[UA] Re: Oneiromancy

[Steven Howard]

In <23400493488062 at pfmagic.com>, on 05/05/99 
   at 04:27 PM, sp!ke <spike at memento-mori.com> said:

>Oneiromancy
>by Jared A. Sorensen

[snip]

>Generate a Major Charge: Beat the record for the longest period of time
>without sleep.  The current World Record is held by Randy Gardner who
>stayed awake for 264 hours (11 days) back in 1963.  Oneiromancers
>speculate that to break this record would be to raise the bar for future
>attempts to gain major charges...nobody has done it yet.

Lawrence Block wrote a series of novels about a man named Evan Tanner,
who'd had the sleep center of his brain destroyed and therefore never
slept.  Block says he came up with the idea based on an article about
people who have this condition in real life.  I honestly don't know if this
really happens or not.  But, if there really are such people, and one of
them were an oneiromancer (and it's not entirely unlikely that such a
person might become obsessed with dreams), wouldn't that person gather a
major charge every day?

On the flip side, if there really aren't any real-life Evan Tanners, does 
this mean that noone's generated a major oneiromantic charge since '63?

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Steven Howard                    
blore at ibm.net