I watched a very interesting documentary on dreams recently and learned that our minds mix in elements of real life and use the state as a sort of “consequence free” obstacle course. Some dreams are fantastic and allow us to innovate and discover a new approach, others put us face to face with challenges and would be killers to keep our reflexes tight. The interesting thing is, people who lose the ability to dream due to stroke or other accident can’t learn things as quickly or adapt as a result… It all makes sense right?

It is really amazing how our body and mind can take the things we are interested in or working on and allow us to master it, just by sleeping a little. Many times I have gone snowboarding or practiced a new dive at the pool then quit for several weeks or even a whole season only to find that my skills are better than when I last left off. The one dream success that I haven’t been able to master is getting air out of a half pipe on a skate board. I did it in dreams several times but also got decked out (landed on the deck) and have never really been able to soar on the real life side. I have also had several “work” style dreams where I mastered a job and saved money… invested wisely and became rich and renowned only to wake up and realize that I would have to do it all over again! It’s the journey not the destination that matters right? Yeah.

Today I went up to an area of San Francisco that I would nickname “little Mexico” because that’s what it looked like. People on every corner waving trying to jump on for a ride to some work site. Of course, I wasn’t there looking for workers, I was grabbing a MacBook Air that I found on Craigslist. Turned out to be a sweet deal and the guy who sold it to me (John) was really cool, he runs a business called BodyFi which is like a personal boot camp, they just got some exposure through Groupon and I guess all is good. The new laptop is sweet and super light, it will be my third Mac, still no iphone or ipod though.

After the the laptop session I decided to explore a little and drove up to Bernal Heights Park which was a new experience. I’ve never seen so many dogs! My foot is hurt right now so I’m wearing this support shoe but I was so excited to get the view I just climbed right up the hill and took it all in. Earlier in the day I had watched a show on History about the earthquakes in San Francisco (probably being aired because we’ve had two or three 4ish quakes recently). Just like the rest of America, California and San Francisco are in debt, in need of repair, and precariously positioned for a major ass kicking when oil starts to get expensive, when bridges and other infrastructure starts to decay and break (any day now) and when the “big one” finally does hit. According to the scientists on History the next big quake will be more disastrous than any of the others so far. Instead of learning from the bigger quakes they were downplayed and spun off as fires in order to get investors from New York and other locations to help rebuild. Well fuck, isn’t that just the story of our world?

On a positive note, I donated two guitars recently. One to a young man in India and one to an orphanage in Peru. Music is awesome. I hope I get even better at it tonight as I dream, I read that you can actually steer your dreams if you think about what you want before you go to sleep. I’m working on learning Come Home by Julia and the Doogans and tabbed out the chorus tonight:

Capo on fourth fret, regular tuning.

E—0–0–0
A—0–3–3
D—2–2–3
G—2–0–0–(hammer onto 2 to match song)
B—1–1–1
E—0–0–0