My Way of Naming the Linux Distributions

Friday, September 30, 2011
My Way of Naming the Linux Distributions
 

Now that I have finished scoring cross section of the Linux Distributions, to render and make my future classification easy, I have decided to change from the Weight Category based on Apes Family, (simply to spare the abuse of this Family especially the common monkeys-who venture into the city looking for food and poisoned by some citizens) and used an alternative  method based on the distribution's functionality.
 

This will certainly create lot of flames (now that the war is over I do not mind the urban flames not forest fire) but I got to get on with my naming strategy.

1. NuKe Variety
I wanted to name it nude but NuKe is OK since most of us  in this country pronounce NuKE as Nude anyway.
These are bare bone distributions almost stripped of all the attire but the skin is beautiful as in fish and birds, the nude or the NuKe is barely visible.
 

The core utilities based on Slackware is the Prototype.
They do not have X-Windows
Unity
Arch
Gentoo
Debian fall into this category.
These are for the developers and developers are generally invincible.

2. Second category is BiKi(Ni) and only clad and covered in G-string sized X-windows.
4mLinux
Tiny Core
Core Linux
Slitaz
They fit in a Mini CDs.
These are for the old school type of Linux users not worried about what others do, inherently lazy and nobody knows they do exist.
They are in the minority.

3. LaiKa, another typical Sri-Lankan wrong pronunciation. 
Like NuKe it sounds Linux.
The name comes from the LaiKa, the dog that was sacrificed in space by Russian.
These distributions are one's close friend like a dog and a work slave.
These are the workhorse type of of distributions and naming any one of them as a Prototype is gross injustice to ones not mentioned. 
Majority of the Linux distributions fall into this category.
These remain active as long as there are followers in the community and sometimes suddenly disappear after stint.

4. Fourth is the carnival type dressed in Ragtags (Ragtag Variety), as  seen dressed up in Brazilian street carnival from almost nothing to exotic.
Puppy
PCLinuxFullmonty
Knoppix
Ultimate Linux
Artistix
Uberstudent
Poseidon
Apodio
Musix
Live Linux Gamers  and many more fall into this group.

They are very special that is why they dress differently in street or bazaar carnivals.
They are generally task based like games, arts or science.

5. Fifth, I call the King Con (con as in a lie) Type, almost non-existent in the Linux Community but when the King or the President of a country incarcerate a developer in a palace or presidential house requesting them for top security for the palace and their kith and kin to hide all the unpleasant  details.
But in actual fact it is something like SliTaz and lot of Cookies added as long as the developers is incarcerated and deprived from his normal developmental activity.

All kings think bigger is always better and their is no other thinking in them.

LPS that comes from DOD is one of them which can be loaded with security piping that no information either gets in or gets out.

This is a nightmare distribution for true Linux developers. 

Making Customized Linux Distributions "On the Go" and "In the Cloud"

 Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Making Customized Linux Distributions "On the Go" and "In the Cloud"
 

The idea I am proposing is not anything original.
It is something done before on a trial basis.
 

At least for the record Suse has done it by way of Suse Studio.
My idea is to support the concept but not Suse.

My concept is not bound to one Unix/Linux derivative.
It is the point where all the Linux Utilities could handshake (UBUNTU LOGO).
If one is a commercial Linux Enterprise like Redhat or Suse  they cannot enact what I am going to state.

This is the only way we can give our due respect to Richard Stallman and Linus Torvald.

This is an extension of FOSS philosophy and to save Developers who come from various background to unite in force and specially to save their precious time.
Like O.L.P.S, the commercial enterprises like Oracle who has a head start in database warehousing might try to kill this idea.
As a side effect my blogsite may be attacked.
The visitors who were less than 24 per day have gone up suddenly and it looks like some zombie type of attack was engineered by somebody  out there but until now it did not materialize.
There are Cyber-terrorist, I cal them, out there.

Concept is simple
1. Linux Kernel/s is/are housed in the cloud with on house bug fixing.

2. Live Script is hosted on another cloud with various way to enhance its versatility. 
For example language support for particular language.
It should evolve like the Universal GRUB.

3. X-windows are housed as cloud utilities from Fluxbox to LXDE to Unity to New Gnome.

4. All repositories need to take the tags out of their own distributions (their tagging can be kept in their own clouds) and host them in clouds of package utilities.
A Universal Package Manager (U.P.M for short) should evolve

5. Script to reach the above  four (4) on a step wise manner should be designed.
I call it the plugger.
One can call it the Universal Connector (like the electricity plugs of various countries) and it is virtually wired to the utilities through cloud.

6. Once all the required components are assembled an automated procedure should make a customized ISO-CD/DVD for testing on a virtual machine in the cloud.
All stages up to this should be virtualized.

7. Any developer community could then use the product to customize more if necessary and put it out with a Linux Brand name of their choice and maintain it for that community and the customer base.

By this way it won't kill the community with over 300 active and 300 inactive distributions.

The reason for the inactivity is often due to one developer does the main work and rest follow his or her footsteps and when the chief retires due to domestic reasons there is nobody to step in and succeed.
This is the difference in the Linux customer architecture which become dormant.
Whereas a failing commercial venture like HP, there is somebody to step in till complete bankruptcy is claimed.
Linux do not go bankrupt it goes into hibernation like some animals.
My idea is to wake up these beautiful animals from sleep.
The cloud can be the place for them to hibernate till some metamorphosis of this animal can occur in its sleep mode unlike in real animal world.
This metamorphosis is good for Linux.
There a lot of steps missing in my concept but I firmly believe that it can be done and accomplished if the right steps are taken before commercial clouds invade us and blacken the sky like a rain cloud.
As a beneficiary I would be able to make my customized Linux in the cloud once a year.
My plannings are yearly basis to the grave and not for a century.
But the above concept should outlast me by at least a century with cloud computing on the horizon.

I bet USA/Russia/China cannot do this alone.
U.N.O cannot do it.It even won't try.
But Linux can do it since Linux Guys/Girls do not have racial or national boundaries.
We are all together.
All will be benefited.
Any commercial company can hijack this concept of mine provided they acknowledge that it is coming from a small country called Ceylon (not Sri-Lanka) which is trying to recover from 30 odd years of war which  the Commonwealth (it is not common anymore than it used to be) is hell-bent to destroy.
They company also should not send the product Free to Ceylon or on IMF Loan to us as long as I am alive and well.
They may try to kill my idea after investing the money but not me.
Even they kill my idea there are lot of nice guys/girls out their with brains and community spirit.

It will be reborn again in some far corner of this planet/globe.
With cloud computing we are going to be truly global.

Gecko and his territory and FAT Browsers needing Diet Cola

 Friday, October 7, 2011

Gecko and his territory and FAT Browsers needing Diet Cola 

Gecko and his territory

I wanted to write about the Gecko, the Firefoxe's background engine thinking it is a little browser.

It is not.

It is a layout engine for multiple browsers that originated in the fold of Linux background.

It takes the content and formatting information and displays on the browsers bland screen.

Gecko has been known previously by the code names "Raptor"

I have decided to support the lightest browser in the line of Abiword as the lightest but a very powerful word processor.

I faintly remembered about its Linux origin.

Currently I favour Midori, IceApe, Dillo and SeaMonkey and not Firefox.

FireFox is light on its own but easily get bloated over 100 MiB with cookies.

