the timboucher experience

I had the COOLEST super long dream this morning about going to “spy school.” I no longer remember clearly all the details, but it’s the second time in a few days where I’ve had one of those dreams you can get back into the storyline of no matter how many times you wake up. The focus of the dream had to do with this weird red shiny 3D text avatar that I kept envisioning of the words “PATENT PENDING” which somehow were a symbol of the “new me” that I was training or creating or something.

The expressions “patent pending” (sometimes abbreviated by “pat. pend.” or “pat. pending”) or “patent applied for” refer to a warning that inventors are entitled to use in reference to their product or process once a patent application has been filed, but prior to the patent being issued or the application abandoned. The marking serves to notify potential infringers who would copy the invention that they may be liable for damages (including back-dated royalties), seizure, and injunction once a patent is issued.

There was one really involved part where I sought out this wise old Asian man who lived near the top of this mountain. He became sort of my guru for a minute and his main instruction was simply to make me climb the rest of the way up the mountain by myself. This was an unusually tall and magical mountain, of course, and there was nobody up at the top and it was all icy and super dangerous. But I eventually acclimatized to it and did whatever I needed to do on the top of the mountain. I think this mountain top is where I first got hold of the “PATENT PENDING” symbol or whatever the hell it was. The point, I think, had to do with only loosely holding onto images of myself as I transform and pass through time: and of fixing myself to some future identity I can’t yet envision as opposed to clinging to the past.

Another part of “spy school” had to do with being in this old monastery or something (I guess belonging to Asian dude), which was built into the cliff face, overlooking some water. I had to sneak through this whole place and uncover all these cool old hidden secret passages and locate something - some mystery or secret that was hidden within the bowels of this place. And there were many points during which I had to climb out windows, shimmy along narrow edges of the building, haul myself up over things and pass in the dark over narrow ropes and things like that. And I was all the while competing against other monks or students or something to find this prize. I eventually found it, but whatever it was proved to be a metaphor instead of a tangible thing: much like my experience at the top of the mountain, and as soon as I found it, I increased in wisdom.

There was also some part with a bunch of boats and then these two long documentaries I was supposed to watch which were loosely based on the life of my old landlord in Seattle who I went sailing with in real life. And that’s about all I can remember.

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