(July 31, 2014 at 10:54 am)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: This was hard though because it was something I would've given anything for and of felt so real. Course I also had a dream of a car driving itself onceThe thing for me is that no matter how unusual the dream is, my mind accepts that it's perfectly natural. I used to have dreams where I would fly or levitate or jump from long heights. In some of them I would start to levitate by simply "stepping into" the air, as if there was a stairway. It seemed completely normal.
One strange one was when I was a child. The only part I remember was that I was sitting in an adult's lap and was conversing with some small, disembodied, animated doll head (no doubt from some horror film I'd seen). All of a sudden, it leapt at me and =poof!= I was awake. For all I knew, I'd simply awakened with a start and nothing else. Then I noticed my older sister standing at the side of the bed with a terrified expression on her face, and my parents rushing into the room in full "WHAT THE HELL JUST HAPPENED" mode.
Turns out that just as my dream was ending, my sister had placed her hand on my chest to wake me for school. When she did this, I let out a loud, long, wild shriek that probably sounded like someone had stepped on a banshee's tail. For whatever reason, I was utterly unaware of having done it, but it livened up the morning for everyone else.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
