269: TCMP
| TCMP |
 Title text: A big obstacle in experimenting with the mind's dream-simulation-engine is holding onto the details as you wake up. With TCMP you can bring back any information you want. |
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Cueball did invent a new protocol called TCMP and trying to send messages from his dreams while he is is sleeping.
There were other jokes like this: April's fool in 1990 at RFC 1149
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- Cueball: Hey, help me test the Trans-Consciousness Messaging Protocol.
- Man: What's that?
- Cueball: I've been training myself to keep my fingers moving slightly as I fall asleep. So I can type from inside dreams.
- Cueball: I'm going to sleep now. My computer will relay my messages to you as I explore the dream world.
- [In the dream.]
- Cueball: So strange to think none of this is real. And yet I have this lifeline to the internet back home.
- Cueball: A chance to speak from one reality to another. I feel like Bell & Watson. I get to write the inaugural TCMP message. Let's see...
- [Outside.]
- Megan: "F1rst P0st!!"?
- Man: Great. He's jumped straight to trans-reality trolling.
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- F1rst p0st!!
- ...seriously, if I could remember, I would rather start with 'What Hath God Wrought!' That is far more solemn and dedicating... not just to Morse-sensee, either!Greyson (talk) 02:22, 28 September 2013 (UTC)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_LaBerge
- The second paragraph screams of this comic. I've been a big fan of the Lucidity Institute and their work since about 2010. 108.162.238.117 07:48, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
Yeah, I was gonna say "Didn't LaBerge do something like this irl?" and then I found this little citation: LaBerge, Stephen P., et al. "Lucid dreaming verified by volitional communication during REM sleep." Perceptual and motor skills 52.3 (1981): 727-732. --173.245.48.90 19:53, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
There is a community portal discussion of what to call Cueball and what to do in case with more than one Cueball. I have added this comic to the new Category:Multiple Cueballs. Since there is clearly one Cueball that is the protagonist and do the "talking" he should probably be listed as Cueball. Just made a note that the other guy also looks like Cueball --Kynde (talk) 20:49, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
It's real! https://lsdbase.org/2012/05/11/hello-dream-world/ 108.162.215.122 04:13, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
I feel like there might be a connection to the Choices pentalogy just before this comic - "Will I wake up thinking this was a dream?" 162.158.103.197 19:23, 1 May 2020 (UTC)
A recent lucid dream two-way communication experiment! https://www.vice.com/en/article/4admym/scientists-achieve-real-time-communication-with-lucid-dreamers-in-breakthrough
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