Thursday, October 26, 2017
Has this ever been tried?
Convective thought after waking from a particularly weird dream. Reminded yet again of the dream universe that includes a whole set of persistent places and people I've never known in waketime.
Dreams are, of course, the equivalent of hacked leaks. What you "know" in waketime, and what you can "reveal" in a conversation, are the equivalent of FOIA releases. Forced by culture and regulations, carefully rewritten and crafted to reveal nothing of the inner world.
Dream interpreters, whether astrological or Freudian, understand this basic distinction. I wonder if any interpreters have tried doing traffic analysis? Don't try to match up the apparent content of the dream document with predetermined Zodiac or Greek-myth templates. Simply assume the content is written in a code you can't read. Instead, do the old Midway Island trick. Feed an unfamiliar fact or image into the dream mechanism and see how the content changes.
Different metaphor: Use the black box method of circuit analysis. Wiggle and watch.
This can't be done internally; it would have to be done by an external interpreter who manages to hide the trick from the patient without losing his trust.
Later, after rereading: I'm not sure what good this trick would do. Couldn't learn anything meaningful that would help the dreamer. It would still be an interesting experiment to see how the mechanism works.
Labels: Aberree, Alternate universe
¶ 11:47 PM
