"The Brain is—wider than the Sky—"
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It was a hard day at the office. That nice dinner and relaxing bath was just what the doctor ordered. Retiring to the bedroom, you climb into bed and pull the covers up to your shoulders. You glance over at the nightstand. The clock reads 11:41 P.M. You then close your eyes; and within five minutes you’re gone.
A noise outside rouses you from your slumber. It’s now 2:13 and the wind is really picking up. Thinking it’s just a summer storm, you slowly fall back asleep.
When you next wake, only 15 minutes later, there are small, 4-foot-tall creatures in your bedroom. They’re gray, naked, and have huge, almond-shaped eyes. You lie in the bed frozen. You try to speak but nothing comes out. One of them approaches you and thrusts a piece of paper into your hand. Slowly you manage to lift your arm and hold the paper in front of your face. "Helluva time to be audited," you think to yourself. You always knew the IRS would find you one day.
But as you look at the paper, you realize that this isn’t about that $80,000 in unreported income. The top of the paper reads, in big, bold letters: Everything I Think I See—Part 3: Of Mind and Matter.
It’s the final part of that Suite101 article you’ve been waiting for. Shouldn’t that have been by direct e-mail delivery to your desktop? Server must be down. Well, however it got to you, it’s here. Intrigued, the creatures abandon their abduction plans and all gather around the bed as you begin to read…
AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT
In parts one and two of "Everything I Think I See," we examined quantum theory and its effects on our world and the TV show Star Trek. In part three, we are going to leave all of that behind and turn our attention to another way in which we may create our own reality. This is a journey not into the world of subatomic particles and interstellar distances, but into the mind.
There are several paranormal phenomena that have become an important part of late 20th-century culture. Among these are UFOs and alien abductions. Are these things real, or do we create them in our mind, projecting what we want to see into a reality that’s all our own?
FIRE FROM THE SKY
There’s nothing new about unidentified flying objects in the annals of
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