IceApe

• Download size: 10,27 MB
• Installed size: 29,44 MB
• Package filename: iceape-browser_2.0.11-5_i386.deb
• Source package: iceape

SeaMonkey

• Download size: 19,65 MB
• Installed size: 48,37 MB
• Package filename: seamonkey-2.4-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
• Source package: seamonkey-2.4-1.el6.src.rpm

Dillo

• Download size: 441,81 KB
• Installed size: 1,04 MB
• Package filename: dillo-2.1.1-1.ssl.i386.rpm
• Source package: dillo-2.1.1-1.ssl.src.rpm

wget

• Download size: 480,73 KB
• Installed size: 1,79 MB
• Package filename: wget-1.12-1.4.el6.i686.rpm
• Source package: wget-1.12-1.4.el6.src.rpm

Lynx

• Download size: 1,38 MB
• Installed size: 5,15 MB
• Package filename: lynx-2.8.7-7.fc16.x86_64.rpm
• Source package: lynx-2.8.7-7.fc16.src.rpm

Links

• Download size: 1,81 MB
• Installed size: 2,87 MB
• Package filename: links-2.2-13.fc15.i686.rpm
• Source package: links-2.2-13.fc15.src.rpm

Midori

• Download size: 53,20 KB
• Installed size: 599,80 KB
• Package filename: midori-devel-0.3.6-1.fc15.x86_64.rpm
• Source package: midori-0.3.6-1.fc15.src.rpm

I could not find a single article in the web stating their download size (compressed) and installed size.

This information is mandatory when new releases are made and they should also give a breakdown of the size of the cookies allowed when fully integrated.

 

 Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Why I hate Nosy, Bulky Browsers?
 

I will list them first for easy browsing and relate an incident that happened only yesterday.

1. They are FAT.

2. The have what are called cookies. These cookies are very oily full of Cholesterol.

3. They are Lazy as a result of eating FAT Cookies.

4. All of these I can excuse.
To be fat is no crime. To be Lazy is  a Sri-Lankan pastime and I can excuse that too.

5. But I cannot tolerate FAT person being nosy. 
All these browsers are Nosy. 
In fact, like  FBI and KGB they are paranoid and watch every move you make out there in the web.
There is nothing called privacy.

6. You may say I have a password when I read my mail. 
It is just a joke. 
Your password is remembered for posterity. 
You might or yeah, it saves me typing a cryptic password.

But if the search engine remembers it how can it be a password?
Coming from Linux background this is violation number one.
Who gives permission to the browser.
Nobody but like a school principal the browser assumes the authority.

7. Some cookies do eavesdropping for advertisers especially porn.

8. Where does one end up with?
Your boss is angry with you.
Try to find an excuse to sack you.
You inadvertently forget to log off and close the browser and pretend to be doing some mundane work.
He excuses for a minute and sit in.
Goes through the history.
Copy the history and sends an email to himself with a date tag. 
He does this for a month or so and asks you for an interview.
Some paranoid bosses may have even surreptitiously opened your email (DID NOT LOG OFF BUT ONLY CLOSED THE BROWSER) and BROWSE YOUR PRIVATE MAIL TOO.
You have no defense and fired.
Whom to blame not your boss but the BIG FAT BROWSER?

What is the end result.
Your boss is paranoid and you too are paranoid and the productivity comes down drastically.

9. Same scenario can be in your home unless you have a little network like what I have at home.
Everyone has a computer terminal (Linux not Microsoft) and the guests also has a terminal for an emergency.
Even if one does not have anything to hide like a simple Buddhist monk every individual deserve some space of privacy.
Breaking that is violation of a fundamental right.

10. What can one do?
If you use Linux you can have a Pendrive with your favorite distribution to boot up.
That is the cheapest way.
Otherwise have your own netbook or laptop which is bulky to say the least.
With tablets coming the weight might come down a little.
Apart from other reasons, this is one reason I strongly support tablets with variety of android clones and in time to come Anti-Android from Singapore.

Story
I wanted to show JoliCloud to a young guy.
I logged in his computer with my password.
Browser Chrome.
Operating system Microsoft Win 7.
I tried to log off the cookie wasn't there.

Tried several times, searched every godforsaken little menu but could not log off.

I log on to JoliCloud, it starts again to my cloud space without asking for the password.
No logging off dialog box.

Finally he had to erase the one hour of our activity to erase the cookies remembering my password for future sessions.
Had I left without logging off he would have had the access to my data and if he devised (he was a nice guy and I was pretty sure he would not do that) a method to change my password I will lose my ability to log in next time.

The story is different if the guy is like your paranoid boss.
I signed off saying there is no privacy in the web.
He agreed without reservation.

Why I am writing about Xournal?

 Xournal

Why I am writing about Xournal?
 

Xournal is a GTK+ application for notetaking, sketching and keeping a journal using a stylus. 
It can also be used to add annotations to PDF files.
It is because when tablets come small utilities become very useful and they will be the mainstay.

    Repository: Debian Main
    Download size: 259,69 KB
    Installed size: 892,00 KB
    Package filename: xournal_0.4.5-2_i386.deb
    Source package: xournal

ROBIN says this.

It’s a kid-friendly pdf annotator that will make your pdf forms look snappy and professional!
Here is a really fun, kid-friendly application that is not only great for taking notes in class, but it’s also an easy pdf annotator for filling out those fancy forms (college or employment applications) that expect you to fill in tiny little spaces with legible writing. Now when the teacher draws a diagram on the chalkboard and you need to copy it down, you can do it on your laptop or netbook instead of a piece of paper that can blow away when you drop your books (I’m clumsy and lose a lot of stuff that way, lol) or get lost among all the other stuff you have to carry around in your backpack.

The default is Sans 12, but in this example I selected size 9 for this college application with the teensy weensie boxes they want filled out LEGIBLY. Ha, not with my big loopy handwriting! That’s another way that Xournal is so helpful! Now just place the cursor in the space and type away. Cursor placement is a little tricky at first, but once you get it in your mind that the letters go on top of an imaginary baseline determined by where you click the cursor, it’s effortless. Just think vertically instead of horizontally and put the cursor where an underline would go: “I want the letters on this line. Now you’re ready to start filling out the form.
And you can sign the form using the pencil option. You can choose the thickness! Ball-point pen thin or Sharpie-like thick, and in whatever color you like. For this you need a stylus (or a closed inkpen on a laptop touchpad). But just for fun you can even do it with a mouse!
 
 Danny Stieben says this (posted on April 14, 2011) 
Xournal, simply put, is a note-taking Linux application. However, instead of getting a blank box to enter information into, you get a blank piece of “paper” every time you open it up. And that’s all it does, aside from giving you all the tools you could possibly need to pour your heart out on that virtual piece of paper.

And surprisingly, Xournal is a lightweight application, even with the large range of options. 
With a barely marked page open, Xournal takes less than 5MB from your RAM!

Tablet owners will have even more pleasure while using Xournal. 
With the right hardware, it can literally become your virtual paper that you can write on without any issues. Xournal even goes down to subpixels instead of just pixels to create the cleanest, smoothest, and most accurate lines that, when using a tablet, will make up your legible handwriting.
 
Thanks you, young guys, keep us informed, the old guys like me with your discoveries.

Pear-OS

 Friday, December 16, 2011
Pear-OS

Linux-

Panther-Sinhala Install Capability
Pear-OS-Linux-Panther
Pear Os is a Ubuntu derivative which tries to simulate Apple Like features with with dock utility.
It is Debian based looks nice.
It has both 32 bit and 64 bit versions.
Reason for my entry here is, it can be installed in Sinhala.
Lately Ubuntu derivatives are trying it hard to get multi-language capability and Ubuntu's Unity experience has hindered this.
Currently only Debian has Sinhala capability and Fedora is also lagging behind because of its rapid changes.
Thank for trying hard on Sinhala.

Grave Digging and Cloning Maha Brahma

Grave Digging and Cloning Maha Brahma

Well, it is long time since I had a good dream to send to Maha Brahma (assistant in charge) for interpretation.

This time it is down to earth.

Unlike few decades ago it was going for birth day parties and wedding, now the trend is different. I happen to go for funerals more often than not.

I do not know that the dream has any relationship to the funeral I went last but the dream was about two grave diggers who were twins.

They were employed by the Kandy municipality. Now that most of the bodies are cremated, they have very little  digging to do and the ash left is only less than 4Kg, many of it can be sprayed under the remaining trees round the Kanatta (Mahaiyyawa) but that is also taken away for rituals by the relatives, their income was getting lower by the day.

