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Ruth said: "He's dreaming and so is anyone else if they think a cure is going to be found in a few years!" Who's to say that what we experience in waking life is any more or less real than that which we encounter in our dreams? No offense intended here to Ruth or anyone else, but I'd rather be counted amongst the dreamers myself, if the fact that I believe in a pd cure to be imminent makes me one. I know very well, from experience, that belief in a negative outcome too often becomes reality, so I'd rather believe in a positive one, since I have the choice. Carlos Casteneda has a book called, "The Art of Dreaming," in which he describes what are essentially adventures and lessons he's had while trying to use his dreams to consciously visit other worlds in a sense. According to him, these states of consciousness are very real, and have great power, power which can spill over into "real" life, so we need to use a bt of caution when exploring these other worlds/states. Deepak Chopra talks about how both waking reality and dreams, as far as the brain itself is concerned, have the same reality. Perception, memories, thoughts, are to an extent, describable by chemicals and electrical signals in the brain, and between the brain and the rest of the body. If ya take it to that basic level, there is little difference between sleep and awake, other than the magnitude of the activity. I had a psychic tell me once that I did astral projection sometimes in my dreams. Frankly, I couldn't say for sure either way, but I have had some doozy dreams, which seemed at the time to be VERY real. That's a bit scary too tho', cuz I've heard of yogis nd other mystics who've done that from a state of meditation, and never came back! Whew! Anyway, I'll keep dreaming of a cure, until it manifests to where all have access to it. Can't hurt I figure. Wendy Tebay