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It’s a quiet Sunday morning. Coffee in hand, cat would be asleep in the chair beside me if I had one, and I decided to put the AI to work. Not as a toy, not as a gadget — but as a partner in real thought. Four hours later, I looked back and realized just how much ground we had covered. Here’s the punch list.

The big one? We laid the foundation for two upcoming Peoplenomics articles.

• The first was a deep exploration of Co-Dreaming leading into Co-Dying — the possibility that death may not be a solitary crossing, but a shared transition into the Realms. Out of my dreamwork, family history, and research, we built a framework for couples to think about preparing together, even setting rendezvous points beyond death.

• The second grew out of the Deepening Work Protocol — a practical program couples can use right now to strengthen their bond at the soul level. We sketched daily, weekly, and monthly exercises for relationship “workouts” that are likely to build capacity for co-dreaming and, eventually, coordinated crossing.

Maybe it will be a single paper for Peoplenomics.com over Labor Day – you know, some grist for the brain during downtime.

Then we stepped up into practical scripting and protocols.

• We wrote out guided scripts couples can actually use for deepening, for dream-sharing, and even for handling the hardest part — what to do when one partner dies first. We treated it like flight instructions: clear, step-by-step, adaptable to both “whole self” partners and those under constraints (like dementia or pain medication). That adaptability is key.

From there, we went wide into cultural archetypes.

• I asked about the long-standing motif of the Lover’s Leap. The AI mapped out how that myth has traveled across cultures and media for centuries — as both a tragic and transcendent image of couples refusing to be separated. Perfect material for weaving into the broader narrative.

And we closed by building a grand framing section.

• A final synthesis about how domain work, Realms, myth, and daily practice all interlock — like mapping a new continent of human potential.

And on top of it all? We still managed to push forward on the advanced math paper that started this whole thread of thinking. That piece — about the missing domain of non-mathematical problem solving — now has the bones of a real academic paper, with citations, methods, and a clear place in the lineage of my earlier work.

On the Ai side, there was a lot of tasking – summarized highlights of older Peoplenomics papers – some going back more than 20-years. Then, on top of that, pull out concept summaries from two of the books I’ve written.  Stuff I could do myself (the human) but it’s so much easier to task and paste, only to get the answers in a minute that would have gobbled up 2-hours (or more) of human time – not to mention a second Thermos of coffee.

All told, that’s one Sunday morning session. Coffee, silence, a few keystrokes — and out of it came not just notes, but structured drafts for multiple subscriber reports, a serious academic math paper, and a new layer of original domain and Realm theory expansion.

That’s the point I keep trying to drive home: if you use AI as a co-thinker, you can condense weeks of work into hours. You can leapfrog past the usual mental ruts and get right to the substance. It’s not about gimmicks. It’s about discipline and direction.

I know from experience that using Brain Amplifiers is an old theme around here – but when you’re young, you haven’t seen enough change roll through your life to reach out, grab it, and put it into practice.

The first Big Change for me was when – 1967, Seattle University, I was kicked out of an electrical engineering course for failing to use that yellow K&E slide rule.  I had already been working for over a year as an FCC licensed first class radiotelephone operator of commercial broadcast stations.  A new $67 dollar (tiny LED) calculator gave me not only faster answers but several more decimal points than the fine interpolation stuff the profs were nattering-on about.  Screw ’em – I dropped out.

Then the Big Change when in 1983 I was doing an airline turnaround in the Caribbean.  For over a YEAR, I was the only guy flying daily from Miami down to Gradn Cayman with an HP-110C laptop.  Today?  Who doesn’t have a device when flying>?  But that laptop? Let me model an entire small airline operation in 4 countries with as many currencies, helped to price charter opportunities for big players like Club Med and turned the airline into a profit center instead of a financial sink hole.

Voice?  At Microperipheral Corp when I got back to the PNW I was the first human to utter those terrible words “Please hold, I have an important call for this number…”

We did the first ever broadcast of computer data over radio as one of my “projects” at KMPS in 1982, as well.  So yeah – I like “the Edge.”  Therein is today’s take-away.

