I.D.

"All of our efforts to date have been read-only," Urquhart explained. "We've had some success producing synthetic verbal descriptions of dream activity. NVACS transcripts have recently achieved semantic correlation coefficients in the mid-eighties when compared to our subjects' dream logs; performance improves, obviously, in proportion to the extent of baseline data available to the system."

Weinburger from Sociology looked like nodding off. Urquhart took note.

"Tonight, however, we will attempt a more ambitious experiment. Gentlemen, you are about to take part in the world's first Interactive Dream."

Weinburger's eyes flicked open.