One day they decided to go and do a different type of digging. Dig some ancient treasures in the Paduwas Nuwara. They set foot from Kandy to Kurunegala and stayed in a place for preparation. One of them went out to get all the necessary items including jasmine flowers, lemon and chicken etc leaving the other to look after the grave digging equipment they treasured very much. Even grave digging equipment is not safe nowadays.

When he returned to the resting place he found a guy looked similar to him in his bed and his twin in the other bed. So when he entered the room all three were looking at each other puzzled as if they (all three) had seen a ghost and there was some commotion and I was woken up before the dream finished.

Maha Brahmawas bit puzzled that I did not send him an email earlier than this.

What is the problem with you.

You are not sleeping well?

No Sir.

I sleep very well because of the industrial action and get up late too and forget most of the dreams by the time i get up.

So when you do academic work you dream a lot?

Yes

Shall I settle the dispute?

No Sir.

If you do that I don't have time even to send an email.

On the contrary, our politician sleep a lot in between the elections and it is good for them to have a wake up call now and then, now that the honeymoon is over.

Now then how did the dream end?

Actually there were four of them.

What you saw was exact isotopes of the twin brothers.

One brother who remained was under the bed and he was frightened when those two guys walked into the room.

Were they ghosts.

No.

How come?

They had gone for a medical check up and doctors cloned them in case any one of them (normal guys) come for heart transplant or organ transplant.

Why?

Now that the war is over and refuges are not there price of transplant organs have gone up like the fish.

The nurses by mistake had given an overdose of hormones and they have rapidly grown up to full size and escaped from the hospital and ended up at the resting place.

I can understand logic now that stem cells experiments are going on at hectic pace but what is the interpretation?

I cannot give a time schedule lest you get into trouble.

Interpretation

If I say in future, politicians who go for higher posts clone themselves before the election. In case if they die during the campaign, the clone will come and represent the dead one. While in office they keep them as a safety valve in case something happens during the term of office.

But the real reason is, now that the term of re-election time is indefinite cloning is essential for self propagation and continuation of development policies.

Doc is it really possible to clone Gods.

Why not?

That is why gods live for aeons and your bossMaha Brahma has many clones, in case something happens.

Have you clone yourself?

No.

You better do that soon.

There are many dogs here aspiring to take up your post.

Is it costly?

No

We need only a few stem cells.

OK, I will seriously consider that possibility but I have to ask my bossMaha Brahma.

I got to go do you have any more questions.

I hear Mr. Praba also had a look a like clone in case something happens to him.

Is it true?

Did he clone himself?

No, No.

It was only a rumour he never wanted him cloned less the clone will kill him.

Can that happen?

Yes

All clones have to be kept in secret location and a weekly dose of amnesia injection (treatment) should be given to maintain them in good shape.

Then when the real one dies an antidote of anti-amnesia injection is given by the panel of advisers surrounding the boss and the advisers take him to task and do what they please most.

If the first clone does not listen to the advisers, they dispose him or her and get another clone.

If they escape from interment he or she will certainly get rid of the real one.

Didn't I tell you your dreams are always futuristic.

Dream well and I will see you soon.

Don't forget to clone yourself but in heaven they do not kill each other unlike on earth.

Do they?

Nope, see you soon.

Casual look at the interpretation of this dream is bizarre but if one applies modern scientific tenant, something radical is emerging with genome project well in advance now.

 

Happy Mood

I am in a bit of a happy mood.

I got CachyOS running with three other Linux Distributions. All these time CachyOS had problem with ciexistong with other Linux Distributions.

It has sorted out that problem.

I installed all what I wanted but could not find the GNOME Disk User Utility in Octapi Package Manager.

Then using FLATpak I got GNOME Software and installed it.

I have 3.9GB left in the /root partition but it warns me there is little space left. I worry only if it is less than 2GB.

I got AV Linux new version installed with Enlightenment Desktop but added GNOME later. I sacrificed BlueStar Linux on a single partition for AV Linux. BlueStar is the most beautiful KDE Desktop and has Octapi Package Manager.

I have Neon User and Mint Linux in addition to two copies of Debian GNOME.

I will stop fiddling with my system.

Pear OS distribution is does not run on Box Utility and it is RAM cravy in addition to asking for regular contribution of money.

Do not confuse with Pearl Linux which is pretty good with its own PDE Desktop. I kept running it for some time but erased it to test othe distributions.

REBORN OS is also parted with to give room for CachyOS.

REBORN OS is the best for a newcomer.

Its installer pricess is smooth and UPDATES it on the first instance itself.

Installation of additional packges is breezy and there is no Octapi.

I'll take a break from Linux UPDATES.

First Casualry in War is Truth

This is the statement I made regarding Russia vs Ukraine War. I knew it was a CIA project having analysed various comments by journalists.

Russia made the biggest blunder by caterorizing it as a Special Military Operation.

When they realized there were at least 32 Biological Research Laboratories working in Ukraine on Viral Strain to kill President Putin, they upgraded it to a Military Operation to kill as many Ukrainian soldiers as possible.

Now it is the NATO soldiers especially Polish who are sacrificing their lives. 

Then it bacame a place for mercineries from all over the world including Brazil.

Only North Korean soldiers supported Russians and they were deployed in KURSK. Kursk incursion was a military ploy hatchee and created by British MI15/16.

British hate Russians and for what reason I do not know.

Then, I favoured Russian and I cannot say why. Not any more.

Now I abhor war in all forms.

I do not support either side in Iran vs Israel war (USA is the major casualty by in the economic realm).

Both sides are lying upto their noses.

My guess it would end up in a statemate.

Both camps are looking for an off ramp simply because of the massive economic impact.

Price of petrol barrel gone up to $150/= currently.

The price of bread would go up, next.

Many Airlines would go bust and ordinary people will curtail holidays abroad.

Biggest impact would be for the so called Black Jews, the Indians.

I think this is the time for Africans to rise up and beat Elon Musk on Electric Cars.

Summary of the Iran vs Israel War.

American Side

Dominance, Exuberance and Quick Execution 

Reality is miscalculation of its potential

Iran Side

Survival, Sustenance and Protraction (not the Russian War of Attrition which is STUPID)

Unpredictability is their goal.

Every day of survival is a forward step for Denial of American Supremacy

Outcome

Total World Economic Collapse 

Slow bur Steady Regime Changes in the Middle East

Everything will go up in price including Bread and Butter.

Do Dogs Dream=D.D.D?

 Do Dogs Dream=D.D.D?
The next question is, if they do, can you detect when your dog dreams?
I am convinced that my dog dreams as well as me when on holidays.
In my case I dream on working days not on holidays.
If I dream on a holiday I consider myself sick or going to be sick.
So make sure that you do not dream on holidays; otherwise it will make the next day of YOUR holiday a misery.
In actual fact, on holidays we sleep less, do more things (as far as I am concerned) and enjoy life more.
We do not have to dream like when we are working, on holidays.
When on holidays do not dream BUT make better use of the holiday.
In any case holiday is dream come true so act on your instinct.
I have cut and pasted the probable answer/s to above but let me tell my story.
Our prolong strike (please note, I made a resolution not to write anything to amuse the readers, during the strike period) made me to observe my dog and it was a welcome change.
I was bored to death.
To begin with we synchronized our sleep.
My dreams became less and less.
I was sleeping a lot and started getting up at bizarre times when my dog was fast sleep.
Fearing I disturb his sleep, I stealthily get out of my bed and do something mundane, like sorting out my books or files or photographs.
Then I quickly lost interested in them and one day, started watching my dog who was well into its sleep.
This became a habit.
He gets into postures which were its puppy days’ habits and happy days reproductions
The dog was in complete meditative relaxation.
He does not get up at these times and enjoy them.
I am convinced he dreams well when I am on holiday without any E.E.G. records.
So if you are bored try watching your dog and try to identify the times he or she dreams.
I believe dogs need a good dose of happy dreams.
Well there is another question to wind up.
What is the single most common dream in Ceylon?
According to my survey results, every Ceylonese dreams of becoming the president of this country.
Then he gets up happy but when he realizes that it was a dream he is frightened to death.
He knows only one can become the president and that is also indefinitely and he does not have a fighting chance even in a dream state.

