{"id":1767,"date":"2010-05-03T21:05:09","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T21:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=1767"},"modified":"2010-05-03T21:05:09","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T21:05:09","slug":"dream-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/dream-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Dream on"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over at Normblog<\/a>, Norm is thinking about anxiety dreams, and seeks to answer the question:\u00a0 Who is the author of these dreams of ours?<\/em>\u00a0 Some think it seems not to be us, since the events in the dream come as a surprise to us and trouble us.\u00a0 He concludes that\u00a0it is the dreamer who is the author. If we think\u00a0of dreams as being like films that we view in our sleep, then I assume Norm means that the author is the film-director, or perhaps the projectionist.
\nBut there is\u00a0another explanation of\u00a0\u00a0all our dreams, not only those which cause us angst.\u00a0 That explanation is that our dreams are just random images flashed before us by some mechanical process in our brain.\u00a0 Here there is no continuous film, no coherent plot, no themes, no actors, no film-director, and the projectionist is outside having a cigarette while images are being loaded automatically by a random reel selector that management installed to save on staff.\u00a0\u00a0 We, however, are not outside.\u00a0 We are sitting down in the front-row of the stalls of the cinema, being the audience for the film. So its no wonder we are surprised\u00a0by\u00a0what we see.\u00a0\u00a0 We try our best, both then\u00a0and after waking, to make sense of the images that flash past us, looking for some narrative coherence.\u00a0 If we have anxieties, this is when they appear, in our attempts at\u00a0reconstruction of\u00a0 a plot or a theme or some identifiable characters.\u00a0\u00a0 We are indeed the authors of our dreams, but only in the way that texts are written by their readers, and not their writers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over at Normblog, Norm is thinking about anxiety dreams, and seeks to answer the question:\u00a0 Who is the author of these dreams of ours?\u00a0 Some think it seems not to be us, since the events in the dream come as a surprise to us and trouble us.\u00a0 He concludes that\u00a0it is the dreamer who is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creativity","category-human-intelligence","p1","y2010","m05","d03","h21"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}