This is how you get the most out of AI: sit down with purpose, bring the raw material only you have, and let the tool accelerate the process. Drive it hard, stay in the seat, and you’ll be amazed how much real progress can happen in a single morning.

A lot of people I know are afraid of Ai – they see its coming sentience as a direct thresat to human-scale autonomy.  But they misss the point.  Computers are for now domain bound.  Which means they can’t follow us where the sould can go.  That’s the very human difference.

I respect people having concerns, sure. I see what utter shit social media has become and how it has trained a whole culture of app-beater apes to drool into the night with no destinations in sight.

But that isn’t the Power User.  Nope.  This is like having one of the first chainsaws in a virgin forest of high payoff hardwoods.

Have at it!

(But, if you really love your long-hand, long division problems, sit back and reflect how far that got humans and over what length of time…)

Rest of us are chsanging the future while you’re getting behind…

~Anti-Dave

Notes from a working oneironaut (George/Dave)

Preface

I live two distinct lives. One is this waking circus—with bad farts, bad traffic, high taxes, and people who mistake their ambition for authority. The other life occupies a full third of every day: I travel the dream realms. Most folks flatten that second life into “dreams” or, worse, “daydreams.” That’s like calling blueprints and buildings the same thing. What follows is a field guide to tell usual dreams from Domains—the places that are not just stories running in my head but other rule‑sets you can learn, map, and revisit.

What I Mean by Oneironaut

“Oneironaut” isn’t poetry. It’s a work role: I navigate, test, and document nocturnal environments. I go back to the same locations, verify their rules, carry intentions in and results out. If you only remember chaos, that’s fine; I did too. With practice, patterns emerge.

The Spectrum: Usual Dreams → IMAX Dreams → Domains

Usual dreams. Fragmentary scenes, jump cuts, thin senses, memory fog, story logic that collapses when touched. Think: rehearsal, cleanup, psychic composting. Useful, but local.

IMAX dreams. High‑fidelity runs: full color, consistent lighting, coherent soundstage, strong scent and touch, and—importantly—continuity. You wake with the taste of the air still in your mouth. IMAX dreams are your on‑ramp. When sensory richness and continuity climb, you’re nearing a Domain.

Domains. Environments with stable, testable rules that are not Earth‑standard. Gravity’s a hair off. Heat behaves oddly. Time moves in bursts. Language bends. And yet within those rules, the world is consistent. You can revisit, learn the seams, and bring back maps.  Two weeks there is an hour or two here in Waking.

A Field Note: The Marina with Snow in the Trees

We (same wife then and now—consistency matters) were on a large boat, maybe sixty‑five feet, tied in a marina. It was warm. Sun on my face said ~85°F. I raised my hand and the tips of my fingers cooled—not a breeze, a few degrees of drop. I forced myself to look up. Overhanging trees wore a canopy of snow, crusted into the leaves. I stepped onto the floating pier and checked the water. Bathtub warm.

Three variables—air warm, snow present, water hot—coexisted stably. In a mere dream, contradictions wobble and collapse when you attend to them. In a Domain, contradictions are rules you haven’t learned yet. There, heat didn’t distribute like it does here; overhead strata could preserve snow while radiant water stayed hot. I didn’t resolve it. I just marked the rule: thermal stratification differs in this place. That’s Domain thinking.

How to Tell You’ve Crossed Into a Domain

• Sensory fidelity. Vision, sound, touch, smell, temperature, proprioception—all are live and in sync. One or two vivid channels can be a usual dream; five‑plus channels signals a Domain.
• Continuity and return. You can go back. Landmarks recur. People remember you. Your clothes stay as you left them. That’s not narrative luck; it’s place‑memory.
• Physics nudge. Gravity, inertia, heat, light, and fluids behave consistently but differently. Test it (see below). If the oddity holds across attention shifts, you’re not in Kansas.
• Language and logic. Idioms carry new shades; math feels “slanted”; maps fold. It’s not nonsense; it’s different axiom sets.
• Agency without omnipotence. You can act and learn, but not “will” anything. If wish grants instantly, you’re likely in a lucid dream sandbox, not a Domain.

