{"id":13733,"date":"2011-06-11T10:37:40","date_gmt":"2011-06-11T17:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2011\/06\/11\/13733.html"},"modified":"2011-06-11T10:37:40","modified_gmt":"2011-06-11T17:37:40","slug":"the-portal-in-the-basement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2011\/06\/11\/the-portal-in-the-basement\/","title":{"rendered":"The portal in the basement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I think it was the first night of WisCon when I had this dream:<\/p>\n<p>Mary Anne and I (and someone else, I forget who) were visiting Debbie and Alan, and we wandered down into their basement. And it turned out they had a secret time portal there.<\/p>\n<p>The portal led back to an idyllic prehistoric human community. (On waking up, I realized that the prehistoric humans were caucasian, and dressed in sort of generic-faux-medieval-European leather tunics. My subconscious apparently doesn't know much about prehistory.) We went through the portal and chatted with the friendly locals. In English, iIrc.<\/p>\n<p>There was also something about telepathic contact with the worldwide community of peaceful idyllic prehistoric white people, but I disremember the details.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the two things I was most amused by later, and the main reasons I'm posting this, were these:<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li>There were also aliens. It turned out that someone had taken powerful radio and\/or TV transmitters into the distant past to broadcast 20th\/21st-century media to the stars (even in the dream, this didn't sound to me like something Debbie and Alan would do). The idea was that if aliens live a couple thousand light years away, it makes sense to send signals to them from the past, so that we don't have to wait a few thousand years from today for them to respond and\/or come visit.<\/li>\n  <li>When I woke up, my first thought was that I should write up this dream and post it as a blog entry. My second thought was something like: &ldquo;Wait, no, maybe I shouldn't, because if Debbie and Alan really do have a secret time portal in their basement, then they might be upset that I told people about it.&rdquo;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(I checked with Debbie later, and she assured me that they don't actually have a secret time portal in their basement. I believe her. But then again, I might be just telling y'all that to make you <em>think<\/em> there's no portal.)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think it was the first night of WisCon when I had this dream: Mary Anne and I (and someone&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dreams"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}