Yin Yang

The yin yang symbol is said to represent male and female, light and dark, good and evil, all kinds of things....hmmph....near as I can tell, it represents day and night, the bulging parts represent longer nights, longer days, respectively; the 'tails', shorter nights and days; and being round, it is the seasons, the year, and the two dots represent the moon, light of nights, and sun, light of days...most ancient iconographs have something to do with the calendar and seasons...lemesee if this is out there on the web...brb...well, no, wiki's take doesn't mention anything like this, but it does mention that symbols like this are in old Celtic and Roman decoration, where most everything is calander related!...anyway, I think there was just an earthquake...brb....five minutes ago!...in the Sierra NW of Reno..5.2....anyway. I tried to lay out my thinking on taoism and dreams with friend, who had just seen the latest harry potter in 3d, and so was receptive, a bit....it's like this: reality is ruled by physical laws, which science has sorted out over time, and by their own admission, scientists have discovered and explained most everything, in repect to how things happen....the why of things science doesn't touch, or I!...inside one's head is another reality ruled by different laws...of late, the invention of computers has led to comparisons to how our thoughts, feelings, dreams, work, with how a computer works....now, one learning to fly an airliner, or a space shuttle, will spend a lot of time in a flight simulator before going up in a real plane or space ship...the flight simulator, with computer, can mimic reality, the plane or spaceship in flight, is in reality....and the curious thing, is that the computer reality is mutable, changeable, in ways that reality isn't...a computer can do what ever it's programmer dream up!!....now, when I play wow, my avatar is in a computer world...it borrows from reality, but it isn't real...it is what the computer programmers made it to be, and they gave it the logic and laws the game abides by....the wow world can be capricous...reality, nature, can't....but the wow world I'm seeing as a simulation, being in the game like being in a simulator, of dreams and dreaming....I think that's why my dreams have been so taken with the game...I woke up in the middle of the night, couldn't sleep, and played wow until daylight, and when I closed my eyes to sleep, I was seeing my avatar running, and still adventuring....a kinda after image experince, like feeling like still on a ship after stepping onto solid land!....I've never given much thought to examining or exploring my dreams, making a close study...I could see no way in, so  to speak...but I told my friend, 'I dont think much of politics, though everything I do has some connection.'....I'm not a politician, I wanted to say!  And I'm not a dreamer, in the tao sense.  But, but, with wow seen as a dream simulator, I have found 'a way in'....playing the game, it's like I'm learning skills to 'play' my dreams...there's a movie kinda like this, The Last Starfighter.....anywayanyway, a dream:

I'm at the edge of a large canal full of water, 'at the wrong time of season, Fall', it's explained, and it's actually a river that has been channeled, 'the san juaquin'...and there's a smaller canal coming towards me into the canal....so I'm like a the top of a T....and I have a snag branch, and I'm trying to shovel mud out of the canal, but the branch, which is like a foot in diameter and long!, doesn't come up with much mud...the scene changes, and the canal has lowered to little more than a mud puddle, and there's a car in the mud, and lots of debris, and the car owners want to get in their car, but the debris is in the way, and they are blaming me for all this...and I think, 'wait, where did the car come from?, where did the water go?', and 'what's all this debris?', and 'it's not my fault'...questiions which of course wake me up....dreams dont like questions!

Another dream, with wow influence, just an image...a building like the ones by the scarlet cathedral, like at dusk and dark, with a large tree in front, the leaves all bright and gold with fall color...

A troubling thought, is that our imaginations, which reside in  'computer reality', try to deal with reality and its different laws with the expectation that reality will behave like a dream....and there are those who know this, and will manipulate.... 'those' being politicians...  'yes, like in germany of the 1930's'...'yes'....