He/She does not tell the dream even to the respective spouse.

Please do not tell this to the president.
If you do so, I am sure it will be gazetted soon “dreaming is prohibited”.

Read the article below if you have time.

Do Dogs Dream?
Dogs dream like humans and about similar things.
Published on October 28, 2010 by Stanley Coren, Ph.D., F.R.S.C. in Canine Corner
Many people believe that dogs do dream.
Most dog owners have noticed that at various times during their sleep, some dogs may quiver, make leg twitches or may even growl or snap at some sleep-created phantom, giving the impression that they are dreaming about something.
At the structural level, the brains of dogs are similar to those of humans. Also, during sleep the brain wave patterns of dogs are similar that of people, and go through the same stages of electrical activity observed in humans, all of which is consistent with the idea that dogs are dreaming.
Actually if dogs didn't dream this would be a much greater surprise given that recent evidence suggests that animals that are simpler and less intelligent than dogs seem to dream.
Matthew Wilson and Kenway Louie of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have evidence that the brains of sleeping rats are functioning in a way that irresistibly suggests dreaming.
Much of the dreaming that you do at night is associated with the activities that you engaged in that day. The same seems to be the case in rats. Thus if a rat ran a complex maze during the day he might be expected to dream about it at night. While a rat was awake and learning the maze, electrical recordings were taken from its hippocampus (an area of the brain associated with memory formation and storage).
Researchers found that some of these electrical patterns were quite specific and identifiable depending upon what the rat was doing. Later, when the rats were asleep and their brain waves indicated that they had entered the stage where humans normally dream, these same patterns of brain waves appeared. In fact the patterns were so clear and specific that the researchers were able to tell where in the maze the rat would be if it were awake, and whether it would be moving or standing still. Wilson cautiously described the results, saying, "The animal is certainly recalling memories of those events as they occurred during the awake state, and it is doing so during dream sleep and that's just what people do when they dream."
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Since a dog's brain is more complex and shows the same electrical sequences, it is reasonable to assume that dogs are dreaming, as well. There is also evidence that they dream about common dog activities. This kind of research takes advantage of the fact that there is a special structure in the brain-stem (the pons) that keeps all of us from acting out our dreams. When scientists removed or inactivated the part of the brain that suppresses acting out of dreams in dogs, they observed that they began to move around, despite the fact that electrical recordings of their brains indicated that the dogs were still fast asleep. The dogs only started to move when the brain entered that stage of sleep associated with dreaming. During the course of a dream episode these dogs actually began to execute the actions that they were performing in their dreams. Thus researchers found that a dreaming pointer may immediately start searching for game and may even go on point, a sleeping Springer Spaniel may flush an imaginary bird in his dreams, while a dreaming Doberman pincher may pick a fight with a dream burglar.
It is really quite easy to determine when your dog is dreaming without resorting to brain surgery or electrical recordings. All that you have to do is to watch him from the time he starts to doze off. As the dog's sleep becomes deeper his breathing will become more regular. After a period of about 20 minutes for an average-sized dog his first dream should start. You will recognize the change because his breathing will become shallow and irregular. There may be odd muscle twitches, and you can even see the dog's eyes moving behind its closed lids if you look closely enough. The eyes are moving because the dog is actually looking at the dream images as if they were real images of the world. These eye movements are most characteristic of dreaming sleep. When human beings are awakened during this rapid eye movement or REM sleep phase, they virtually always report that they were dreaming.
I recently received a letter from Joseph Baker, which seems to confirm the idea of dogs having dreams about their everyday activities. I have taken the liberty of reproducing part of it here.
"I have an anecdote that you may find interesting, however it requires some back story. About three years ago I heard a story on the radio about a cognitive scientist who was trying to understand sleep and dreams. He had a hypothesis describing how sensory memories replay themselves during early REM sleep. The study he published had subjects play Tetris [a computer game where you try to line up falling blocks of various colors] and then report whether or not they saw the little Tetris bricks in their dreams. This stuck with me because the previous night I had very vivid dreams involving a hike I had been on earlier. I could feel the snow and smell the air as though it were real.
"This brings me to my dog. Goober is a basenji, and like many basenjis he hates water and being bathed. As soon as my wife finishes bathing him he bolts out of the bathroom door, finds me, and tries to hide behind me or under me. So one day Goober was forced to be cleaned and underwent his ritual of hiding behind me. Later that night he was sleep running. He awoke with a start, and then bolted to my location to hide under my legs. This was very awkward as I was sitting on the toilet at the time. I believe that he was dreaming, and I believe that he was dreaming about having a bath. I believe this because he only engages in this behavior when a bath is involved."
Well Joe, I believe that there are at least two psychologists at MIT who would agree with you.

A Dream and its Interpretation

 A Dream and its Interpretation

One of My Typical Dreams and its interpretation from Heaven

I had two bad nights in which I kept up all night doing some bizarre routines of editing a long text file into print form, downloading, burning iso images and testing them, blogging and making Power Point type of presentation with Google’s Free TripWoW.
 
I had a good night sleep yesterday and woke with a nice dream.

I thought Maha Brahma would be happy since the dream was related to heaven itself.
 
I was fed up with living on this planet with so much mosquitoes and very warm weather and sleeping only a brief period at night (reason for my keeping up at night is to thrash mosquitoes and send them to heaven instantaneously with my blessings).

They are crushed with rapid alternative and reciprocal movements of my hands closing together in symphony with mosquito music beating down by ears and the mosquitoes are not spared a moment of thought (thought block) of their own (when they die) and when they wake up, really reborn, they are there in heaven with Maha Brahma, fanning the senior Devas with hand held fans. No beating of drums like in CEYLON.
 
The Dream
I decided to vacate my post on earth and made an early entry to heaven, with the message in a long electronic PHP form.

1 made sure, I entered every cage, like when you fill the USA Visa form.

It is similar to our elderly politicians who wish to be born in America instead of heaven. They call America the heaven on earth and only the most corrupt politicians that curry favour America, including Indians organizing IPL Cricket are allowed (Not Qaddafi Type) Visa to America and reborn again, there.

In my case I made sure I did not leave any gaps fearing anybody who enter the data into the computer in heaven might add unnecessary details that might prevent my qualification for entry to heaven.

Then I saw Maha Brama himself going through the form personally because it was recognized as my personal writing by Maha Brahma.

However, he was not happy for not leaving any room inside and between cages where he can make some entries, if he so desires and put his stamp of approval.

This was very unusual for me unlike e-forms in the web where they make it compulsory for almost all the entries to be filled so that search engines can put you in some form of commercial category to market web goods and services at lib.

I was making a big fuss why do you make it so difficult like pension claims and when Maha Brama put his hand on my shoulder and said;

You are trying to be very clever aren’t you?
With the press of his hand I felt a very heavy shock and woke up.

Sadly I was not in heaven on my bed.

But I had a very pleasant sense of some ease and happiness that even in my dream I was speaking to the all almighty the Maha Brahma and not to a political big wig or a Ceylonese cricket selector who is a decider cum political leader who invites a yesteryear cricketer out of his skeleton cupboard to represent at Kingston Oval having looked at his previous record book on political affiliations.
Of course one gets a ticket to London and return on Cricket Board expenses.

Maha was bit puzzled.
He thought I really wanted to join him in a hurry and deprive him some good dreams from earth.
Equally he was concerned that I was pulling a fast one to get a facilitator in heaven for rear entry.

Like our old politicians and national thinkers who are almost demented but want to secure a National List MP Post.

