When You Can Walk on Water, Take the Boat - Webs

larly by those who know how. There are some of us who
commute to other times just as simply and easily as you
commute to other places.”
“Were you in my house the other night?”
“Sitting on your piano bench. <strong>You</strong> couldn’t see me, but
your friend, June, did.”
“Why couldn’t I see you?”
“<strong>You</strong> were looking only with your physical eyes. Had
you looked with your inner eye, you would have seen me too.”
“Things like an inner eye and time travel seem so
much like science-fiction to me. Do you really think that people
can travel through time? I mean... .”
He interrupted me. “<strong>You</strong> already travel through time.
One method should be obvious. <strong>You</strong> were awake at six-thirty
this morning and it’s almost ten-thirty now. <strong>You</strong> have traveled
almost four hours since you got up this morning.”
“That’s silly. Everyone does that.”
“Because it’s so obvious, no one ever observes the
process carefully. It’s taken for granted. It’s called existing or
living. The other method is more fun, or more frightening, depending
on the encounters. <strong>You</strong> travel through time in your
dreams. There it happens automatically. The conscious mind is
removed from its monitoring functions. The other parts of you
which accept the seemingly miraculous as natural function in
their own time and space.”
“But that happens without any rhyme or reason.
Dream times are uncontrollable.”
“Not quite, if you really understand how it works. What
time does your watch read right now?”
“Ten-thirty on the dot.”
“I'll give you a demonstration. Think of a time in your
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