The future in the present tense

Last night I did not get much sleep. But in the little sleep I did get I managed to have a pretty vivid dream. I was in the city, most likely Brooklyn because of the ruggedness of the streets and the way the streets looked. I was in and out of a house. The house had a glass exterior, like a half dome at the top of a building with nothing blocking its view from the sky that resembled the front of a spaceship. The interior of the house had all these cool gadgets to look out upon the universe. Every now and then I have refresher dreams about the cosmos. There is so much going on in the sky, and on earth we tend to never think much outside of our terrestrial boundries. Life has so much mystery yet to be discovered. Yet, we are caught up in our earthly disorder. We only live one life, and I chose to not let that life go to waste without at least acknowledging the immense presence of the universe that surrounds us, and the enormous potential it may have for life on other planets, and galaxies, and the potential it has to bring us into contact with things that we have yet to know. The latter part of the dream, which occurred in between the time of 5:20, and 5:50 am, was me at a slide lecture where I was about to make a presentation on my artwork, A look into one of my sketchbooks. I was coming up with a thesis statement for the presentation. The thesis statement was almost very clear. I was on the verge of tackeling the subject as I was awakened by my alarm, of course! I was going to say something about how I am very interested in artifacts from the past, like sculptures, and monuments of the ancient world because it gives me a perspective on the potential of mankind on the future. I was giong to open the statement by saying The past is< and the future is the present tense (this statement seemed a lot clearer as I was suddenly awakened by my alarm.) I was about to make a presentation where I was going to present drawings that I have made relating to history such as drawings of artifacts of the past, in conjuction with some of my futuristic abstracts. I am going to try and make sense of all of this by looking up quotes. I've been reading the Watchman and there's a character that is able to trancend time and space. The possibility of that, and the power of our memory make it entirely plausible that our existence is an immortal experience, if we are able to detach ourselves from the materialness and focus more on the spirituality and mental capacity of our experience. Overall, the fact is that we have only begun to understand the power of our brain, and the cosmos as a whole. We are venturing on the tip of the iceberg as far as our species capacity to understand the power beyond materiality. This is something to be pursued, questioned, and examined, all while keeping a close eye on the cosmos.