Did you really dream this?
Of course, I replied.
Do you know how the leave is granted in heaven?

Not a slightest bit of idea, Sir.

Then he calmed down a lot and said, this was a good dream and it is futuristic and does not apply to you.

I was relieved.
Why were you so concerned about NOT leaving gaps in the e-form.

It is like this.
In heaven we grant leave to all applicants irrespective of their need.
But one has to leave a little space as a grace, offering me some administrative work space which is mandatory.
You have to mention the date of commencement only and not the date of return.
In our case what is important is the date of return.

Not the date of commencement, Sir.

We tend to fall sick for no reason, if the leave is not granted and if the date of return is not entered, then there is a bigger problem.

It is not like that in heaven since we leave the date of return cage empty, I can just put a date at random when things demand and automatically the server sends an email alert with some nice music to wake up the angels on leave on the right day.

By doing this I never have the problem of everybody applying for leave at the same time.
Or I see.

Do they sleep on holidays and do you go to other heavens for vacation?

I suppose they do so, but they get easily bored when on leave and want to come back and activate their inborn desires and pastimes like listening to music, bit of gossiping about earth and it’s politics and interpreting dreams like what I am doing, now.

Did your boss real Maha Brahma leave an empty space.

NO.

(Real Maha Brahma is on leave and the current assistant is a pedgree dog from CEYLON).

My goodness.
That is why I am stuck here.
I do not have a space to make an entry and call him back even if I wanted to.

So this new regulation is one of your own creations to call back whenever you need somebody.
Yes, that was why I was bit worried and thought you are trying a fast one to get to grips with administration here even before coming here.

It is like our U.G.C Chairman putting a backdated regulation for his own survival.

Can I put an entry without empty spaces.

I will let you do that since now you know my devises but do not tell other gods and angles.

OK,OK.
 
Dream Interpretation
The interpretation is very simple because it relates mostly to Ceylon.
In future when the future Presidents want certain things for himself he calls the guy /  girls to the President House and give them a sumptuous meal.
Then he gets you to sign some blank papers undated and make you to leave gaps in the entry form.
For example you have a Tourist Hotel which is very popular at the beach side.
He comes there for a holiday and become interested in the property.
He invites you to his house for a drink and get all the papers ready for a 10 year rolling lease period.

So that is the end of the property, I guess.

Yes, especially if the guy or girl rub shoulders at a re-election or of the ruling party.

The problem is he will do this to the entire registered population with in one year of election.
Only one census is enough and he will own the entire length and breath of the country.

How big is the country then?

The sea has advanced almost to Kandy and all the population is now in the hills and population is 100 times now.

If they do not sign what happens?.

They are loaded and sent as refugees to India by boat and India has 100,000 times more people than now and their sea has advanced almost to the foothills of Himalaya.
There is no room for someone to lie down and all are standing upright and one out of thousand get a chance to lie down once a year for a holiday break for 10 to 15 minutes.

The humans have mutated a lot and have very strong legs and very long tapering hands to reach even trees (or for begging) and hang on for few minutes a day to give their legs a break and that also has to be done in turns and there is a token that handshake like a tablet (Like in Ethernet and Railways) that pass around from hand to hand and one can keep it only for few minutes less you get a teaser shock with a laser satellite in orbit.
One takes the table in one hand and reach a branch of a tree and let go the tablet before the tracer shock is given.

What about the toilets.

There is no problem, there is an automatic suction tube that sucks urine and scat separately even when one does not have the urge to go and they are used for new form of energy and water is recycled for reuse.
This is similar to the space technology developed in the shuttle.

What about the air one breaths.

One has to open an insurance policy, the moment one is born for air safety (security) and it is controlled by the Government in power and the President himself is in charge.
Process is similar to water and electricity bills but more expensive and the cleaning plants for air are connected to the same tube that suck out all excreta but with a different and safe viaduct for (breathing) air.

Free air is polluted and one cannot breath it.

I do not think you should worry about these little things you will be gone many moons before this happens.

Where to?

I am not suppose to tell you when you are still a human.
 
OK;
See you soon.
He disappeared in a flash.

Total Quality Management (T.Q.M) of SLEEP

Total Quality Management (T.Q.M) of SLEEP
I have not had good sleep for the last one year or so.
There were many reasons.
Fact that, I had to published a book on “My Dreams” and their Interpretation was a good omen, not an inconvenience.
I only dream when I am down with fever or recovering form a flu episode.
I probably dream a lot but never remember them unless I am incapacitated.
Be that, as may be, for the coming year it is not a healthy pastime and this years resolution is for me to catch up all the lost sleep.
In fact, I am practicing it for the last few days and it seems to be becoming infectious in the family.
The reason for lack of sleep was my obsession of downloading 100 Linux distributions to begin with but it ended up passing over 200 and not out, which Tandurkar should be bit concerned with.
It was shear perseverance.
Lot of odds!
 
I wish Tandukar make it this year for the record.
 
Good luck it will be on your way soon.
 
Do not believe on lucky stars but believe in yourself.
My reason for keeping up in the night is that I could never get our Telecoms the speed above 5 to 10 bits in day time even though I pay for 50 bits/sec.
This is where lack of quality (Telecom) is judged by every minute of loss of my sleep.
Then there was regular electricity breaks downs.
I had to get up (before UPS shuts up) before the download stream breaks down and shutdown the computer and restart again when power is restored almost every other day due to sudden interruption to electricity supply.
That is number two in my list of lack of Quality.
Number three is the water supply.
All of the above three I pay through my nose and I have decided to terminate my Linux adventure soon.
That is after I have downloaded a few Linux gamers for demonstration.
I am trying the Ultimate gamer for the last two weeks and there is still 1 GiB left.
Hopefully without any break I would be able to download it from a point to point server.
Hope they place the image in Linux-tracker soon.
Ultimate Linux 3.0 (without games) I was able to download through Linux-tracker in 2 days.
My quality of sleep is interrupted by two or more sources.
Number one is Global Warming and its attendant increase of mosquito menace.
Number two is my dog barking at night.
Number three is the fire crackers which my dog hates.
He does not sleep and so do I.
So to solve my quality problem, I need to bring down the ambient temperature.
With coal power and the rest of the factors contributing to its upward mobility I won’t be able to solve it.
I will try my ZERO carbon out put (that means I have to die) and failing which low carbon output.
I must go into Metta Meditation and the Dream Mode to conserve energy and low CO2 output.
When I do that mosquito attraction is less.
I will encourage the misquotes to breed in my water buckets.
Then add two or three Guppy fish when full of larvae.
Water plants of course I cannot use as vegetables but I will try to find a water plant that prevent mosquito breeding.
When I sleep well my dog also sleep well.
The mosquitoes reach me first and then the dog who is under the bed.
I cannot do anything about the fire crackers.
I will put some ear plugs and possibly to my dog’s ears too.
I do not think my dog will love ear plugs.
So those are the few steps of quality control I may employ coming year.
Mind you I will stop downloading Linux within the next few weeks.
I have enough in my archives now.

About Sleep and Dreams

 Wednesday, December 28, 2016
About Sleep and Dreams

I have taken sleep as a bit a routine and did not write anything scientific or substantial.
If you read the contents below it was always (with a bit of slant and satire attached) not to the point but somewhat bizarre in attitude.
Simply because sleep was not a problem for me.
I can sleep standing in a bus plying to Colombo but awake quickly enough to grab a hand of a pickpocket.
Equally, I can keep up awake with only coffee and tea in between for 48 hours.
I took a challenge and won.
I kept up 48 hours without sleeping with the challengers watching me.
Funnily enough, my watchers, could not keep up with me and they went into snooze mode while observing me.
 
Then of course, I go into sleep mode immediately after, and I won’t wake up until I had recovered fully.
The bottom line is nobody tries to wake me up (that includes my mother) while I am in sleep mode.
 
I dip into deep sleep without an intervention.
 
