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I wonder, I wonder
What you would do
If you had the power to dream at night
Any dream you wanted to dream
And you would of course be able to alter your time sense
And slip, say 75 years of subjective time
Into 8 hours of sleep
You would, I suppose
Start out by fulfilling all your wishes
You could design for yourself
What would be the most ecstatic life
Love affairs, banquets, dancing girls
Wonderful journeys, gardens
And then after a couple of months
Of this sort of thing, 75 years a night
You'd be getting a little taste for something different
And you would move over to an adventurous dimension
Where there was sudden dangers involved
And the thrill of dealing with dangers
And you could rescue princesses from dragons
And go on dangerous journeys
Make wonderful explosions and blow them up
Eventually get into contest with enemies
And after you've done that for some time
You'd think up a new wrinkle
To forget that you were dreaming
So you'd think it was all for real
And to be anxious about it
And then, because it'd be so great when you woke up
And then you'd say, well
Like children who dare each other on things
How far out could you get?
What could you take?
What dimension of being lost
Of abandonment of your power
What dimension of that could you stand?
You could ask yourself this 'cause you know you'd eventually wake up
And after you're gone on doing this, you see
For some time, you'd suddenly find yourselves
Sitting around in this room
With all your personal involvements, problems, etc
Talking with me
How do you know that's not what you're doing?
Could be
We push technology to its furthest possible development
And we had instead of a dial telephone on one's desk
A more complex system of buttons
And one touch would give you anything you wanted
Aladdin's lamp
You would eventually have to introduce a button labelled "surprise"
Because all perfectly known futures, as I pointed out, are past
They have happened
Virtually
It is only the true future is a surprise
The divine wisdom was
Above all to be compared with games
Because games are played for their own shake
And not for any sort of ulterior motive
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