Woolen Dreams

From a NYTimes blog, about an NYU/ITP project:

Cloud 1001 was a pillow that connects to a sensor that you wear on your finger as you sleep. By sensing your galvanic skin response, it knows when you are entering REM sleep and then plays a soft strain of music from a speaker woven into the pillow. The contraption is meant to facilitate “lucid dreaming,” in which the sleeper is aware of and influences the dream. “What’s it like?” I asked Daniel Liss, the creator. “I’ve never been more exhausted in my life,” he replied.

ITP projects are legendary as they are creative. See a list of ITP projects for yourself.

The invention of murder seems an interesting time-waster.

The River Knows

Years ago The Doors sang thus:

Free fall flow, river flow
On and on it goes
Breath under water 'till the end
Yes, the river knows

Please believe me
If you don't need me
I'm going, but I need a little time
I promised I would drown myself in mysticated wine

 

Today I remember the runes like the wind or the ebbing water of the river and the cold that hugged each pore with rum and heat.