Nutty things to do when one is young but I won’t recommend the above to any living soul.
 
I can switch my wake and sleep cycle almost at will and I believed that others have the same ability.
 
I am proven wrong.
 
Let me expand.
 
1. I have never given a sleeping tablet to a patient for dropping to sleep except pre-medication for major surgery.

2. I am very liberal on pain relief (if one is not a drug addict).
The practice of medicine relies solely on taking grief and pain factor away from patients.

3. Sleeping tablets are lethal and one gets addicted after 48 hours.
The sleep one gets with these tablets is not normal and they upset the diurnal rhythm up to two weeks.

4. One needs minimum of 4 hours of deep sleep.
Buddha was an example who slept only 4 hours and if not occupied, he was in meditative bliss and wide awake.

5. An average adult (children needs more sleep) needs about 8 hours of sleep, not necessarily continuous (in one go).
 
One can have it in two slots which is much better, if one can afford it.

6. The bottom line is how to get the most needed 4 hours of deep sleep.

7. Many does not have the ability to roll into this mode, simply because of the inhibitions that precedes the rest or the night cap.

8. Even if one is in bed for 10 hours and not got the required 4 hours of deep sleep, he/she feels sleepy during waking hours, the next day.
 
How to avoid it?

9. Few guide lines but none might work at the beginning but with perseverance one can achieve the target of 4 hours of deep sleep unless one’s physiology is deranged or has chronic painful illnesses.
 
This advice is for one who has no other disability including major depressive illness or manic depression.

10. One should retire to bed only when days work is finished and not before. 
 
Similarly, one should have a mental sketch of what has to be done the next day (not the next week).

11. Humans work on 24 to 28 hour cycles (unfortunately little longer than the earth cycle) not less.
This is why finishing the days major chores is of paramount importance.
 
Do not leave the work for the weekends.
 
In other words “Moment Meditation” (my coining) in practice.
 
Do the things as they ought to be, at the right time.
 
No procrastination.
 
The principle here is one should not detail more work than one can accomplish in a day or day time.
 
Nothing pending at bed time.
 
If you practice this dropping to sleep is spontaneous.
 
More than likely you get to the deep sleep mode quickly.
 
It is the mental anxiety that keeps you awake the first few moments in bed.

12. When you wake up (unless you are retired and nothing else to day the next morning) in the morning do not deliberate and stay in bed for few more minutes.
 
Your sleep is interrupted by normal biological rhythm or the alarm.
 
You cannot go back to good sleep again.
 
Wake up and if you are bit early tidy up the morning work.

13. Mind you when you do not have a good sleep the first casualty is YOUR MEMORY.
 
You forget things.

14. Let me now dispense the factors that hinder your sleep.
 
Number one is excess of coffee.
No coffee at bedtime.
It is an addiction.
 
Number two is tea.
 
Both items impair your sleep and more importantly dropping to sleep is delayed.
 
Others includes heavy rice meal or alcohol.
 
Both items cause mid night hyopglycaemia and interrupt your sleep when deep sleep is about to commence.
 
In our set up rice and alcohol are culprits of breaking the sleep pattern.
 
Not only that both items cause regurgitation of stomach contents while flat on bed.
 
They cause acid irritation since starch and alcohol cannot neutralize acid secretions.
 
Light beefy (not necessarily beef but soya meat, egg omelette would do) meal and milk are the antidotes not tea or coffee. 
 
If tea is desired add lot of MILK.
 
Adding milk has no effect on coffee.
 
So take the mental and physical hindrances to your sleep as cardinal sins.

15. I have not talked about the bed, the room, the temperature, humidity and lighting (they are individual variables) BUT your cellphone is the nasty invention of modern times.

Switch it off FIRST, before any preparation (for sleep).
 
I do not have one.

16. Watching TV (passive attention) late at night (unless the next morning is an off day or holiday) is another reason for interrupted sleep and bizarre dreams.
 
Unlike natural vision digital flashes of memory of TV irritate your brain.
 
What one need is brain getting ready to relax and then sleep mode eventually.
 
It is not good for your health.

17. Computer (not cellphone) with a keyboard (you can hit the keys as they were made of steel) is a good anxiety reliever before bedtime.
 
My routine is to look at the emails and deleting the junk.
 
That routine start always after mid night.
 
Looking at your email is the most boring activity.
 
So boring YOU feel like dropping to sleep on your keyboard.
 
The advantage is that you save lot of TIME, the next morning.
 
Nobody expects (only paranoid person would take emails seriously NOW) YOU to answer emails as they come.
 
You must be liberal with DELETE action.
 
It should be like “the knee jerk reaction”.
 
This is why I prefer blogging (hate Facebook and social media) to social media.
 
Who cares if you had million hits?
 
Is it like an orgasm?
 
I doubt its impact.

18. Dreams are vital ingredients of your sleep and I will enlarge upon them with my own dreams.
 
Or you read my books on Dreams available at Amazon’s.
 
My recommendation of Sleep and Dream habits for Married Couples.
 
This applies only to married couples.
 
The young lovers should do whatever dreaming they do at lib and they should not read this article which is very obnoxious when infatuated.
 
I’ll try to be as brief as possible since married people have no time for heavy reading but reflex action only.
 
My advice to a young couple on sleep and never on dreams (since they are in a dream world which is going to end soon after the honeymoon) in good old days was one should match a couple with synchronized sleep.
 
Night sleeper who gets up early, late or indifferent.
 
Day time napper or of 8 hour 10 or 6 hour sleeper.
 
Idea was when two of them sleep which is synchronized, they get up together and the home and office work is synchronized.
 
The advantage is only to the employer and not to the married couple any way.
 
That is my new finding not disclosed.

My old advice do not stand to reality of married life.
 
One should have two erratic sleepers so that when one dreams other one is up and doing home or office chores.
 
Married life is 24/7 schedule and never 9 to 5.
 
One has to be working while the other is having a nap unlike in office life where everybody has to work whether enough work is there or not.

My recent but not published or disclosed data suggest the only time married people have a respite is in their real dream world.

So enjoy them even they are bitter to the opposite sex.

After all they are dreams.

Have you ever seen a couple who relate their dreams when woken up to the opposite spouse.
 
In my experience never.
 
The reality is that the dream is heavily edited to satisfy the opposite spouse.

Usually all the dreams are if not majority are obnoxious ones which even in reality extend from blue murder or downright slanderous.

If they truly relate these dreams the marriage won’t last even three months.

Most of the breakup are due to recurrent incidences of these obnoxious dreams.
 
One should never go to hypnotherapist for help and they (are the worse) will record them and use them to blackmail when his/her income is dwindling or volunteer to supply the information secretly to the defense lawyer of the other side for inappropriate black income.

This specially happens in Ceylon

If these dreams recur it is alright to go to a divorce lawyer but never to a hypnotherapist.

Who knows one may take undue advantage.

One has to bear them, bite the teeth and boldly take them in, one go at a time, like a true and mature married man or woman.

One should not give this information to doctors since they will give you a sleeping pill and inadvertently stop the only entertainment one has at his/her leisure time activity.

That is simply a disaster.

If you want to prolong and succeed in marriage one has to edit every dream to suit the partner and occasionally relate them saying,
 
I had a lovely dream about You KNOW with all the blah blah.

This has worked for me and I do not know about my wife.
 
All bad dreams are censored by default.

Now I write about dreams, nobody trust my dreams except Maha Brahma who never dreams in real life.
 
His hobby is to listen to my ones and interpret them with wisdom.
 
If you have any bad dream about your spouse (not your secret lover) please post them under comments.
 
I may consider sending them to Maha’s perusal and interpretation.
 
I assure you he never keeps any record of them since I am the virtual registrar.

