Dream: 'The Digital Gift', by dreambat aug 21, 1998 I'm at a lecture, it may even be a sermon, but feels more casual than a church. There do seem to be pews. A few seats/rows ahead of me is an ex-friend I haven't spoken with in years after he backed out of a project, telling me he no longer liked my attitude. He stands up and our eyes meet. I say "Hello, Fred." He stiffly says hello as he gets something out of his pocket, a floppy disk. Its an old large floppy, not quite as large as the 5 1/4 but almost and soft. I take the floppy and say thanks, he stiffy sits down next to a woman who is with him, acting like this greeting and exchange was really hard for him to do. I feel, in the dream, that he is stiff because he is trying to practice one of his self-consciousness techniques and be conscious of what he is doing. I think to myself, again in the dream, it would be more personable if he would allow his attention to be on something other than himself for just a moment. I turn to a friend sitting next to me that Fred and I have in common. I tell John "This is one of the problems with people who focus too much on Unity Consciousness, they lose the ability to hold and act out of places where unity has collapsed and there is tension." I think to myself, in the dream, how cheap it was of him to give me old floppy disks and that they probably have programs on them that are too old to even use. dreambat