Wednesday, December 11, 2019
How many awarenesses?
Just noting a bit of evidence for separate mental spaces in dreams. I spent some time on this subject a few months ago, and didn't return to it.
In today's noon nap, I was getting ready for a meeting, as often happens in dreams. I was expecting to do the meeting, then come out and go home. Instead, the timer snapped forward and skipped the meeting and going-home parts.
Snaps and skips are not unusual; time is distinctly non-linear in dreams. Normally the action simply proceeds after the snap, without any recognition of the snap itself. In this case a separate layer of awareness realized the snap had happened, and I went around asking various people where the segment of time had gone. 
Labels: defensible spaces
¶ 2:20 PM
