Telephony trunking is a concept by which a communications system can provide network access to many clients by sharing a set of lines or frequencies instead of providing them individually. This is analogous to the structure of a tree with one trunk and many branches. A trunk is a single transmission channel between two points, each point being either the switching center or the node.    During the summer months of the early 1960's bored teens had discovered what we called the hot line on our household telephones. Pick up the phone, slap the on/off receiver switch a few times and like magic you were in what was called a trunk. It sounded like a big auditorium with all the kids in your neighborhood shouting out to one another. It was fun, romantic and often the place to make plans with everyone and anyone. Unfortunately, Ma Bell corrected the issue and the hot line fell into history.    In 1976, my uncle George Bliss learned of my affection for my ham radio as well as my interest in what the college kids were doing with communication over the ARPnet. The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, was the world's first operational packet switching network and the core network of a set that came to compose the global Internet. Uncle George was a delivery truck driver and one stop along his route was at the Sperry-Rand computer center on Long Island. As a surprise, he arranged for me to walk right into a hermetically sealed computer room and put hands and eyes on the first reel to reel computers I ever saw. The experience left me drop-dead in love with computers. While in the room a technician further amazed me by explaining that the data being received and transmitting to and from the machines came from and went out to any location that had a phone line.  A weak electrical current  carried it from here to there. Within that current were sent packets of information called data. Not a radio signal or a TV signal. These  ordinary signals I grew up with and understood. Computer communications was above my head, yet interested me to no end.    Later in the mid-eighties, during my days of moving my call-in BBS (electronic Bulletin Board Service) from a pure analog phone system onto the GTE Net (which was our first commercial access to what was now being called the Internet) my techs and I discovered a  feature known as ghosting.  Simply defined it is when the signal to the monitor clones itself on the screen. There was a ghost in the machine. Naturally, though impossible, we figured that computers collectively were greater than the sum of their parts.  That there was a dynamic system involved.   On January 28, 1985, countless artists set out to change the world, one song broadcasted around the world at the same time. That made history. That was Michael Jackson's We Are The World. Like most folks, the event impressed me. I felt "the love" as I realized the dynamic system at play. People were reaching out in a stylish and remarkable way. People lives were saved because of that event.   In November 1989, when the Berlin Wall was torn open and millions cheered, I had an epiphany. Maybe it was because I came of age during the cold war, I cannot say. When I watched on TV the East and West Berliners rip through the wall, what I saw in my head was the breaking out of a ghost from some kind of machine. That ghost had been brewing since the cold war and the ARPnet started. It wrapped itself around so many conversations and instructions that flew through the Internet and burst out in song across radios, TV sets and conversations world wide! Above all, it lived steadily in our dreams, in our visions and in our imaginations. The thought, the message, a declaration had arrived. Nothing can be achieved in human endeavors without the fruition of thought. The U.S.S.R. crashed because President Regan, all the Free World and very many Russians dreamed it would collapse. Look back at history. The Berlin wall played the central role as nemesis. And that's where everyone's vision of triumphant arrived.    I first learned about group dreaming from an old rival of mine named John Carol. It was during the summer of 1968 in his parent's basement which John  also employed as a teen rec room. As teens would do he conjured up a notion that all mankind had been destroyed in an atomic war and we were merely dreaming that life was never interrupted and went on as ever. You know: the old data into a test tube trick, MATRIX 1 according to John. Naturally, I didn't buy it. But I never forgot that chat, and he had some killer weed to boot...!   I never even considered group dreams until I discovered the pleasure of getting away from the office and all those computers in order to watch Monday Night Football with all my drinking buddies. Life was pretty intense for me during the 1990's. Many wild love affairs, building and running a fast paced flower shop, operating a design studio with a stone cutting service, and achieving a dial-up and Internet access company with points of presence across the globe. Not to mention I created and developed a CAD program and magical machines to etch figures into granite. I deserved my nights out, and relished everyone of them. Maybe a bit too much. It was during these nights around the bar that a drinking buddy named Brian Mahoney explained group dreams to me. He used my own life experience and the football teams on the bar's TV sets to explain how group dreams manifest themselves. His first basic reference was 'vision.' A vision is a dream. A football team's owner as well as a business manager has a vision, usually tagged as a goal. Goals always morph. To reach a goal every member of the team or company must move in a degree of lock-step. Each member must hold their own vision as to their individual placement and forward movement. Because goals change, visions must change also. That's when dreaming as a mental process becomes dynamic. In essence all organized human achievement beyond a single personal endeavor is due to the dynamic of a group dream. The more cooperative individual dreams, the more successful the achievement.    