26/05/2026

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I’ve been spending so much time with generated images on DDG that I started wondering why they weren’t influencing my dreams. Then it occurred to me that I could perform a kind of thought experiment — a sankalpa, the projection of true will into the subconscious — by telling myself that I would dream something connected to DDG.

The following is the dream I had on Tuesday, 26 May 2026, at 7 AM in Burnaby, British Columbia. I give the exact date and time because I was once involved for over ten years in worldwide experiments concerning the synchronicity of collective dreaming.

I’m walking down a hill. Along the road there’s an advertisement at a bus stop for a performance by an artist who seems like some tacky suburban housewife attempting to become Laurie Anderson.

I arrive at the event, but for some reason I can’t get inside. Still, I manage to glimpse what’s happening through the doorway.

There are around sixty people inside the barn-like building. The stage itself is empty. The audience is the performance.

Every participant has the same strange bio-electronic apparatus in front of them: a small jar filled with murky brown pond water, biologically active, with a square plastic basin mounted above it. Attached beneath the basin is something resembling a sensitive mousepad surface.

By moving a small object through the liquid inside the square bowl, each individual somehow joins the collective activity of the group. The entire audience appears interconnected through these living devices, as though the pond water itself were carrying the signal.

I become fascinated.

I step outside and suddenly realize that I already possess one of the devices myself — the small bottle of brown solution and the flat black interface.

I stand there holding it, trying to figure out how to assemble it properly so I can return inside and participate with the others.

Then I wake up.