• ositairoku said on Oct 24, 2007....

  THE CURE FOR DISEASE X

  By Osita N. Iroku

   

  On October 21st, 2007, while asleep and dreaming, I saw a close-up cross-section picture of a vein within the human body that had two serums injected into it. One serum was brownish, the other greenish. A voice in the dream revealed to me that the serums were supposed to be a cure for a disease, but did not reveal the name of the disease. I was also told that the developers of the serum were trying to replicate a natural resistance to the disease found in some native population. The voice informed me of the difficulties the scientific researchers involved in the development of the serum were facing. I was given a few clues as to how additional progress could be made. The answers presented in the dream seem quite simplistic, almost too elementary to merit serious consideration. I felt obligated, however, to review the possibility of dreams really being a source for scientific breakthroughs, and the actual meaning of the images and terms in my dream, before sharing this story with anyone.

   

  Even though I found a lot of good arguments in support of the veracity of prophetic dreams, and the possibility that the thesis herein presented has merit, I have to admit I do not feel comfortable asserting any of these hypotheses as facts. Rather, I would prefer to let the result of my research speak for itself.

   

  1. Dream Revelations Are Common

   

  When God said “it shall come to pass in the last days, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams,” He may have hinted that a time would come when a lot of answers to a lot of questions about the universe we live in will be answered directly by his angels, whispering into our ears at night.

   

  It's no wonder, then that dreams have been a source of inspiration for many famous artistic masterpieces. For instance, Paul McCartney’s song "Yesterday" has the most cover versions of any song ever written and, according to record label BMI, was performed over seven million times in the 20th century. As McCartney tells it, "I woke up with a lovely tune in my head. I liked the melody a lot, but because I'd dreamed it, I couldn't believe I'd written it. I've never written anything like this before. But I had the tune, which was the most magical thing!"

   

  Novelist Stephen King described that the inspiration for Misery didn't come from a real-life incident. "Like the ideas for some of my other novels, it came to me in a dream. I fell asleep on the plane, and dreamt about a woman who held a writer prisoner and killed him, skinned him, fed the remains to her pig and bound his novel in human skin. I said to myself, 'I have to write this story.' I wrote the first forty or fifty pages right on the landing, between the ground floor and the first floor of the hotel. I've always used dreams the way you'd use mirrors to look at something you couldn't see head-on, the way that you use a mirror to look at your hair in the back. To me that's what dreams are supposed to do. I think that dreams illustrate the answers to problems in symbolic language."

   

  Anne Rice, another leading writer, also noted she uses dreams, especially those more ‘intentionally’ provided for her books.

   

  Even athletes like famed golfer Jack Nicklaus found a new way to improve his game in a dream. In 1964, Nicklaus was having a bad slump and routinely shooting in the high seventies. After suddenly regaining top scores he reported: "Wednesday night I had a dream and it was about my golf swing. I was hitting them pretty good in the dream and all at once I realized I wasn't holding the club the way I've actually been holding it lately, but I was doing it perfectly in my sleep. So when I came to the course yesterday morning I tried it the way I did in my dream and it worked. I shot a sixty-eight yesterday and a sixty-five."

   

  Dreams are also credited educating people about matters or details that could not have possibly come from the conscious side of the brain. Srinivasa Ramanujan, for example, was one of India's greatest mathematical geniuses. In 1914, he was invited in to Cambridge University where he worked for five years producing over 3,000 theorems. According to Ramanujan, inspiration and insight for his work many times came to him in his dreams. A Hindu goddess, named Namakkal, would appear and present mathematical formulae which he would verify after waking. Ramanujan describes one of his dreams of mathematical discovery:

  "While asleep I had an unusual experience. There was a red screen formed by flowing blood as it were. I was observing it. Suddenly a hand began to write on the screen. That hand wrote a number of results in elliptic integrals. They stuck to my mind. As soon as I woke up, I committed them to writing..." Such dreams often repeated themselves and were a source for his work throughout his life.

