The Future

It has just occurred to me today that the brilliant idea from that dream, the one I scribbled onto a piece of paper just after waking up, has similarities to an idea that another person conceived in a dream. The difference is that when he awoke and wrote it down, he was left only with a paper containing a few numbers and the phrase "all the mechanical complexity of a teapot."
The device of my dream, a simple plastic shape, literally has "all the mechanical complexity of a teapot." Could it be that this is the very same device? Could it be that this vision of the future is more than just a nocturnal hallucination?
Probably not, but I must still be prepared in whatever way I can. The things I saw in my dream must never be allowed to occur. We must always be capable of feeling pain. It is critical to our humanity.