One night Brian said these words to me, "This new fangled thing called the Internet, tho it be nothing more than data transmission across wires, actually forms a vision within our collective imagination of a cyber space, an actual dimension within our own 4 dimensions." He allowed me to digest that concept as he ordered another beer. Then he added, "Cyber space is equivalent to our new radio, TV, air and water transportation systems. And I believe that the Internet is not the structure of cyber space but the access to an ever present, unseen system of transportation."    Review that last thought, because it's a doosy. At first, Brian's notion sounds very much like John Carol's fantasy. But on close examination there is validity in it. But not exactly where you'd think to find it. The discovery is that cyber space - present and real or not - is a dimension, an agent for communication and transmission just as air, water, space and minds are. Before we discovered germs can use the air to transmit diseases, there was no human concept of air as a transport system. Just as flotsam and boats to water, just as radio and TV waves to air, just as analog phone calls to wires. All  the devices to span cyber space were inventions - visions. But the dynamic system became discovered. It always was there. It now seems so obvious like air and water! The means to transverse them, the boats, planes, radios, Net devices were invented. Arguably formed and engineered to the dynamic that is omnipresent. If civilization vanishes, it will remain. Just because we lost or forgot the system required to build pyramids does not mean the system is not right under our noses. Just because modern man has formulated that thunder is air clapping together does not mean that natural forces are not present in a dynamic weather system. Just because your politically correct priests guide the community around the spirits of evil does not mean that the crazy, feathered clad shaman striking terror in the hearts of his jungle tribe is not using the same dynamic of a universal system of divinity. All these take vision and imagination to discover and employ.   Vision. Imagination. The very stuff dreams are made of. Night time and day dreams both.     By the time I reached a half century in age, I had witnessed group dreaming in all the obvious application in sports, business, community projects, prayer groups. It makes a team go for the goal. Drives the vigor of business to endlessly compete. It unfolds the best in each other in efforts to better the community. When we pray together, miracles happen. A dream, perhaps a day dream, made the first sailor sit in a tree bark on a pond. The Wright brothers saw Leonardo Da Vinci's flying machine and dreamed up a way to create their own. Tesler, Maconi, Bell and Edison spent more time dreaming than paying much attention to everyone around who scolded for napping too often. And it was President Kennedy's dream to build an information system that could not be destroyed when John Carol's bombs ended the world: The Internet.    Now, I think there is another system out there. One very much like water and air and land and people and things.  We tap into it everyday. Mom and dad share their dreams. I've listened in on a couple of them when they dozed off at family picnics. We are so use to partaking in group dreams that it is so natural it is over looked.    There is a system right here among us. Perhaps even expanding beyond human imagination and reaching into the animal kingdom. We roam it together and alone.    The dreamscape (dream world) wherein dreams are communicated is presently believed to be individually formed and exclusive. A feature much like we believe consciousness to be. We must share our thoughts in order for them to be reformed within another person's head. We can work or play together and express the visions from our dreamscape thus creating a community dynamic. What if the dreamscape is a universal system? One that we tap into all the time and might be able to share, manipulate, improve, employ?   Look at it this way: If you ask the common Joe what the Internet is, he'll probably respond, "A bunch of websites." When actually email, FTP and ATM transactions far exceed the bandwidth. Websites cruise across the Net like boats do on the ocean; like planes through the air. Might dreams be just a fraction of the dynamic found in a dreamscape?    There's only one way to find out.  A world wide group dream.  Not a song or a plead for peace and harmony, a real effort to dream with the intent to discover or uncover if the dreamscape is not an offspring of our consciousness but rather a system, perhaps a universal system where thoughts, feelings, inner expressions are dynamically transmitted upon or through.  I suspect that if a mass effort is made over a due course of time we will sense or discover this dreamscape.   If we do discover that it is a personal manifestation that alone will keep psychiatrist busy for awhile. However, if we sense or discover a system wherein roam dreams the dynamics are unimaginable - only because we haven't pulled from it a vision of what a dreamscape can do for us yet.   During my pioneer days with networking I surmised from how information technology grew exponentially that "One day we will all dream the same dream." If the World Group Dream project yields results, I will change that old yawn to, "The day has arrived when all dreams are shared."