   

  The average person may accept, and even expect testimonies of divine or spiritual inspiration from preachers, artists, athletes and musicians. Yet, the most stunning recounts of dream revelations and prophecies have been reported by the some of the most reserved businessmen and politicians. President Abraham Lincoln is just one of many examples. Just a few days prior to his assassination, he recounted the following dream to his wife: "About ten days ago, I retired very late. I could not have been long in bed when I fell into a slumber. I soon began to dream. There seemed to be a death-like stillness about me. I heard subdued sobs, as if a number of people were weeping. I thought I left my bed and wandered downstairs. I went from room to room; no living person was in sight, but the same mournful sounds of distress met me as I passed along. I was puzzled and alarmed. Determined to find the cause of a state of things so mysterious and so shocking, I kept on until I arrived at the East Room, which I entered. There I met with a sickening surprise. Before me was a catafalque, on which rested a corpse wrapped in funeral vestments. Around it were stationed soldiers who were acting as guards; and there was a throng of people, some gazing mournfully upon the corpse whose face was covered, others weeping pitifully. 'Who is dead in the White House?' I demanded of one of the soldiers. "The President" was his answer; "he was killed by an assassin!" Then came a loud burst of grief form the crowd, which awoke me from my dream."

   

  Madame C.J. Walker is cited by the Guinness Book of Records as the first female American self-made millionaire. She was also the first member of her family born free. Madame Walker founded and built a highly successful African-American cosmetic company that made her a millionaire many times over. Walker was suffering from a scalp infection that caused her to loose most of her hair in the 1890’s. She began experimenting with patented medicines and hair-care products. Then, she had a dream that solved her problems: “He answered my prayer, for one night I had a dream, and in that dream a big, black man appeared to me and told me what to mix up in my hair. Some of the remedy was grown in Africa, but I sent for it, mixed it, put it on my scalp, and in a few weeks my hair was coming in faster than it had ever fallen out. I tried it on my friends; it helped them. I made up my mind to begin to sell it.”

   

  Elias Howe invented the sewing machine in 1845. He had the idea of a machine with a needle which would go through a piece of cloth but he couldn't figure out exactly how it would work. Then one night he dreamt he was taken prisoner by a group of natives. They were dancing around him with spears. He noticed that their spears all had holes near their tips. When he woke up he realized that the dream had brought the solution to his problem. By locating a hole at the tip of the needle, the thread could be caught after it went through cloth thus making his machine operable. He changed his design to incorporate the dream idea and found it worked.

   

  During the Gulf War, Kevlar vests were in huge demand and DuPont set up a special high speed machine to create them. Unfortunately, it kept breaking down. Engineers could not figure out what was going wrong. Finally, one night one of the engineers had a dream. He dreamt he was actually part of the machine, and saw water spraying all over the place, along with hoses and springs. When he woke up, he realized that the hoses must be collapsing, and that springs would help keep them open. His co-workers were skeptical, but when they investigated the issue, they realized it was true.

   

  More amazing is the fact that dreams have been the source of more than a few scientific breakthroughs in our time. For instance, Otto Loewi, a German born physiologist, won the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1936 for his work on the chemical transmission of nerve impulses. In 1903, Loewi had the idea that there might be a chemical transmission of the nervous impulse rather than an electrical one, which was the common held belief, but he was at a loss on how to prove it. He let the idea slip to the back of his mind until 17 years later he had the following dream. According to Loewi: "The night before Easter Sunday I awoke, turned on the light, and jotted down a few notes on a tiny slip of paper. Then I fell asleep again. It occurred to me at 6 o'clock in the morning that during the night I had written down something most important, but I was unable to decipher the scrawl. The next night, at 3 o'clock, the idea returned. It was the design of an experiment to determine whether or not the hypothesis of chemical transmission that I had uttered 17 years ago was correct. I got up immediately, went to the laboratory, and performed a single experiment on a frog's heart according to the nocturnal design." Ultimately the result of his initial dream induced experiment became the foundation for the theory of chemical transmission of the nervous impulse and led to a Nobel Prize.

