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I tend to have more interesting dreams when I'm off visiting family. I think it's because I make the decision not to spend the valuable time checking email or really doing anything on the computer, and I have less stress (and deeper sleep) as a result. Anyway, while visiting the southern GDDoD contingent, I had a dream in which I set out to vanquish a dragon with the help of a wizard and his wife who lived in a trailer. The wizard reminded me, oddly, of Telemain. Even though he's not a wizard.*

You know a sci-fi power that would be more frightening than telepathy? Precognition. By this, I mean a practical precognition, where the person sees what is going to happen to him before it does, continuously.

"Remembering" things even a minute before they happen would make the person foolish to even imagine he had free will -- if he had the free will to imagine (or not) as he chose. Yet the only thing that gives us this concept is that one minute that isn't shifted to the future. One minute of memory after what we already have, and the philosophy of free will is out like a light.

Even odder is the thought that these precognitive people could, theoretically, exist among us --trapped by their own memories into not speaking a word of their talent. Indeed, even people with their entire memories flopped upside-down could exist. Though their experience living time backwards would be alien to ours, it could also be completely undetectable.

Reality check. *I highly recommend the series in which he appears.