string.

"Hello Dad, this is a dream and I'm going to teach you to fly."

Mark tied the end the kite string around one of my shirt buttons and then ran away from me letting the ball of string unroll in his hand. A strong wind blew on me as Mark grabbed the string.
High in the air I rode the wind being pulled by a kite string in my young son's hands.

"Don't be scared Dad, I'm cutting the string. It's a dream and you can fly in it."

I flew like Superman and awoke from the dream laughing.

Years later my then wife left me and I began to have Night Terrors, Nightmares times ten.
The Night Terrors would always play out the same way, I would be having a peaceful dream and would be attacked by a hellish demon born out of the darkest corner of my imagination.

The worst Night Terror was a black orb that would rip me apart with four claw like legs. I would jump out of bed screaming looking for a knife to cut the creature from my chest. The bed room door was jammed and the creature in my mind was clinging to my torso, cutting deeper into my flesh. I was trying to get to the kitchen to get a knife to kill the creature when I heard a pounding on the bedroom door and woke up.

"Dad wake up you're having a nightmare. The monster you're seeing isn't real."

My son Mark had saved me from getting a knife and hurting myself in my sleep.

A few weeks later Mark told me about a book he had read on Lucid Dreaming.
I never had a Nightmare or Night Terror at home again using the knowledge Mark had given me.

I didn't learn how to defeat waking dreams (hallucinations) on long road trips until last year.

I simply turned any negative vision into a positive one.

In January of this year I woke myself from sleep paralysis for the first time using Lucid Dreaming.

Last night I put myself to sleep by using Lucid Dreaming, another first for me.

I have never read a book or article about Lucid Dreaming. Everything I know about Lucid Dreaming I've learned from my oldest son Mark and my own imagination.

My "Then Wife" called me the day after this post and told me she had been able to Lucid Dream for many years. I was married to her for 18 years and never knew this about her. As I'm writing this now I realize I never told her I cold Lucid Dream either. I wonder why we never talked about this?

Christmas Card

My son Micheal wanting to have his own Christmas Card like his big brother. Well his older brother as Micheal is stronger than both his brother and I put together. Anyway Micheal made this card on his computer.

Printing the card isn't necessary.

All Christmas cards should only be in cyberspace.

Save a lot of trees and spare no electrons.