   

  Louis Agassiz was a Swiss born zoologist and geologist who emigrated to the US in 1846. He trained and influenced a generation of American zoologists and paleontologists and is one of the founding fathers of the modern American scientific tradition. While Agassiz was working on his vast work "Poissons Fossiles" a list of all know fossil fish, he came across a specimen in a stone slab which he was, at first, unable to figure out. He hesitated to classify it and extract it since an incorrect approach could ruin the specimen. Agassiz reports having a dream three nights in a row in which he saw the fish in perfect original condition. The first two nights, being unprepared, he did not record his image. By the third night he was ready with pen and paper, and when the fish appeared again in the dream he drew it in the dark, still half asleep. The next day he looked at his drawing which had remarkably different features from the ones he had been working out, hastened to his laboratory and extracting the fossil realized it corresponded exactly to his dream.

   

  Frederick Banting was born on November 14, 1891, in Alliston, Canada. He first studied divinity, but later turned to medicine. His mother passed away from diabetes, and Frederick turned his attention towards a cure. Others had linked diabetes to problems with insulin, but could not figure out the full connection and how it worked. Frederick kept working on the problem with no success. One night, frustrated, he went to sleep, dreamed of a solution, and woke up, understanding what experiment would give him the results he needed. After a few weeks, the experiment was complete and in 1923 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his discovery.

   

  This list goes on: German chemist Friedrich A. Kekulé visualized the molecular structure of benzene (a closed carbon ring) in a dream. 19th Century chemist Dimitri Mendeleyev saw in a dream that the basic chemical elements are all related to each other in a manner similar to the themes and phrases in music, and awoke to write out for the first time the entire periodic table, which forms the basis of modern chemistry. Niels Bohr, dreamt of how electrons remain in their orbits, and based on this vivid image was able to formulate his quantum theory, a scientific breakthrough for which he was eventually awarded a Nobel Prize. Young Albert Einstein dreamed that he was sledding approaching the speed of light, which caused the stars in his dream to change their appearance, which led to his extraordinary scientific achievement, the principle of relativity.

   

  There are too many examples of profound revelations given through or during dreams to detail all of them here. But even cursory research into the source of most modern breakthroughs reveals that a great percentage were derived from dream-like experiences, commonly called ‘spiritual’ inspirations.

   

   

  2. Understanding Dreams

   

  There is no proven fact on what a dream is, or why or how we dream.  There is Freud's theory that dreams carry our hidden desires and there is Jung's theory that dreams carry meaning, although not always of desire.  The Cayce theory is that dreams are the body’s way of building up mental, spiritual and physical strength.  Evans states that dreaming is the body’s way of storing the vast array of information gained during the day. Crick and Mitchinson say that this information is being dumped rather than stored. 

   

  The word ‘dream,’ in the context of this paper, refers to any experience of images, sounds, feelings, ideas, or other sensations (which are all hereinafter collectively referred to as ‘dream experiences’) during any state of consciousness that is not fully focused on the physical world (which state is hereinafter referred to as the ‘dream state’).

   

  My personal experience and understanding is that there are four possible ingredients to a dream: (a) residue or continuances of conscious and subconscious thoughts in progress prior to the dream state, (b) translations of physical sensations experienced during the dream state, (c) random auto-generations from the biochemical infrastructure of the brain and nervous system, and (d) metaphysical interference with our thought processes. It is irrelevant whether the events of the dreams are likely to occur in physical reality or if they are outside the control of the dreamer.  Contrary to popular science, the lucidness, remarkability, import or pertinence of a dream is not related to the stage of sleep the dreamer is in. Clear and memorable visions have been known to occur during light sleep as much as during deep or REM sleep.

  (a) Residue or continuances of conscious and subconscious thoughts in progress prior to the dream state (hereinafter referred to as ‘thought residue’) are basically dream experiences that are a product of the individual's conscious and unconscious mind, having to do with the total make-up of the dreamer’s personal current mental condition. Most images and symbols in these types of dreams are personal representations of the individual, other persons, places or things in the dreamer’s own life. The most common simple example is when a dreamer falls asleep while worrying about future performance at school or the workplace, and then dreams of arriving at school or the workplace naked. The bottom line is that the predominant thoughts of the person prior to falling asleep are converted into an imagined adventure regarding the subject matter of those respective thoughts.

