A Journal of the Experiment entry on two conjoined dreams that forced a practical question in my consciousness-first inquiry: how to treat inner shifts as testable material—so I built an experiment log and started recording what changes, and what doesn’t.

From the first controlled fires to large language models, we’ve needed only a tiny sliver of cosmic time to build machines we already compare to Einstein. This Journal of The Experiment entry imagines an ancient “AI” with billions of years to perfect a simulation—and then asks what happens when we treat our own experience as that first dream of consciousness, still running.