Stabilize First, Then Test

The first skill is not flying. It’s not flinching. When you suspect a Domain:

• Breathe and orient. Name three anchors: a sound, a texture, a smell. This buys you minutes.
• Run two physics tests.
  1. Drop test: let an object fall twice from the same height. Compare time and bounce.
  2. Thermal test: move hand between shadow and sun; note gradient and speed.
• Note one social rule. Try a greeting. Does hierarchy live in tone, posture, objects? This keeps you from getting cute and getting ejected.

Mapping a Domain (Fast and Dirty)

You don’t need a cartographer’s bench. You need a repeatable kit.

• Cardinal feel. Turn slowly and decide which direction “pulls” like north. Some Domains have a magnetic favor; some have none. Either way is a data point.
• Clocking time. Count while watching a drift—smoke, clouds, waves. Does your count tie to observable cycles or slip? If time runs in bursts, you can plan around the bursts.
• Rule log. After waking, write three lines only: a landmark, a rule, a person. Long journaling can smear recall; a crisp triad hardens it.
• Re‑entry beacons. Use entry cues (music, scent, a phrase) before sleep. Over weeks, some cues tend to route you to the same Domain.

Common False Positives

• Lucid sandbox. You awaken in a usual dream and become lucid. The world bends to will. Entertaining, but the rules are yours, not the place’s.
• IMAX but local. High resolution, but physics matches Earth and continuity ends at waking. Great cinema; still a usual dream.
• Blend zones. You carry an Earth object that works there until scrutiny collapses it. That’s your mind bridging a seam. Don’t force it; observe what replaces it.

Practice That Actually Works

• Sleep like an engineer. Fixed window, cool room, no late sugar. Garbage in, garbage out.
• Wake‑back‑to‑bed. Wake after ~5.5 hours, lights low for 10–15 minutes, then back down with an entry cue. This bumps recall and Domain access.
• Intention is a scalpel. A single sentence before sleep: “Return to the marina; test heat stratification.” Vague wishes produce vague tours.
• Journal lean. Three lines on waking (landmark, rule, person). Add a date, a confidence score (1–5), and any Earth correlations (weather, mood, EM clutter) only after the core note is down.

Etiquette (Don’t Be That Tourist)

• Observe before acting. Places have owners, even if the owners are customs.
• No colonizing. You are not there to extract trophies or convert souls. You are there to learn and, if welcome, to help.
• Pay attention to price. If your visits leave you foggy, short‑fused, or depleted, step back. Some Domains charge fees you can’t afford.

Why Any of This Matters

If Domains are real (in the operational sense—learnable, revisitable, rule‑stable), then “dream life” is not private fiction; it’s fieldwork. You can bring back useful constraints and ideas. You can also bring back humility: Earth rules are just one parameter set. The Presence that threads all this seems to care less about our flags and more about whether we can learn without blowing things up—here or elsewhere.

A Tiny Toolkit (Pocket Card)

• Suspect a Domain? Anchor 3 senses → run drop + thermal tests → note 1 social rule.
• After waking: Landmark + Rule + Person (3 lines) → confidence (1–5) → plan a single test for next visit.
• Over weeks: Track recurring places → list rules per place → build a Domain passport (one page per world).

Closing

People will tell you dreams are just your brain power‑washing the day. Sometimes—sure. But sometimes you’re in a marina where the sun is hot, the water is hotter, and the trees above you are holding snow. Inside that mismatch is the quiet click of a different cosmos. If you can keep your head, breathe, test, and map, you’ll discover you’re not just dreaming. You’re traveling. And if you can remember what you’ve learned when you wake up here—back among the traffic and the taxes—you might even make this world run a little better.

~Anti-Dave