[ WP ] Dreams have all been tests , and someone finally passed .

Rick was having trouble sleeping. He always had trouble sleeping. However, his life was great for two reasons. He had a trust fund, and he had fantastic dreams. He spent most of his time thrashing in his bed and at the same time flying through space in his dreams. He flew through the gaseous planets with their titanic storms. Tunneling through planets with geode crystal cores, and swimming through ocean planets. Dancing through solar flares, supernovas, Oort clouds, space storms and enormous collisions of astral bodies that on occasion left him sweaty and laughing upon awakening. He loved his life, and he had experimented with everything he could find that would change how his dreams formed. New kinds of hallucinogens, drugs, binaural music, psychic prompts, sleep companions, positions and spaces were always being tested in his enormous house in the Adirondacks. When his night sleep left him too well rested, Rick busted out the DMT, Psilocybin, Mescalin, and Acid. He did anything he could that would bring him back to flying through alternate realities. It happened in this way. 
 Rick was burrowing through a planet that never moved. Strange coincidence must have pinned it in place, because this planet was pinned in place by three suns that orbited around it. With loose soil and a thriving ecosystem, Rick found himself tunneling through and meeting earth dragons, moles the size of houses, and enough arthropods to make an average earth female scream herself awake. He loved it, and burrowed down, down, and down, where he found a hollow room with a nondescript man sitting crossed legged and floating in the center of the planet. The man spoke softly 
 `` Do you belong here?'' 
 Rick did n't have to think 
 `` Yes, however you do not. You're quite outside any context I've met sage inquisitors. Are you a god?'' 
 The man made no move or expression 
 `` As but a few in human history define. Why are you here?'' 
 Rick once again, did not have to think as the answer came 
 `` To explore and revel in the true and ineffable limits of the human experience. To ride on the rocket of man's rise to the meta-verse to unexplored ascension of the imagination.'' 
 The man smiled 
 `` So you believe that the collective subconscious of life will benefit as you sleep your life away? You have no real friends, no lovers, and your family has cast you off into the wilderness. Your life is devoid from the true pleasures of living. You have never tired your body from physical labor. You have never tired emotionally from working to sustain a relationship. You're whole life has been spent on a cushion floating in a place there is no way for you to share. Why do n't you wake up and do something with your life...... Wake Up!'' 
 Rick felt himself being torn from the dream, awareness of his bladder and his body started to subsume his mind. Rick's mind, however, was not to be controlled. The sphere of dirt that surrounded him and form of the man in front of him snapped back into perfect clarity. Rick grinned. His face started to enlarge. His grin grew grotesquely with his face as his bulging eyes stared down at the man, who did not move. Rick swallowed him and felt the body his mind inhabited blow apart. Then he was watching his body blasting apart....from the point of view of the man he'd just swallowed. 
 Rick gasped awake. 
 `` What the hell just happened?'' Crossed his mind with the sequence he'd just witnessed playing as he thought it. 
 `` I'm going to have to find that place again.'' He thought, and in his mind, he zoomed through the path in the stars until he was on, in, through the planet between the three stars and hovering in the space in the center of the planet. 
 Though Rick did not know it at the time, but he had become a living muse. He'd found one in the dreamscape in which they live. It is these beings that store, process, collect and disperse the collected experience of life in the universe into the many hues and shades of inspiration, intuition, and revelation that kept life progressing and ascending toward mastery of the universe. In manifesting such a being into the material plane the term `` game changer'' did not even come close 

