The Art of Dreaming - Wewer Keohane

...shared here by its artist's and spirits' permissions...
with gratitude, honor and love for the all-beings
(white rabbit dancing joyfully with black raven again)

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Remember what 99.99% of all dreamtexts offer as living wisdom:
copying is frozen light - make not in thy worldself a mimic factor,
but instead be made unto fresh things...
in circles of return...

If you've ever looked at a text in a dream, and remembered it, you're probably familiar with some cognitive potentials that most of the 'normal' people around you have no inward comparator for.

You've probably learned one or several of a the experiential features of dreamtexts - and there very probably isn't a complete list of those features, either.

There are also some good reasons why that list isn't on it's way to completion - at least, not in the way we tend to frame such ideas. Each event or experiencer is too unique, essentially - regardless of how we as humans decide to categorize, value, or classify them. Only the allbeing could list them reasonably - because for one thing, you'd need to be able to see and understand every event from whatever beginning point we define (such as the beginning of our 'universe' <- click here for adventure) to whaterver ending point we'd define (such as the supposed 'death' or 'cessation into void' of our 'universe' ). I won't attempt to pick two random points in that mess, either (such as the beginning and end of a single dream), because it's scary, and quite plainly unwise for our purposes and goals. It would actually be a cognitive error to do so. What we will talk a bit about is memory, experience, perception, and dreaming.

Let's go to the memory part, first - there are some interesting realms to examine there. We think that memory is a thing, but it isn't - not in the sense we tend to think of things. When we make words for processes or organs which represent them as separated, we run some serious risks. The term memory is a place where those risks bear deadly fruit. Memory, as it turns out, is demonstrably unlike our common models of it, and even less like the simple and brutish terms we use to point toward some rather subtle inward momentums.

Recordings of human cognitive experience are comprised of highly distributed componants. One could probably ceaselessly separate, label and categorize such members, but that's not my goal. What's more in line with my intention is to explore a few primary anchors that are used during recording. The first might be called character. We can 'record' in certain characters of experience, and less well, or more poetically, in others. For example, in shock, we don't tend to record well. Similarly, in complete ecstasy, we may have trouble recording. During either frame of circumstance, we may choose, instead of a detailed report - a kind of symbolic moment, or small set of such moments, to attempt to etch into our accessible memories.

Memory, Metaphor, Recording and Time

Interestingly, most of us are familiar with experiences which are, by their nature, either very difficult to recall - or which seem, upon recollection, to have somehow modified our experience of the elapsing of time. The momentums involved are probably far less mysterious than our researchers and academics - those to whom we've sacrificed our own potential for credentialling our cognitive experience and realities - suspect. They may well center largely on the coupling between a quality of attention commonly referred to as absorption - and the basic circumstances of attempts at linearly metaphying one's experience. Absorption could be likened to one's position of perspective, in the domain of self/other. For example, someone who is bored and agitated will not flow perceptually into their moment to moment environment as will one who is poetically entranced with awe and wonder. Thus, to the unabsorbed perspective, the terrain of experience and time appears deadened - and seems easier to record. In fact, what is being recorded is merely a set of signals of highly general quality. But during a circumstance in which the self moves into the background, and the amazing and often living detail of the environment takes on a poetic or vitalizing detail - or we find ourselves nearly changing places with that which our perceptions behold - then we tend to record signals with greater range and specificity at the same time.

We do encounter the coupling we discussed earlier, however - to metaphor, and the process of creating or applying metaphors - what we may term metafication. There are clues to this process in our childhood development. We can find ample evidence in demonstration of the fact that children, apparantly unlike adults, enjoy the appreciation of various forms of media such as books and film - more with each exposure. Why would there be such a stark division between the children and the adults in this arena? What is the foundational meaning of this difference?

In pursuing the expansion of these questions, we find threads which imply they deserve long and careful exploration, but we can see at a glance a few veins of cognitive treasure that can be mined for some obvious progress. The first has to do with metaphor, and the evolution of the inward spaces it creates and occupies as a human develops - cognitively. Metaphor, it turns out, is vastly more important in our moment to moment experience - even metabolically, that anyone has ever implied. The domain of metaphor, and the activities of metaphying our experience - are as primary to human activity and survival as a functioning brain or heart - but we hear little about such things, strangely - when we hear more, we often hear less - due to the overwhelming complexity of most discussions or assertions on the topic.

What we will do is mention of few common features, as well as put forth a somewhat radical, and nearly totally (internally) proven theory.

Dreamtexts: Reported experiences:

Nonsense.

Strange Poetry.

Musical language.

Text may morph or change each time one refers to it visually, or attempts to focus upon its elements - letters, words, etc.

Text may do the above while one is reading it.

Text may optimize at the level of the letter, word, sentence, paragraph or whole toward something other than what it is in the first moment of reference, and in succesive moments.

Often dreamtext is very hard to recall with any clarity once awake.

Dreamtext often produces extreme reality shifts if recalled in waking awareness.

If you find a dreamtext that does not change and is fairly rational - you haven't found a text at all...but a door - often to a shattering moment of cognitive exploration and expansion.

The DreamBook,
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....life passes slowly when you're lost in a dream

Such 'recallable and recordable' texts have extremely unpredictable results upon waking humans who use the same language as the dreamtext.

Revelation in the Bible is a somewhat distored record of a dreamtext - and it certainly has a profound effect on anyone willing to grant it some cognitive purchase. It's quite possible that, in the original tongue and amongst people who were of its cognitive period, Revelation represented a shockingly powerful transgenic textual doorway into completely new domains of cognition for at least some of its early experiencers. This had nothing to do with religion.

Transgenic dreamtexts require no basis of reference in their recipients except languaging/parsing abilities and a sort of basic willingness to step into the relationship intentionally, and remain with the flow once inside.

Transgenic is here used to mean:

The semi-invasive modification of a cognitive being by particulate interpenetration with 'factors' that 'assemble' and modify by their assembly their domain of assembly (recursively) and - are modified by this modification. There are lingual genes which possess a high potency for certain (often sudden as well as scalar) transformative catalyzations.

 

Relation-link: David Brin - mimicSieve and the Practice Effect

 

 

I am sixCrow
We are everRaven

 

Ancient - Wewer Keohane

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