Well, that was absolutely wonderful. Thanks for sharing it. I hope you are right about dreams. I sometimes inhabit the consciousness of another person in my dreams, a person who is not myself and whom I might not even know in real life. I think this tendency comes from a lifetime of reading mostly fiction. You get used to thinking someone else's thoughts, I suppose.
Thanks so much! That you have a separate dream personality is fascinating. We are not really sure what a 'personality' really is anyway, so the fact of having another one during the half of life we spend asleep is not surprising. Does your dream persona have a past, other than dreams? How do you 'see' her in dreams, as if you were watching a CCTV? And if this person bears no particular reference to anyone in real life (or in books, films?), I wonder where she comes from... Really, really interesting. A lot to think about...
It's strange in that I identify as closely with this person as I relate in waking life to the "I" I have decided represents "me." I'm looking at things from their perspective (not to go all Ed Gein or Texas Chainsaw Massacre or anything, but I suppose it's analogous to wearing their meatsacks, only with the added bonus of inhabiting their consciousness as well--although obviously this is just a projection on my part, because I'm necessarily constrained by the limits of my own consciousness, and this is why I read so little philosophy I guess because my Covid-addled brain simply cannot handle stonerisms of that magnitude).
Or we can't handle realities of that magnitude. We are others and no one. Everyone is Ed Gein and his mother... I knew a girl once who returned to an imaginary town in her dreams every now and then. It had been going on since childhood. She knew it so well she could easily draw me a map of it. I can't remember if I asked her if it had a name.
Well, that was absolutely wonderful. Thanks for sharing it. I hope you are right about dreams. I sometimes inhabit the consciousness of another person in my dreams, a person who is not myself and whom I might not even know in real life. I think this tendency comes from a lifetime of reading mostly fiction. You get used to thinking someone else's thoughts, I suppose.
Thanks so much! That you have a separate dream personality is fascinating. We are not really sure what a 'personality' really is anyway, so the fact of having another one during the half of life we spend asleep is not surprising. Does your dream persona have a past, other than dreams? How do you 'see' her in dreams, as if you were watching a CCTV? And if this person bears no particular reference to anyone in real life (or in books, films?), I wonder where she comes from... Really, really interesting. A lot to think about...
It's strange in that I identify as closely with this person as I relate in waking life to the "I" I have decided represents "me." I'm looking at things from their perspective (not to go all Ed Gein or Texas Chainsaw Massacre or anything, but I suppose it's analogous to wearing their meatsacks, only with the added bonus of inhabiting their consciousness as well--although obviously this is just a projection on my part, because I'm necessarily constrained by the limits of my own consciousness, and this is why I read so little philosophy I guess because my Covid-addled brain simply cannot handle stonerisms of that magnitude).
Or we can't handle realities of that magnitude. We are others and no one. Everyone is Ed Gein and his mother... I knew a girl once who returned to an imaginary town in her dreams every now and then. It had been going on since childhood. She knew it so well she could easily draw me a map of it. I can't remember if I asked her if it had a name.
Lovely piece of writing. Thanks for sharing it.
Thanks so much for reading and dropping a line!