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What is the mysterious Dream-Share manual?
It arrived mysteriously — weathered, beaten and stamped “classified.” But after thumbing through its dirty and heavily redacted pages, it’s clear that the Dream-Share: Tactical Employment Procedures manual is a puzzling mind-wipe.
The clues arrive in seven choppy chapters with graphic illustrations and loads of black ink: “Specialists/Operatives,” “Environment Creation,” “The Dream/Waking World Relationship,” “The Hostile Subconscious,” “Warfare in the Dream” and “Interrogation Techniques.”
The technical manual connects concretely to the real world in the clever cryptonym of its final chapter, “PASIV Device Instructions.” That section’s rough illustration presents a well-dressed agent carrying a suspicious briefcase, as well as an online address where readers can download a copy of the PASIV Device Technical Manual.
What a head trip.
We need Wired.com detectives like you to help nail down its mysterious origin, so we’ve uploaded the entire Dream-Share: Tactical Employment Procedures manual. If you’ve sussed out this surreal mystery’s meaning, let us know in the comments section below.
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The manual’s first chapter, “Specialists/Operatives,” seems a mostly straightforward affair. Although thick black boxes blot out whatever textual direction existed before the Dream-Share’s censors got hold of it, the illustrations present a diverse crew of possible agents: a soldier, an architect and what looks like a very cautious chemist. Careful with that beaker, Eugene!
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Thursday, June 3, 2010
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