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Dreamer
This is a novel about that voice in your mind. A small group of individuals are given the opportunity to use technology to visit their own memories. One of the group returns to the early 1950s to visit his wife; another returns to her young teen years and a third visits the past to collect song titles for a marketing project. Guiding their way through the darkness of their past is the ever-present voice of their guide and technician who has the means to bring them back from their "dreams" in an instant--if things go bad. And of course, they do.
Before it is over the characters--and the reader will question what it means to "remember." Are memories real. . .or is something else going on that no one expected?
If you liked Flashforward, the final seasons of LOST, and the 2010 film "Inception," you will be hooked on Dreamer.
Some
Alexander Eliot, author of "The Universal Myths" and "The Global called Dreamer "An enormously fresh spacetime horizon." Psychologist and consciousness research Dr. Charles T. Tart "I enjoyed Dreamer greatly. The story has a haunting quality that kept me coming back for the next chapter and the next and the next. The atmosphere of the edge of the visual field possibilities was well done."
"Exciting and fun! And it's got a hidden tie-in with real consciousness research!" -- Evan Harris Walker, author of The Physics of Consciousness, the Quantum Mind and the Meaning of Life.
Physicist and former CERN researcher Giu Prisco
" I have been strongly impressed by Dreamer and wish to recommend it to everyone.
Funded by some government agency, a clinic recruits volunteers for a "total recall" memory retrieval project. With the help of hypnosis and suitable technology patients are able to travel within their own memories and re-experience their past in all detail. The main character Mike is in advertising and participates in the project hoping to retrieve useful memories of the sixties' look-and-feel. Of course, he becomes more and more involved with his own past friends and love stories. Miller's accounts of Mike's trips to the past are very good visual descriptions of America in the sixties. Of course Mike and his fellow patients start by experiencing the past as passive observers (like watching a movie), but at some point things become more complex, with questions on the deep structure of reality and hints at "many-worlds"-like (Everett) interpretations of quantum physics.
Surprisingly for a book with a lot of challenging intellectual content, Dreamer is very well written and has believable characters in the past and in the present.
Besides foundational work in quantum physics Miller acknowledges a debt to Ernest R. Hilgard's psychology book "Divided Consciousness".
Dreamer is available as a paperback on Amazon.com, ISBN 0-9669414-1-1
Before it is over the characters--and the reader will question what it means to "remember." Are memories real. . .or is something else going on that no one expected?
If you liked Flashforward, the final seasons of LOST, and the 2010 film "Inception," you will be hooked on Dreamer.
Some
Alexander Eliot, author of "The Universal Myths" and "The Global called Dreamer "An enormously fresh spacetime horizon." Psychologist and consciousness research Dr. Charles T. Tart "I enjoyed Dreamer greatly. The story has a haunting quality that kept me coming back for the next chapter and the next and the next. The atmosphere of the edge of the visual field possibilities was well done."
"Exciting and fun! And it's got a hidden tie-in with real consciousness research!" -- Evan Harris Walker, author of The Physics of Consciousness, the Quantum Mind and the Meaning of Life.
Physicist and former CERN researcher Giu Prisco
" I have been strongly impressed by Dreamer and wish to recommend it to everyone.
Funded by some government agency, a clinic recruits volunteers for a "total recall" memory retrieval project. With the help of hypnosis and suitable technology patients are able to travel within their own memories and re-experience their past in all detail. The main character Mike is in advertising and participates in the project hoping to retrieve useful memories of the sixties' look-and-feel. Of course, he becomes more and more involved with his own past friends and love stories. Miller's accounts of Mike's trips to the past are very good visual descriptions of America in the sixties. Of course Mike and his fellow patients start by experiencing the past as passive observers (like watching a movie), but at some point things become more complex, with questions on the deep structure of reality and hints at "many-worlds"-like (Everett) interpretations of quantum physics.
Surprisingly for a book with a lot of challenging intellectual content, Dreamer is very well written and has believable characters in the past and in the present.
Besides foundational work in quantum physics Miller acknowledges a debt to Ernest R. Hilgard's psychology book "Divided Consciousness".
Dreamer is available as a paperback on Amazon.com, ISBN 0-9669414-1-1
814 pages, Paperback
First published October 28, 2000
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