My hallucinations....
Interesting heading, right? 
So anyway, I mentioned in an email I've been devouring alot of Phillip K. Dick lately. You might say I'm addicted, which is ironic given his many psyche elevating injestions. I was watching a DVD about him called the Gospel According to Phillip K. Dick in which friends and collegues were discussing his mystic awakening and a thing he called "the pink beam"
(which was, according to Dick himself, either a Soviet telepathy beam which he happened to be in the right state of mind to recieve, alien transmissions into his brain, or his personal hallucination) when I dozed off. Startled awake, I crawled to bed, fell promptly asleep, only to awaken a short time later feeling like a thousand bugs were crawling on me. I pulled myself together, fell back to sleep, only to start dreaming of
androids programmed to think they were people, oppressive government agencies, and some really amazing Greatful Dead music.
My wife tried to shake me awake, but apparently I muttered something about "not now I'm tripping" and fell back to sleep. Mind you I've never done a serious drug in my life. Hmmm...maybe I was channeling PKD 
Anyway, I think its time to move on to less disturbing literature. Maybe
something ligh like Lovecraft...
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Re:My hallucinations....
Umm... maybe this should go in the idea parking lot? :roll:
I'm not a complete idiot -- some parts are missing.
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[quote="eddycurrents"]Umm... maybe this should go in the idea parking lot? :roll:[/quote]
guess so. wasn't sure...thought i'd ramble somewhere :oops:
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Somehow that affect of Phillip Dick just doesn't surprise me. I've read a number of his works, some of the rivetting, some of them ridiculous.
Which ones have you read, Mike? There's been a new push to republish his works in the last few years, and so many are now easily acquirable.
Of the ones I've recently read: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep which is by far the best title of any book, in my opinion), Ubik, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, (all of these get the thumbs up)
The only real negative in my book is: A Scanner Darkly, and perhaps this is because I've never got into all that drug crap. Care to make any comments about these if you've read them, Mike? Or other's you might suggest. After "Scanner" I shied away from reading others.
Maybe this should be moved to Author discussion category... Ah well, I've never been one to stick with classifications and categories. Besides, Mike started it!
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[quote="camidon"]Somehow that affect of Phillip Dick just doesn't surprise me. I've read a number of his works, some of the rivetting, some of them ridiculous.
Which ones have you read, Mike? There's been a new push to republish his works in the last few years, and so many are now easily acquirable.
Of the ones I've recently read: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep which is by far the best title of any book, in my opinion), Ubik, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, (all of these get the thumbs up)
The only real negative in my book is: A Scanner Darkly, and perhaps this is because I've never got into all that drug crap. Care to make any comments about these if you've read them, Mike? Or other's you might suggest. After "Scanner" I shied away from reading others.
Maybe this should be moved to Author discussion category... Ah well, I've never been one to stick with classifications and categories. Besides, Mike started it! :o[/quote]
In the three week period where I was laid up due to surgery I read Ubik, Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch, Do Androids Dream Electric Sheep, A Scanner Darkly, read the "collected shorts" of Phillip K. Dick, which included such shorts as Minority Report, The Days of Perky Pat, Roog,
and dozens of others I can't name, and i watch a DVD called the Gospel According to Philip K. Dick, about the moment of gnosis enlightenment he may or may not have had while under the influence of certain drugs.
Palmer Eldritch was by far the best, to me, with Ubik a close second. His short stories are all great. I'm trying to decide now if I want to read his last three novels, whci are supposed to be semi autobiographical. Hmmm.
I think my problem was that I consumed so much, in such a short time, without allowing my brain time to digest and decipher:)
Channeling PKD
I can relate...after I've reading something really mind-altering, like PKD, or disturbing, like Harlan Ellison, I have bizarre dreams for several nights afterwards. After I read "I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream" I had computer-related nightmares for weeks...
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