by Don Mittan

Created on: June 21, 2009   Last Updated: June 22, 2009

The Dream Weaver

Super powers: if you could pick your super power, what would it be? I think absolute telekinesis; the ability to move any object by thought at any distance or mass. But, that's too easy. What if your power were less obvious; say the ability to effect or create dreams in anyone you wanted to. Wow! You really could change the world. just imagine for a moment that you wanted world peace; you could insert a dream into the minds of world leaders for as long as it takes to influence them that direction. Or, you could torment someone with insidious nightmares till they gave up, confessed to a crime, surrendered; whatever.

I've had dreams that evoked emotion that effected me for days afterwards; haven't you? Psychologists say that dreams have meaning. It's really your sub-conscious mind trying to communicate with the conscious mind. Neither one speaks the same language, so the sub-conscious uses images and situations to relay a meaning. We just don't get it most of the time. If you were to manipulate a person's dreams, it's hard to say how that would effect their sanity.

I know it's not as dramatic as superman flying around and hurdling large objects into space, but it would certainly be fun and probably, a little fiendish. You could make you enemy dream they were falling off a high cliff onto jagged rocks, night after night. The repetitive dream is very disconcerting. Or, maybe have them walking naked into the Vatican and humping the Pope's leg. Have them believe they were drowning night after night. Pretty soon you could insert a dream that induces them to do what you want. Or simply harassing them nightly until they did your will. Politicians would be a prime target for me. I'd drive them bonkers till the idiots would have to resign. We wouldn't need term limits.

You could also disrupt their sleep till they were walking around in a daze, then insert lucid dreams into their heads as they worked half-asleep on the job. Their peers would probably have them committed to a sanitarium. Imagine the fun you could have:

I can just hear Nancy Pelosi saying: "I'm convinced that the CIA lied to my rabbit. I mean, uh, excuse me, let me start over. Leon Panetta makes really good bread. Uh, I mean.....he, uhm, gets paid well. I believe that Congress should hold hearings into the batter, I mean matter. I'm wearing a thong. Thank you."

Okay, it may not be that ethical a power and the temptations to use it, well just too much.

The Pope: "It is the responsibility of all Christians to masturbate, I mean, procreate according to God's will. Therefore I am reasserting the ban on contradiction and flatulation, er uh, copulation for any other raisin. Go in peace and there's a bomb in the building."

What if you had the Harry Reid dream about having sex every night with Susan Boyle while singing God Bless America on national TV.

But of course, you'd be having so much fun you'd never get around to rescuing people or changing the world for the better.

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