Total Quality Management (T.Q.M) and my SLEEP
I have not had good sleep for the last one year or so.
There were many reasons.
Fact that, I had to published a book on “My Dreams” and their Interpretation was a good omen, not an inconvenience.
I only dream when I am down with fever or recovering form a flu episode.
I probably dream a lot but never remember them unless I am incapacitated.
Be that, as may be, for the coming year it is not a healthy pastime and this years resolution is for me to catch up all the lost sleep.
In fact, I am practicing it for the last few days and it seems to be becoming infectious in the family.
The reason for lack of sleep was my obsession of downloading 100 Linux distributions to begin with but it ended up passing over 200 and not out, which Tandurkar should be bit concerned with.
It was shear perseverance.
Lot of odds!
 
I wish Tandukar make it this year for the record.
 
Good luck it will be on your way soon.
 
Do not believe on lucky stars but believe in yourself.
My reason for keeping up in the night is that I could never get our Telecoms the speed above 5 to 10 bits in day time even though I pay for 50 bits/sec.
This is where lack of quality (Telecom) is judged by every minute of loss of my sleep.
Then there was regular electricity breaks downs.
I had to get up (before UPS shuts up) before the download stream breaks down and shutdown the computer and restart again when power is restored almost every other day due to sudden interruption to electricity supply.
That is number two in my list of lack of Quality.
Number three is the water supply.
All of the above three I pay through my nose and I have decided to terminate my Linux adventure soon.
That is after I have downloaded a few Linux gamers for demonstration.
I am trying the Ultimate gamer for the last two weeks and there is still 1 GiB left.
Hopefully without any break I would be able to download it from a point to point server.
Hope they place the image in Linux-tracker soon.
Ultimate Linux 3.0 (without games) I was able to download through Linux-tracker in 2 days.
My quality of sleep is interrupted by two or more sources.
Number one is Global Warming and its attendant increase of mosquito menace.
Number two is my dog barking at night.
Number three is the fire crackers which my dog hates.
He does not sleep and so do I.
So to solve my quality problem, I need to bring down the ambient temperature.
With coal power and the rest of the factors contributing to its upward mobility I won’t be able to solve it.
I will try my ZERO carbon out put (that means I have to die) and failing which low carbon output.
I must go into Metta Meditation and the Dream Mode to conserve energy and low CO2 output.
When I do that mosquito attraction is less.
I will encourage the misquotes to breed in my water buckets.
Then add two or three Guppy fish when full of larvae.
Water plants of course I cannot use as vegetables but I will try to find a water plant that prevent mosquito breeding.
When I sleep well my dog also sleep well.
The mosquitoes reach me first and then the dog who is under the bed.
I cannot do anything about the fire crackers.
I will put some ear plugs and possibly to my dog’s ears too.
I do not think my dog will love ear plugs.
So those are the few steps of quality control I may employ coming year.
Mind you I will stop downloading Linux within the next few weeks.
I have enough in my archives now.

One of My Typical Dreams and its interpretation from Heaven
I had two bad nights in which I kept up all night doing some bizarre routines of editing a long text file into print form, downloading, burning iso images and testing them, blogging and making PowerPoint type of presentation with Google’s Free TripWoW.
 
I had a good night sleep yesterday and woke with a nice dream.
I thought Maha Brahma would be happy since the dream was related to heaven itself.
 
I was fed up with living on this planet with so much mosquitoes and very warm weather and sleeping only a brief period at night (reason for my keeping up at night is to thrash mosquitoes and send them to heaven instantaneously with my blessings).
They are crushed with rapid alternative and reciprocal movements of my hands closing together in symphony with mosquito music beating down by ears and the mosquitoes are not spared a moment of thought (thought block) of their own (when they die) and when they wake up, really reborn, they are there in heaven with Maha, fanning the senior Devas with hand held fans (instead of beating drums like on earth).
 
The Dream
I decided to vacate my post on earth and made an early entry to heaven, with the message in a long electronic PHP form.
1 made sure, I entered every cage, like when you fill the USA Visa forms, similar to our elderly politicians who wish to be born in America instead of heaven.
They call America the heaven on earth and only the most corrupt politicians that curry favour America, including Indians organizing IPL Cricket are allowed (Not Qaddafi Type) Visa to America and reborn again, there.
In my case I made sure I did not leave any gaps fearing anybody who enter the data into the computer might add unnecessary details that might prevent my qualification for entry to heaven.
Then I saw Maha himself going through the form personally because it was recognized as my personal writing by Maha.
However, he was not happy for not leaving any room inside and between cages where he can make some entries, if he so desires and put his stamp of approval.
This was very unusual for me unlike e-forms in the web where they make it compulsory for almost all the entries to be filled so that search engines can put you in some form of commercial category to market web goods and services at lib.
I was making a big fuss why do you make it so difficult like pension claims and Maha put his hand on my shoulder and said, you are trying to be very clever aren’t you?
With the press of his hand I felt very heavy shock and woke up.
Sadly I was not in heaven in my bed.
But I had a very pleasant sense of some ease and happiness that even in my dream I was speaking to the all almighty the Maha and not to a political big wig or a Ceylonese cricket selector who is a decider cum political leader who invites a yesteryear cricketer out of his skeleton cupboard to represent at Kingston Oval having looked at his previous record book on political affiliations.
Of course one gets a ticket to London and return on Cricket Board expenses.
Maha was bit puzzled.
He thought I really wanted to join him in a hurry and deprive him some good dreams from earth.
Equally he was concerned I was pulling a fast one to get some facilitator for rear entry like our old politicians and national thinkers who are almost demented but want to secure a National List MP Post.
Did you really dream this?
Of course, I replied.
Do you know how the leave is granted in heaven?
Not a slightest bit of idea, Sir.
Then he calmed down a lot and said, this was a good dream and it is futuristic and does not apply to you.
I was relieved.
Why were you concerned about NOT leaving gaps in the e-form.
It is like this.
In heaven we grant leave to all applicants irrespective of their need.
But one has to leave a little space as a grace, offering me some administrative work space which is mandatory.
You have to mention the date of commencement only and not the date of return.
In our case what is important is the date of return.
Not the date of commencement, Sir.
We tend to fall sick for no reason, if the leave is not granted and if the date of return is not entered, then there is a bigger problem.
It is not like that in heaven since we leave the date of return cage empty, I can just put a date at random when things demand and automatically the server sends an email alert with nice music to wake up the angels on leave on the right day.
By doing this I never have the problem of everybody applying for leave at the same time.
Or I see.
Do they sleep on holidays and do you go to other heavens for vacation?
I suppose they do so, but they get easily bored when on leave and want to come back and activate their inborn desires and pastimes like listening to music, bit of gossiping about earth and it’s politics and interpreting dreams like what I am doing, now.
Did your boss real Maha leave an empty space.
No.
My goodness.
That is why I am stuck here.
I do not have a space to make an entry and call him back even if I wanted to.
So this new regulation is one of your own creations to call back whenever you need somebody.
Yes, that was why I was bit worried and thought you are trying a fast one to get to grips with administration here even before coming here.
It is like our U.G.C Chairman putting a backdated regulation for his own survival.
Can I put an entry without empty spaces.
I will let you do that since now you know my devises but do not tell other gods and angles.
OK,OK.
 