   

  (b) The second class of possible ingredients or catalysts for a dream is the reception and translations of physical sensations experienced by the physical body while the mind is in the dream state. While sleeping, of course, the five physical senses of the human body do not shut down. As of matter of fact, they are often heightened. In the dream state, therefore, a dream principally generated or driven by any other dream catalyst or ingredient can and will be modified by the introduction of any sensations to the dreamer’s ears, eyes, skin, tongue or nose. The most common and simple example of this is when someone is trying to wake a dreamer up by calling his name, and the dreamer is dreaming of himself in a place where he can hear someone calling his name, but can’t see or find the person calling him. Although such sensations will awaken a person dreaming in light sleep, when done subtly, this is the easiest way to externally influence a person’s dream.

   

  (c) Also found within the dream are representations that have nothing to do with the individual's personal awareness. Many of these dream experiences are random auto-generations from the biochemical infrastructure of the brain and nervous system. The unexpectedness of these events simply reflect the fact that the human brain, and all related synaptic activity, comprise the most powerful computer known to man, with the ability to auto-spawn new sub-routines undetected. This self-perpetuating software is the source of both wake and dream experiences, yet they are not fully controlled by the conscious mind. The mental experience, the situations we perceive ourselves to be in, whether real or imagined, are the result of cognitive processes related to reception, recall, interpretation, and syntaxes of which a person may or may not be aware. The dream is about the total human experience and most of the images and themes are taken from the vast vault of experiences from the dreamer's life, but also has a reference to the archetypal motifs, universal themes. These are what Carl Jung called the archetypal images, images that are from the collective knowledge of all mankind, and their images are tendencies of the human mind that form representations of mythological motifs - representations that can vary a great deal without losing their basic patterns. A simple example is when a person’s brain receives and store’s snippets of information from a conversation that took place in the background of the workplace ten years ago. The brain retrieves that information at random during a dream, and combines it together with bits and pieces of other mental scraps to create a situation in the dream that is totally unrecognizable to the dreamer. Thus, a dreamer can wake up from an accurate three-dimensional stroll through Parisian streets, although he has never been to Paris, because his brain took brief comments from a conversation he never really had, married them to images from a postcard he never really looked at, and coupled that together with scenes and music from a movie he never really watched. That is the power of the ever-active automated insubordinate human brain. When this power overwhelms the ability of the person to control the unreal experiences generated by the brain, the person is said to be schizophrenic. Approximately 0.5% of the human population has this problem.

   

  (d) The other influences on dreams that have nothing to do with the dreamer’s personal knowledge are metaphysical interferences. This creativity lies within the metaphysical condition, that which is beyond the normal known physical realm of being, and is seen in all the forms of creativity within our society. It is thought that the creative self is a condition of the collective unconscious, where the knowledge of the universal exceeds the personal knowledge and taps into the inner resources of nature, heaven or God Himself. These resources, help mankind discover and map our way from one epoch to the next.

   

   

  3. Rationale for Remembering and Interpreting My Dream

   

  Freud's discussion of why dreams are forgotten touches a variety of the concerns of modern cognitive psychology, including the fact that the study of dream influences their recall: “[T]here is another fact to be borne in mind as likely to lead to dreams being forgotten, namely that most people take very little interest in their dreams. Anyone, such as a scientific investigator, who pays attention to his dreams over a period of time, will have more dreams than usual-which no doubt means that he remembers his dreams with greater ease and frequency.” Although I am no Freud or Einstein, I do believe in dreams enough to record them regularly. Over the last decade, this has made me, according to Freud, fairly adept at remembering even the tiniest of details, even when I do not understand the imagery at all.

   

  In this instance, a picture similar to the one below was shown to me two or three times in back-to-back recurring dreams, accompanied by the terms ‘cocktail’, ‘naturally resistant population’, and ‘they need a cure’.

