On the web I find a strange animation, "The History of Energy". The figures are just small cartoons & silhouettes at first. We start off with...

• People walking on a dirt road...
• Then a herd of horses gallops past, to the left. The camera pans, following them, racing them... pulling ahead. They're chasing a...
• A massive coal train rumbling through a town. Our viewpoint glides alongside a bit faster than the train, up to the engine, up to...
• To find it's being towed on a rope by a pickup truck--coal towed by oil & gas! What's to the left isn't just a compass direction but the FUTURE.
• But the truck's being towed by a little hybrid or electric commuter car, and...
• The car's being towed by a solar-powered bicycle (though I don't see any panels, I know in the dream it's solar). Wait, this one bike is pulling the whole train?

Yes, it can. By a broom. A witch's broom, woven round with a sort of lacy shell of flowering vines, so the broom's just the drive train and seat of a levitating egg of life, an air-garden.

The rider's a small dragon, sipping tea.

She winks and says to me, not quite quoting Arthur Clarke, "The most efficient energy source is magic."

You heard it straight from the dragon's mouth...

NOTES IN THE MORNING

• Energy eras: today, after a long recording session for the Krelkins, I was exhausted and punchy; I did babble about successive energy-eras. Horsepower, coal, oil/gas, electricity. But I ended there! I forgot Clarke's maxim that future technology is inherently unpredictable by savages like us; it might as well be magic.
• Future eras tow the present: rather than showing our past problems driving future solutions, the dream has it the other way round: the locomotive pulling history's train is the future. The real drive, the real source of our energy is already magical, it's imagination, the dream of something better. Which legions of cynics just dismiss.
• Train, tea-sipping female dragon: this oddly specific image echoes Draconian Vacation, dreamed two years ago. But then, one of my dreamguides for decades has been a female dragon nicknamed Puff (yes, for that folk song) who likes to tell me inconvenient truths. Looks like she's back! And if I want more energy, I better listen. Because more won't come from physical sources--food, exercise. It comes from magic. Or might as well.

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