Despite my traditionally high resilience to being affected in the real world by events in the dream world, it is still a little disheartening to see my mother die in one dream and then wait helplessly as the US military fails to stop a North Korean missile about to strike with a fifty-mile radius that includes my home … within sixteen minutes. There’s a degree of implausibility, and yet at the same time, the power of the simulation to engulf you.
Subconscious Mind says:
Not sure I’m getting this. But then again it looks like just a thought about a dream…?
January 15, 2008, 2:41 pmjhlo says:
Hahaha, yeah, this wasn’t meant to be some very deep discussion, since I typically am wary of overthinking or overanalyzing dreams – the longer discussions in this blog tend to be about awake-thoughts. Dreams are awesome and represent some of the greatest power of the human mind to process and recombine ideas and memories. But because dreams are often a “testing bench,” in which my mind seems to experiment for the purpose of figuring out which combinations of raw material and existing ideas might be fruitful as knowledge, I consider these sorts of intermediate (and oftentimes awry) results to be largely unimportant.
I was just musing that for that short period after one wakes up after an emotionally intense dream, such as encountering death (I died in a dream once), there is still that residue, and an inability to exit this other world, which is purely simulated yet provokes the full body’s response.
January 18, 2008, 11:22 am