20 March 2014

Fungi

Three nights ago now, I had a peculiar and disturbing dream.  Curiosity was born:  what were the limits of fungi?  A particular semester I had taken a Genetics course (with the supplement co-requisite lab) with a professor who had a background in mycology.  This was easily made visible through some of the examples and anecdotes she used in her lectures and I greatly appreciate this.  Because I can still remember some of this and it pulls on my creative strings.  This came out in my dreams:

Can you imagine a collection of hyphae organized to mimic humans?  Sentient life that had a very real and visceral goal?  I dreamed that.  And quickly before I forget this past dream - fighting, packaging warehouse, goal, unkillable?, thought to be dead, urinal.  Anyway, those first two sentences sparked this desire to know more about fungi.  As well as the possible development of a little mini comic.

While doing some light research I came across Paul Stamets TED talk which I highly encourage you to watch here.  It just gives me a ton of ammo with which to take this prospective comic to.  And there's so much more information out there!

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