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diff --git a/essays/dream_reality.tex b/essays/dream_reality.tex index aab289d..33b901c 100644 --- a/essays/dream_reality.tex +++ b/essays/dream_reality.tex @@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ added a second-order activity. The transformation procedure to somehow combine conscious ideational direction---coding of the banal dreams---with alteration of my experience, my esthesia, my lived experience. - \section{Dreams and Reality---An Experimental Essay} Excerpts from my dream diary which are referred-to in the essay that @@ -63,7 +62,6 @@ my mattress in the front room of my apartment. The action is carried on continuously through waking up and through the associated change of setting. - \dreamdate{1/12/1974} Just before I go to sleep for the night, I am lying in bed drowsy. I think @@ -90,7 +88,6 @@ Comment: The differences between this experience and a waking visualization are that the latter is less vivid than seeing and is accompanied by waking reality cues such as cues of bodily location. - \dreamdate{1/16/1974} \begin{enumerate} @@ -113,7 +110,6 @@ the waking state. I then begin to will away the rash in the dream, and I succeed, \end{enumerate} - \dreamdate{1/20/1974} For some reason the dream associates Simone Forti with flute-like @@ -129,7 +125,6 @@ Comments: I tape my mouth at night so I will sleep with my mouth closed. I experimented at trying to whistle with the tape on while fully awake. The breath just hisses against the tape. The pitch of the hiss can be varied. - \dreamdate{2/1/1974} 1. I try to assist a man in counterfeiting ten dollar bills by taking half @@ -137,7 +132,6 @@ of a ten, scotch taping it to half of a one, and then coloring over the one until it looks like the other half of the ten. The method fails because I bring old crumpled tens rather than new tens, and the one doilar bills are new. - Comments: There are no natural anomalies in this dream at all. What is anomalous is that this counterfeiting method seems perfectly sensible, and I only begin to question it when we try to fit the crumpled half-bill to the @@ -150,7 +144,6 @@ is bland material about my early life which could apply to any child or teen-ager. Thus, I must warn readers who know me only from this diary not to try to make the image of me here fit my waking life. - \dreamdate{2/3/1974} 3. I have had several dreams that I am taking the last courses of my @@ -165,7 +158,6 @@ person. I experienced another person's existence instead of mine. Professor Nell also appeared somewhere in this dream; as he has in several school dreams I have had recently. - \dreamdatecomment{2/3/1974}{This is the date I recorded, but it seems that it would have to be later.} I get up in the morning and decide to have a self-indulgent breakfast @@ -194,21 +186,19 @@ strong belief in the reality of the social future and in my ability to form accurate expectations about it. When I awakened, the whole misadventure vanished. - End of excerpts from my dream diary. \begin{quotation} -"... It is correct to say that the objective world is a synthesis of private views -or perceptions... But ... inasmuch as it is the common objective world that -renders ... general knowledge possible, it will be this world that the scientist +"\ldots\ It is correct to say that the objective world is a synthesis of private views +or perceptions\ldots\ But \ldots\ inasmuch as it is the common objective world that +renders \ldots\ general knowledge possible, it will be this world that the scientist will identify with the world of reality. Henceforth the private views, though -just as real, will be treated as its perspectives. ... the common objective +just as real, will be treated as its perspectives \ldots\ the common objective world, whether such a thing exists or is a mere convenient fiction, is -indispensable to science ... -."\footnote{A. d'Abro, The Evolution of Scientific Thought (New York, Dover, 1950), pp. 176--7} +indispensable to science \ldots" +\footnote{A. d'Abro, The Evolution of Scientific Thought (New York, Dover, 1950), pp. 176--7 } \end{quotation} - \textbf{A.} We wish to postulate that dreams are exactly what they seem to be while we are dreaming, namely, literal reality. Naively, we want to get closer to literal empiricism than natural science is. But science has worked out a @@ -649,7 +639,6 @@ dreams, in language which blocks any implications about reality, are what we should strive for. And if ve cease to be stable object gestalts for others, maybe our stable object gestalts will not even appear in their dreams. - \section*{Note on how to remember dreams} The trick in remembering a dream is to fix in your mind one incident or @@ -657,5 +646,3 @@ theme in the dream immediately upon awaking from it. You will then be able to remember the whole dream well enough to write a description of it the next day, and you will probably find that for weeks afterwards you can add to the description and correct it. - - |