Welcome to Musing Interruptus. Thank you for clicking, thank you for listening. I had a dream or was it a movie? One of my bad habits is falling asleep with the tv on. This can make for dreams with excellent production value. The thing is… that information leaks into your unconscious. The sounds, perhaps the feelings the sounds elicit, can change what we were meant to dream. Dreams are a way of dealing with our inner struggles, traumas, and the events of the day. What happens if the process is altered. The question I struggle with now: Whose dream was that?
Mine, of course, I had it, whatever elements affected my dream, created and crafted my dream. It is mine. But, could it be construed as a matter of teamwork? Let’s be serious about this for a moment, ideas don’t happen in isolation. Unless you live in a room, closed off to the world. Furthermore, some people attribute magical meanings to dreams. As if they were prophetic. I’d rather consider them meeting places. But, what if they are prophetic? How many of you remember your dreams in the morning? How many details can you remember? When you retell your dream, do you realize you are missing elements? It would be nice to have a recording service, so we could audit our dreams. They might reveal more than we know. In psychoanalysis, dreams reveal truths about ourselves, our thoughts, desires, fears, pains, and traumas. But what if we could remember more? What if our dreams actually hold more information? How could we know, if we can only remember portions of our dreams? Prophets.
This brings me to my next question… What would we do with that information? What would the point be? If you could know what was coming up, would you change anything? Do we even want to know? Could we band together as one? Imagine… all the individuals. Living for … there is a song there.
If dreams could tell the future, would they be the key to an improved future? Would our dreams sync up? Could foreseeing the future result in greater empathy? Would a collective dream lead us to finally caring about the environment, lifting our fellow brothers and sisters out of poverty? Anticipating the commission of crimes, like oracles or precogs, like in Minority Report. People would be massively interrupted in their attempt to commit a crime. Massively is a lot. Even if it is just one person interrupting a crime… that could make a difference. Someone would do it. Right?
Our collective dreams could change the world as we know it. But… what about insomniacs. They would be left out. What about the people who say they never dream? How about people who have memory disorders? We would have some type of segregation, dreamers against non-dreamers. A privileged group. An unlikely bunch who have access to strategic information. I guess the dreamers would have to know how to identify the information that is strategic and know what to do with it. Read on https://bit.ly/37CopIZ 

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