Yeah, the only question is How? 2002-09-24

All right, here's the dream I had last night:

Cryogenics. Currently there is no possible way cryogenics can work. (For anyone who doesn't know what cryogenics is, it's a freezing process to keep people alive, but frozen, until such time as they can be resuscitated (sp?).) This is because researchers continue to experiment with the freezing process, like they are doing something wrong and a little tweaking (of the process, not speed) will solve it. Here's the problem: You can't freeze the human body and then expect it to be alive when it's thawed. It's impossible. The body is made of what?97% water? What happens to water when it freezes? It expands. So all the water in your cells freezes, expands, and bursts the cell.

In my dream last night, I had a way of solving that problem.

All matter is merely energy condensed to a slow moving vibration. And we as a species have figured out how to manipulate energy in a variety of ways. So if our bodies are merely energy condensed to a slow moving vibration, there must be a certain speed at which the energy must vibrate in order to sustain life. Here's the thing, though: When we sleep, our body systems slow down. When we die, they stop. What if it were possible to slow down the systems of our body to the point of barely moving, and hold that energy in a constant state, say in a stasis field. The reanimation process would be simply that, speeding up the energy back to a life-sustaining vibration.

That was my dream last night. Philip K. Dick, eat your heart out.