Friday, June 12, 2009

My Time Travel Adventure With Barack Obama



(the image is of Barack Obama with his feet on the Rutherford B Hayes desk - this picture haunts me - i saw this picture AFTER having the dream you are about to read.)

Last night I had an incredibly vivid and adventurous dream. This dream crossed over into the real world.​ (I went to bed earlier than I usually do so I had more time for more dreams).

The first one, had myself and President Barack Obama on a time travel mission.
We were sent back in time to the year 1876 to run Obama against Rutherford B Hayes in the presidential election of that year. He kept telling me I was part of his campaign staff that will make necessary adjustments to history. I kept looking around for a campaign staff and didn’t see anyone except me and Barack. I also kept noticing the setting we were in tremendously reminded me of my backyard in 1993. I kept explaining to Barack that I didn’t think we were in 1876 but in the year 1993….. in my backyard. Barack kept ducking behind Ruffley’s canoe and saying to me, “We are in the year 1876. I am here to run against Rutherford B Hayes to make necessary adjustments to history.


I went on to explain to him that I didn’t necessarily vote for him, but that I didn’t vote against him, I didn’t get to vote. I also told him I enjoyed a picture that a fan made during the campaign that exchanged his head with Marty McFly on the Back to the Future poster and it said “BARACK TO THE FUTURE” and how cool it was that here I was with Barack Obama traveling through time.

He gave me his big trademark smile and I felt like I had made friends with him and that he was kinda looking at me with that borderline “can you believe this is real” look in his eye implying, “I told you I would bring change….I’m the real Marty McFly, they scared of me cause I know how to travel through time ….and make necessary adjustments to history.”

I had asked him what if he beats Rutherford B Hayes, how will that affect all of history?

He said, “have you ever heard of Rutherford B Hayes?” I said I’ve heard of him. He said “what do you know about Rutherford B Hayes”. I said, “that he was a president, I think around the time of the civil war.”
He said, “that’s all you know about Rutherford B Hayes right?”
I said, “yeah.”
He said, “if that’s all you know about Rutherford B Hayes then what do you care how it will make necessary adjustments to history. It’s a big idea. I don’t know if you know what a big idea is there Jonathan. But it’s a big idea.” He paused …. He said, “What you might want to question is whether I’m from your time period or not… maybe I am Barack From The Future.” He smiled with his insane big smile and then inquisitively asked, “If you should discover that I’m not from your time, or from a parallel time, would you think of me differently, like in a negative way? Are time travelers offensive to you? Are you offended that we travel into other people’s time?”

I said, “you know, its funny you should ask because if I did find out you weren’t from my time it would alter my perspective of you, because …. And I never thought of this until you asked me, but all people of a period of time, we share our common timeline, we’re all from the same time, same planet.”

Barack: “So if I’m not from your time, you’d look at me differently, like I was different.”

Me: “I’m just exploring my feelings here, it’s a subconscious feeling but yeah I would feel like you’re different because you are from some mysterious time that I don’t know about, especially if it’s the future.”

Barack: “What if I spent a lot of time in your period of time, but was not initially from your time, but spent the majority of my experience of life in your time period? You know, like if I was born in a foreign country but spent the majority of my life in the United States?”

Me: “Having the ability to time travel puts you in like Superhuman category until others start doing it. The only time travelers I know of are John Titor, Al Bielek and people who have been part of time travel experiments. I might be concerned that you don’t have my period of time in your best interests, since you have access to all of time, of which we are now making … what have you been calling it? Necessary adjustments to history?”

Barack: “That’s a good point. And the difference is, I have the best interest of all of time, not just your time period. Sometimes necessary adjustments need to be made.”

Me: “I don’t mean to spoil the fun but I think we’re in my neighbor’s backyard in the year 1993 and not 1876.

Barack: “How do you know that if you don’t time travel?”

Me: “I don’t know, maybe because I don’t think this kind of grass existed back then and that’s my house, my house was built in 1976 not 1876 … in addition I never thought the past existed in full color, it should either be black and white or those watercolors the pictures are painted in …. but besides that, how are you going to run against Rutherford B Hayes? Nobody even knows you in this time period, and …. Dude …. Like I mean, I don’t think this way, and I know your mom was white and all that …. But I think these people are gonna probably think you should be a slave or something.”

