I'm not sure if this is the proper place to put an idea of this kind in the forum, but it's not often that dreams give me an idea that I find worth sharing with others, so here goes.
Last night, I had a dream that included this sort of candy that would multiply and grow into the likeness of all sorts of critters. At one point, they started out in a block that was kind of like hard candy, but much softer, like clay almost. I think I remember them starting to grow into creatures when the block was broken apart, though I can't remember consistently.
Anyways, they would form into some sort of creatures, from yellow little worms, to miniature dinosaurs. The oddball part of this subject of my dream last night was that they would also move and have the behavior of the critters that they formed into. For example, there were a few occasions when miniature lobsters would form, and they would try to pinch me when I tried to eat them, and there was this time when a bunch of termites managed to escape, and form a huge colony and get into a lot of wood and started eating through a lot of it.
Which brings me to another characteristic that this candy had: the ability to multiply, and fast as more time went on. I soon learned to do everything I could to keep them in their own container, otherwise they would escape and multiply quickly. Even then, they multiplied very quickly, and I think there were quite a few times when they started trying to eat through their containers. Towards the end of my dream I remember trying to eat them quickly before they could multiply out of control, gobbling down little yellow worms that were escaping their containers, trying to keep them from morphing into more hard to control critters!
My thought is that perhaps something similar, but much more toned down, could actually make a fun dessert of the future or originating from one of the Federation's members. I believe that I remember a replicator producing gagh that could move, squirm, and overall simulate living articles to a degree at one time in TNG. I figure that if it is possible to replicate live food that is capable of limited movement, maybe foodstuffs can be "engineered" to have limited movement, such as gummy worms that can squirm, perhaps by engineering neural pathways that can cause movement, even if only for a limited amount of time, and by engineering muscles that are made out a durable but edible gelatin. They could be fun to eat, once you get over the appearance that they are alive, but aren't really. I don't know, I just figured this is something that might be worth sharing with others.
Last night, I had a dream that included this sort of candy that would multiply and grow into the likeness of all sorts of critters. At one point, they started out in a block that was kind of like hard candy, but much softer, like clay almost. I think I remember them starting to grow into creatures when the block was broken apart, though I can't remember consistently.
Anyways, they would form into some sort of creatures, from yellow little worms, to miniature dinosaurs. The oddball part of this subject of my dream last night was that they would also move and have the behavior of the critters that they formed into. For example, there were a few occasions when miniature lobsters would form, and they would try to pinch me when I tried to eat them, and there was this time when a bunch of termites managed to escape, and form a huge colony and get into a lot of wood and started eating through a lot of it.
Which brings me to another characteristic that this candy had: the ability to multiply, and fast as more time went on. I soon learned to do everything I could to keep them in their own container, otherwise they would escape and multiply quickly. Even then, they multiplied very quickly, and I think there were quite a few times when they started trying to eat through their containers. Towards the end of my dream I remember trying to eat them quickly before they could multiply out of control, gobbling down little yellow worms that were escaping their containers, trying to keep them from morphing into more hard to control critters!
My thought is that perhaps something similar, but much more toned down, could actually make a fun dessert of the future or originating from one of the Federation's members. I believe that I remember a replicator producing gagh that could move, squirm, and overall simulate living articles to a degree at one time in TNG. I figure that if it is possible to replicate live food that is capable of limited movement, maybe foodstuffs can be "engineered" to have limited movement, such as gummy worms that can squirm, perhaps by engineering neural pathways that can cause movement, even if only for a limited amount of time, and by engineering muscles that are made out a durable but edible gelatin. They could be fun to eat, once you get over the appearance that they are alive, but aren't really. I don't know, I just figured this is something that might be worth sharing with others.
This is probably more suited to General Trek Discussion, so I'll move it over there. 
