Tiki Tom
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I do marvel about dreams.
They are so detailed, and often in ways that have nothing to do with my waking life. My dreams often contain people and places that are very familiar to me in my dream, but are unknown to me when I wake. My dreams will often have a coherent “plot” that makes sense in the dream, but not so much when I wake up and try to explain it.
So… all this makes me wonder about the brains untapped creative potential. Also how much can you read into the meaning of dreams? (Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.) And again… where does consciousness come from? Where do dreams come from? Is it all really just an illusion that is a byproduct of our senses (sight, sound, etc) being fed into a physical circuit board made of meat and charged with electricity? I have a hard time imagining such a system generating a sense of self or rational speculative thinking, or agreement with another human being on what is the color red.
Roll dreaming into it and it’s even less explainable.
(shrugs) It is endlessly interesting.
They are so detailed, and often in ways that have nothing to do with my waking life. My dreams often contain people and places that are very familiar to me in my dream, but are unknown to me when I wake. My dreams will often have a coherent “plot” that makes sense in the dream, but not so much when I wake up and try to explain it.
So… all this makes me wonder about the brains untapped creative potential. Also how much can you read into the meaning of dreams? (Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.) And again… where does consciousness come from? Where do dreams come from? Is it all really just an illusion that is a byproduct of our senses (sight, sound, etc) being fed into a physical circuit board made of meat and charged with electricity? I have a hard time imagining such a system generating a sense of self or rational speculative thinking, or agreement with another human being on what is the color red.
Roll dreaming into it and it’s even less explainable.
(shrugs) It is endlessly interesting.