   

  (a) HIV/AIDS Treatments Are Popular as Cocktails: I’m not sure it refers to HIV/AIDS or some other epidemic, but HIV/AIDS came to mind, because of the popularity of its cocktails. So far, the combination treatment is the closest thing medical science has to an effective therapy. The key to its success in some patients lies in the drug combination's ability to disrupt HIV at different stages in its replication. Reverse transcriptase inhibitors, which usually make up two drugs in the regimen, restrain an enzyme crucial to an early stage of HIV duplication. Protease inhibitors hold back another enzyme that functions near the end of the HIV replication process. The combination can be prescribed to those newly infected with the virus, as well as AIDS patients.

   

  FDA approved the first drug specifically to combat HIV and AIDS in 1987. Commonly known as AZT (zidovudine), it is in the family of reverse transcriptase inhibitors called nucleoside analogs. Others in this class include ddi (didanosine), ddc (zalcitabine), D4T (stavudine), 3TC (lamivudine), and Ziagen (abacavir). In 1997, FDA approved Combivir, a mixture of AZT and 3TC that allows patients to reduce the number of pills needed, which can be upwards of 20 a day for certain drug combinations.

   

  Viramune (nevirapine), the first reverse transcriptase inhibitor in a class called non-nucleoside analogs, was approved in 1996. The following year, FDA approved a related drug, Rescriptor (delavirdine). In 1998, a third drug in this class, Sustiva (efavirenz) was approved.

   

  Protease inhibitors, the last part of the triple cocktail, have only been on the market about thirteen years. FDA approved the first one, Invirase (saquinavir), in late 1995.

   

  Others approved since include Norvir (ritonavir), Crixivan (indinavir), Viracept (nelfinavir), and Agenerase (amprenivir). Viracept was the first of its class to be labeled for use in children and adults. Norvir and Agenerase are now approved for children as well. FDA also has approved Fortovase, a new formulation of saquinavir that comes in a soft gelatin capsule that allows more drug to be absorbed into the body than the earlier version.

   

  (b) HIV/AIDS Has A Naturally Resistant Population: HIV/AIDS also came to mind, because I know that at least two teams of scientists reported that people born with changes in both copies of a gene, called CKR5, seem to have a natural resistance to HIV-1 infection. Now, taking this landmark finding one step further, another team of researchers confirmed that people who inherit two altered copies of the CKR5 gene avoid HIV infection even after being exposed to the virus many times. The scientists found that the 17 people in the study exposed to HIV-1 who had dual mutations in CKR5 were free of HIV infection, strongly suggesting they have a natural resistance to the virus. In addition, the scientists report that people who have one normal and one altered copy of CKR5 do become HIV-positive, but they tend to progress slowly to full-blown AIDS and often live longer than most people infected with the virus. These findings, which come from analyzing the DNA of 1,955 people whose HIV status has been tracked for many years, provides the strongest evidence to date that treatments targeting CKR5 and/or its protein could help people infected with HIV-1 keep the virus in check.

   

  (c) We Still Need A Cure: But most importantly, I thought of HIV/AIDS, because although many people are living strong and otherwise healthy lives with HIV/AIDS today due in no short part to new medical cocktails, too many others are living with debilitating side-effects from these medications, and the combination of fatigue and lack of productivity has made their future seem anything but bright or certain. And despite all the progresses made, AIDS is still among the six infectious diseases which kill 50% of the world's children and young adults.

   

