Down The Rabbit Hole

"So let's start with something a little easier: 'Where is the DreamPlane?' You get that one a lot - skeptical clients, friends and family who know what you do - and frankly, that's the easiest question to answer.

"See, everyone has an answer that they know is wrong.  But we use it anyway, like badly photocopied business card.  Some bit of random nonsense; something deep, mysterious, and mystical sounding.  The kind of fairytale garbage people have come to expect, no thanks to Tinsel Town.

"Me? Depends.  Depends on who's asking and how my day has been going.  But if I'm not telling 'em to stick their head in a rabbit hole, I'll usually go with something like, 'It's right there.'  Throw in a vague sort of hand gesture - it's important, people like that.  'That place there, right behind your mind that you can't ever seem to see, no matter how many clever mirrors you got set up.  But sometimes, before you're really awake, you can just catch a glimpse of it out of the corner of your eye.  Maybe.  And that's it - right there.'

"You believe that shit? 'Cause I sure don't.  But it's pretty, so I use it.  Sometimes an explanation gets popular enough and you see it make rounds with the Weavers, like a silly cat meme or an inside joke.  Of course, these things have their own trends, and what's in or out of fashion changes from time to time.

"But to tell you the truth, like I said, they don't come much easier.  Ain't nothing easier than 'no one knows.' It's a little like asking where 'The Internet' is.  Sure you can spin some technical jumbo about servers and fiber optic cables - that's the internet.  But The Internet? That always-on digital world? What else can you say but everywhere and nowhere?

"And that's just a fancy way of saying, 'Haven't got a fucking clue chum.'

Introductions

"You want to know about the DreamPlane?  Alright.

"The first thing to know is, there are cats all goddamn over the place.  There's dogs too; pretty much any animal smarter than a fish can dream.  They don't always dream though, I guess, and they aren't always as obvious.  But cats man; they sleep three quarters the day, and they are all over the world.  No matter where you are, at any given time, there are millions of cats sleeping and dreaming.  Dreaming about running.  Dreaming about pouncing.  Dreaming about delicious, four legged, winged, chicken-tuna-mice things.  It's the easiest way to know for certain you are in the Dream Plane and not the Ordinary.

"But maybe that's not what you had in mind."