As if in a Dream, My one and only V.

Velocity, now there's a harsh mistress.   We travel on the third orbiter around the sun at 30 km/sec which is 66,000 miles per hour.  Of course we don't really feel that V unless we close our eyes and imagine it.  But who would ever want to do that?

The sun of course is also not stationary. Our Sun and Earth are moving at 43,000 miles per hour in the direction of the bright star Vega in the constellation of Lyra.  Of course, we really don't feel that V unless we close our eyes and imagine it.   But who would ever want to do that?

In addition to the individual motions of the stars within it, the entire Galaxy is rotating like an enormous pinwheel.   The sun makes a trip through the Galaxy in a "galactic year."  The Sun completes this huge circle at a velocity of 483,000 miles per hour.  The Earth is anchored by gravity to the Sun and follows at the same speed.   Of course, we don't really feel that V unless we close our eyes and imagine it.   But who would ever want to do that?

And of course, V controls not only our body but our mind.  Stop for a moment and take a few breaths.  The mind can move from where you are sitting to the wall in your abode with amazing speed.  For example, in a 2011 study conducted by Fudpucker et. al, in in the "Journal of Applied Velocity" calculated that the human perception at rest can move from various objects in our immediate surroundings at a velocity of 569 cm/sec which is almost a quarter of the speed of light.   Of course, we don't really feel that unless we close our eyes and imagine it.   But who would ever want to do that?

Lets assume now that we overcome our inhibitions and we do close our eyes and imagine V.  (I wonder what was holding us back in the first place?).  That's the premise that Dildoo et. al started with in their groundbreaking 2008 study published in their peer reviewed article in the "Velocity Quarterly."  Dildoo and his cohorts determined that when the eyes are closed and V is imagined, V actually increases to the point of infinity.  Hence, the fantastic fantastical speeds achieved during lucid dreaming.   Lucid dreaming allows the passenger to travel from the Earth to the outskirts of our Solar System, to the boundaries of the Milky Way galaxy and beyond in a matter of seconds. 

Fasten your seatbelts and close your eyes, you're going to get a big surprise!