  Moreover, a new strain of HIV is resistant to current medications. Recent studies suggest differences in the responses to AZT treatment between HIV-1- and HIV-2-infected persons. A total of 5 wild type HIV-2 viruses including 3 clinical isolates (GB122HU, CDC77618, and CDC310319) and 2 laboratory-adapted strains (ROD and CBL-20/H9) were used in the analysis. For comparison, 4 wild type HIV-1 strains (HXB2, CC/H9, IIIB/H9, and LAI) and 1 HIV-1 mutant carrying the 215S mutation (HXB2S215) were evaluated in parallel. All 5 HIV-1 strains acquired AZT resistance mutations after 3 to 6 passages with AZT or an increase in the concentration of AZT of 4- to 32-fold. Among these viruses, the fastest selection of resistance was seen in HXB2S215, which acquired S215Y (1 nucleotide change only) at passage 3 after only 17 days in culture. In contrast, none of the 5 HIV-2 viruses that naturally have S215 acquired S215Y or any other RT mutation during 10 passages with AZT or an increase in the concentration of AZT of 1024-fold, indicating absence of selective pressure. In the presence of AZT+ddI, both AZT and ddI resistance mutations were seen in HIV-1, while only mutations that are known to be associated with ddI resistance (K65R and M184I) were seen in HIV-2. All HIV-2 viruses replicated efficiently in a high concentration of AZT (12.2 mug/mL; 2800-fold higher than the EC50 value of HIV-1), and had EC50 values for AZT that were about 200-fold higher than those of HIV-1. In contrast, HIV-2 and HIV-1 were equally inhibited by ddI, a finding consistent with the selection of K65R and M184I in HIV-2 during passages with AZT+ddI. Therefore, the results demonstrate that HIV-2 is resistant to AZT and do not support the use of AZT to treat HIV-2-infected persons. These findings underscore the importance of developing new drugs specific for HIV-2 and indicate that the antiviral activity of AZT may not be as broad as previously thought.

   

  So, it is now clear that no pharmacologic agent, no educational efforts directed to safe sex, and no nutritional modification will stop this epidemic. As of January 2006, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the World Health Organization (WHO) estimate that AIDS has killed more than 25 million people since it was first recognized on June 5, 1981, making it one of the most destructive epidemics in recorded history. In 2005 alone, AIDS claimed an estimated 2.4–3.3 million lives, of which more than 570,000 were children. A third of these deaths are occurring in sub-Saharan Africa, retarding economic growth and destroying human capital. HIV/AIDS is still a major threat to the human population, a scar upon the face of the earth, and the leaders of every sector of society are very much still anxious to develop a vaccine which would completely protect against any HIV infection or AIDS.

   

  If it is true that dreams are meant to help mankind discover and map our way from one epoch to the next, what better way to do it than help us eradicate HIV.

   

  
  

  4. The Details of the Dream

   

   

   

  In any case, the voice in the dream instructed me as follows:

   

  The current methodology used to inoculate patients or clinical subjects against Disease X involves the introduction of two medicinal serums into the bloodstream together, at the same time, as a medical ‘cocktail’ (‘Clinical Cocktail’). One of these serums is greenish, the other is brownish (‘Serum G’ and ‘Serum B’), and they were engineered to replicate the chemical characteristics of two naturally occurring substances (‘Substance G’ and ‘Substance B’) found in the bloodstream of persons that have exhibited a natural resistance to Disease X (‘Population N’). Researchers found both Substances G and B occurring ‘naturally’ in Population N, and have assumed the substances occurred together as a natural composite (‘Natural Composite’).  Although the developers of the serums have had a measure of success in obtaining some positive responses to the Clinical Cocktail, they have not been able to fully replicate the level of complete resistance to Disease X that is induced in Population N by the Natural Composite.

   

  This setback is because the developers have not realized that Substance G and Substance B occurred independent of each other in Population N. And that at the introduction of Substance G, independent of Substance B, the host was conditioned to Resistance Stage One. Upon the introduction of Substance B, still independent of Substance G, the host was conditioned to Resistance Stage Two. Then, where and when Substance G and B chemically combined to form the Natural Composite, the host was conditioned to Resistance Stage Three, which is complete immunity to Disease X.

   

  That is to say, the occurrence of each substance independently triggered a biochemical reaction in the population that thereafter conditioned the population to respond a certain way to the combination of the substances.  In order to get the clinical subjects to respond to the serums in such a way that the clinical subjects become totally immune to Disease X, the serums should be introduced to the subjects separately, in such a manner that each serum has the opportunity to be absorbed into the bloodstream without contact with the other agent, before the cocktail is given.

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