Barack: “That’s where you come in. You gotta convince these people that I’m the right candidate for the presidency.”

Me: “Ok, Barack, I don’t even know the politics of this time, I have no frame of reference of the issues of their time and-“

Barack: “Stop. Whether I win or lose is inconsequential​.​ I am here to run against Rutherford B Hayes. I didn’t say anything about any outcome or if we’ll even still be here for the outcome. Oh, and would it surprise you if the past didn’t exist in color, but existed in the same colors you assumed it to?”

Me: “Some presidents exist only as paintings. Why are we making adjustments to history?”

Barack didn’t answer the question directly, He started acting like a Hollywood actor in a blockbuster drama:

Barack: “JFK…. Who killed JFK? Oswald? The Mafia? The Government? The Illuminati? The Russians? Castro? Makes you wonder about Castro’s rise to power doesn’t it? Why is Castro still there all this time? Have you ever considered that it wasm’t John F Kennedy in the car? That it was a look alike? How was his rise and fall so perfect? Camelot … all the women, the great looks, the war hero, all the greatest speeches, the quest for space, the nuclear standoff with Russia and no nukes got launched? Bay of pigs? How could they mess that up? His assassination so perfectly on television and repeated over and over again and still talked about to this day. What about Abraham Lincoln? What about how your history books change all the time? You don’t think adjustments to history weren’t made for all of this stuff to work out how it did? You think things can naturally occur so perfect? We have to make necessary adjustments to time. Why would the government help keep the conspiracy theories alive? Don’t be surprised if you see me fake my death when you get back to your time period. The people will believe its real. Even if it does happen, it may get adjusted over time. How do you think the Underground Railroad started? You don’t think time travelers went into those times and made adjustments? If you look at history and war, and try to understand the politics of things like Vietnam, if you approach it with the idea that there are long time timeline historical significances to things, you’ll understand why some things don’t have clear cut answers, and why some do. The dropping of 2 atomic bombs on Japan alter everything. All you gotta do is go back in time and call off that 1 mission and you change it all.

At that point a big thunder storm and lightning struck and Barack had a realization, (and in a dream things can all happen instantaneously​)​
Barack realized Rutherford B Hayes was saving and not spending his election money and investing his campaign contributions in a bond, some kind of security thing that he knew was gonna go up in value in the future to give him enough money to win the election and was forfeiting the early stages of the campaign cycle, as if Rutherford B Hayes also was time traveling, and was a time traveler from the future with insider trading tips and Barack realized that and then realized it was a losing call. Barack said, “I see the future, and its just fat cats in Washington getting richer.”

I don’t remember any more specific details to the dream, but I had fun with Barack, it was cool to feel like we traveled through time even though I felt like we traveled 16 years into the past, not 133. There was a corny montage scene where there was some happy song playing and it showed us on rollercoasters,​ enjoying cotton candy with a smile, and did all the silly things they show in movies that mock the cutesy fun time people have. I’m trying to remember if we ever got to 1876 but I’m not sure. I was trying to get him to want to do a rap song with me but he didn’t seem interested.

The strangest thing about the dream is I don’t know if I’ve ever even thought about Rutherford B Hayes in my life --- I understand Barack Obama being in my dream – but to go back in time to 1876 to contest Rutherford B Hayes in an election is nuts. I looked him up today on the internet, and found out he was in the closest election of all time that got delayed like the Bush-Gore election of 2000. Hayes thought he wouldn’t win the election when he went to bed and woke up and won by 1 vote, and I think its where they came up with the electoral college system.

The only thing I can think of hearing Rutherford B Hayes is if he was mentioned on the Jon Stewart “America Inaction Audiobook” that I listened to 2 weeks ago. But I don’t know if they mentioned his name on it. I’m trying to figure out what triggered Rutherford B Hayes. I mean really – who the heck thinks about Rutherford B Hayes?

Here is his whitehouse biography - which i read today after waking up - how strange is the story to my dream: If you read into it, it feels like there was a hidden hand involved in the election. I have been stunned all day that my mind would think of Rutherford B Hayes. RUTHERFORD B HAYES !!!
http:​/​/​www.​whitehouse.​gov/​about/​presidents/​RutherfordBHaye​s/​




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