A few weeks ago, I had a dream.
I was sitting outside people watching at a park. It was warm and sunny and I
felt, well good. Somebody next to me whispered in my ear, “Your camera is not
dead. I patiently replied without looking at the unidentified person, “Yeah, it
is. I can’t focus it. The auto focus is dead.” The person whispered back, “That
is a lens issue. You need a new lens, but your camera is fine.” I woke up, for
a few minutes I thought “YAY, Nikki can be fixed!” I then realized, “ …..Oh, stupid
dream.” and proceeded with my day. At this point everybody who has bothered to
read their digital SLR instructions, is thinking, “Duh, moron, listen to the
camera whisperer…she is right.” It turned out, it took me a minute to think,
wait a minute, it IS the lens. Long story short, Nikki the Nikon is alive and
well after a quick, (as in let’s break speed records) trip down to my favorite
Camera Department.
Who was the camera whisperer?
Several decades ago, my then
fiancé’s brother was getting married. There was a problem with a detail in the
wedding plans and Joe, my fiancee needed to talk to him about it. Joe went to be
early leaving instructions with his father that when Pete his brother came home,
he should wake Joe up so they can talk about the problem. Pete worked late
shifts and would not be home until quite late. The next morning I went to Joe’s
and he said Pete had not waken him, that his father probably forgot to tell him
to do so. Later that night, Peter, Joe and I were hanging out, when Peter told
him this story: It seems Peter indeed went downstairs to wake up Joe after Joe.
The conversation went like this:
“Hey Joe, Pop told me to wake
you. You say there is a problem with the wedding plans.”
Groggily, Joe seemingly awake
said, “Yes, the current and the voltage don’t match.”
Confused and amused Pete tried
again, Joe, Joe, what the hell are you talking about. Wake up.”
“Yeah, Pete, I’m awake, what?”
“What’s the problem with the
wedding plans?”
“Pete,” replied Joe, “The
current and the voltage don’t match”
“Yeah,” said Pete, resigned that
Joe is obviously to far gone in dreamland, “I’ll talk to you tomorrow”
Joe was fast asleep before Pete
could finish the sentence.
It was a good thing that Pete
told him what he had said in his sleep that night when it seemed like Joe was
awake. You see, Pete gave him the answer to a problem Joe, an engineer, was
having at work.
The brain was my camera
whisperer, and Joe’s work whisperer. Somewhere in the parts that Scientists say
we likely do not use consciously we have answers and we have to go to sleep to
get the answers. This is a simple explanation for something so small, our
brains but so unbelievably amazing and maybe magical, supernatural and maybe
theological.
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