Dream Interpretation.
The interpretation is very simple because it relates mostly to Ceylon.
In future when the future presidents want some things for himself he calls the guy /girls to the president house and give them a sumptuous meal.
Then he gets you to sign some blank papers undated and make you to leave gaps in the entry form.
For example you have a Tourist Hotel which is very popular at the beach side.
He comes there for a holiday and become interested in the property.
He invites you to his house for a drink and get all the papers ready for a 10 year rolling lease period.
So that is the end of the property, I guess.
Yes, especially if the guy or girl rub shoulders at a re-election or of the ruling party.
The problem is he will do this to the entire registered population with in one year of election.
Only one census is enough and he will own the entire length and breath of the country.
How big is the country then?
The sea has advanced almost to Kandy and all the population is now in the hills and population is 100 times now.
If they do not sign what happens?.
They are loaded and sent as refugees to India by boat and India has 100,000 times more people than now and their sea has advanced almost to foothills of Himalaya.
There is no room for someone to lie down and all are standing upright and one out of thousand get a chance to lie down once a year for a holiday break for 10 to 15 minutes.
The humans have mutated a lot and have very strong legs and very long tapering hands to reach even trees (or for begging) and hang on for few minutes a day to give the legs a break and that also has to be done in turns and there is a token that handshake like a tablet (Like in Ethernet and railway) that pass around from hand to hand and one can keep it only for few minutes lest you get a teaser shock with a laser satellite in orbit.
One takes the table in one hand and reach a branch of a tree and let go the tablet before the tracer shock is given.
What about the toilets.
There is no problem, there is an automatic suction tube that sucks urine and scat separately even when one does not have the urge to go and they are used for new form of energy and water is recycled for reuse.
This is similar to the space technology developed in the shuttle.
What about the air one breaths.
One has to open an insurance policy, the moment one is born for air safety (security) and it is controlled by the Government in power and the President himself is in charge.
Process is similar to water and electricity bills but more expensive and the cleaning plants for air are connected to the same tube that suck out all excreta but with a different and safe viaduct for (breathing) air.
Free air is polluted and one cannot breath it.
I do not think you should worry about these little things you will be gone many moons before this happens.
Where to?
I am not suppose to tell you when you are still a human.
 
OK;
See you soon.
He disappeared in a flash.

Do Dogs Dream=D.D.D?
The next question is, if they do, can you detect when your dog dreams?
I am convinced that my dog dreams as well as me when on holidays.
In my case I dream on working days not on holidays.
If I dream on a holiday I consider myself sick or going to be sick.
So make sure that you do not dream on holidays; otherwise it will make the next day of YOUR holiday a misery.
In actual fact, on holidays we sleep less, do more things (as far as I am concerned) and enjoy life more.
We do not have to dream like when we are working, on holidays.
When on holidays do not dream BUT make better use of the holiday.
In any case holiday is dream come true so act on your instinct.
I have cut and pasted the probable answer/s to above but let me tell my story.
Our prolong strike (please note, I made a resolution not to write anything to amuse the readers, during the srike period) made me to observe my dog and it was a welcome change.
I was bored to death.
To begin with we synchronized our sleep.
My dreams became less and less.
I was sleeping a lot and started getting up at bizarre times when my dog was fast sleep.
Fearing I disturb his sleep, I stealthily get out of my bed and do something mundane, like sorting out my books or files or photographs.
Then I quickly lost interested in them and one day, started watching my dog who was well into its sleep.
This became a habit.
He gets into postures which were its puppy days’ habits and happy days reproductions
The dog was in complete meditative relaxation.
He does not get up at these times and enjoy them.
I am convinced he dreams well when I am on holiday without any E.E.G. records.
So if you are bored try watching your dog and try to identify the times he or she dreams.
I believe dogs need a good dose of happy dreams.
Well there is another question to wind up.
What is the single most common dream in Ceylon?
According to my survey results, every Ceylonese dreams of becoming the president of this country.
Then he gets up happy but when he realizes that it was a dream he is frightened to death.
He knows only one can become the president and that is also indefinitely and he does not have a fighting chance even in a dream state.

He/She does not tell the dream even to the respective spouse.

Please do not tell this to the president.
If you do so, I am sure it will be gazetted soon “dreaming is prohibited”.

Read the article below if you have time.

Do Dogs Dream?
Dogs dream like humans and about similar things.
Published on October 28, 2010 by Stanley Coren, Ph.D., F.R.S.C. in Canine Corner
Many people believe that dogs do dream.
Most dog owners have noticed that at various times during their sleep, some dogs may quiver, make leg twitches or may even growl or snap at some sleep-created phantom, giving the impression that they are dreaming about something.
At the structural level, the brains of dogs are similar to those of humans. Also, during sleep the brain wave patterns of dogs are similar that of people, and go through the same stages of electrical activity observed in humans, all of which is consistent with the idea that dogs are dreaming.
Actually if dogs didn't dream this would be a much greater surprise given that recent evidence suggests that animals that are simpler and less intelligent than dogs seem to dream.
Matthew Wilson and Kenway Louie of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have evidence that the brains of sleeping rats are functioning in a way that irresistibly suggests dreaming.
Much of the dreaming that you do at night is associated with the activities that you engaged in that day. The same seems to be the case in rats. Thus if a rat ran a complex maze during the day he might be expected to dream about it at night. While a rat was awake and learning the maze, electrical recordings were taken from its hippocampus (an area of the brain associated with memory formation and storage).
Researchers found that some of these electrical patterns were quite specific and identifiable depending upon what the rat was doing. Later, when the rats were asleep and their brain waves indicated that they had entered the stage where humans normally dream, these same patterns of brain waves appeared. In fact the patterns were so clear and specific that the researchers were able to tell where in the maze the rat would be if it were awake, and whether it would be moving or standing still. Wilson cautiously described the results, saying, "The animal is certainly recalling memories of those events as they occurred during the awake state, and it is doing so during dream sleep and that's just what people do when they dream."
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Since a dog's brain is more complex and shows the same electrical sequences, it is reasonable to assume that dogs are dreaming, as well. There is also evidence that they dream about common dog activities. This kind of research takes advantage of the fact that there is a special structure in the brain-stem (the pons) that keeps all of us from acting out our dreams. When scientists removed or inactivated the part of the brain that suppresses acting out of dreams in dogs, they observed that they began to move around, despite the fact that electrical recordings of their brains indicated that the dogs were still fast asleep. The dogs only started to move when the brain entered that stage of sleep associated with dreaming. During the course of a dream episode these dogs actually began to execute the actions that they were performing in their dreams. Thus researchers found that a dreaming pointer may immediately start searching for game and may even go on point, a sleeping Springer Spaniel may flush an imaginary bird in his dreams, while a dreaming Doberman pincher may pick a fight with a dream burglar.
It is really quite easy to determine when your dog is dreaming without resorting to brain surgery or electrical recordings. All that you have to do is to watch him from the time he starts to doze off. As the dog's sleep becomes deeper his breathing will become more regular. After a period of about 20 minutes for an average-sized dog his first dream should start. You will recognize the change because his breathing will become shallow and irregular. There may be odd muscle twitches, and you can even see the dog's eyes moving behind its closed lids if you look closely enough. The eyes are moving because the dog is actually looking at the dream images as if they were real images of the world. These eye movements are most characteristic of dreaming sleep. When human beings are awakened during this rapid eye movement or REM sleep phase, they virtually always report that they were dreaming.
I recently received a letter from Joseph Baker, which seems to confirm the idea of dogs having dreams about their everyday activities. I have taken the liberty of reproducing part of it here.
"I have an anecdote that you may find interesting, however it requires some back story. About three years ago I heard a story on the radio about a cognitive scientist who was trying to understand sleep and dreams. He had a hypothesis describing how sensory memories replay themselves during early REM sleep. The study he published had subjects play Tetris [a computer game where you try to line up falling blocks of various colors] and then report whether or not they saw the little Tetris bricks in their dreams. This stuck with me because the previous night I had very vivid dreams involving a hike I had been on earlier. I could feel the snow and smell the air as though it were real.
"This brings me to my dog. Goober is a basenji, and like many basenjis he hates water and being bathed. As soon as my wife finishes bathing him he bolts out of the bathroom door, finds me, and tries to hide behind me or under me. So one day Goober was forced to be cleaned and underwent his ritual of hiding behind me. Later that night he was sleep running. He awoke with a start, and then bolted to my location to hide under my legs. This was very awkward as I was sitting on the toilet at the time. I believe that he was dreaming, and I believe that he was dreaming about having a bath. I believe this because he only engages in this behavior when a bath is involved."
Well Joe, I believe that there are at least two psychologists at MIT who would agree with you.