Regarding the sharing of memory between conscious and subconscious minds....This morning while sleeping I was lucidly working on a poem. I got about three stanzas into it and woke up. I remembered the last two lines I was working on, which didn't amount to much, but the rest of it, including the experience I was trying to capture in the poem, was gone. It wasn't gone as if I'd lacked memory during the dream, or had forgotten it in a few seconds after waking, or as if it hadn't been there, or as if it is far enough outside of human experience that its inherently not understandable from a waking life perspective. It was more like I changed context and lost access at the moment I awoke. This is the second time this has happened to me in the past couple of weeks, and I find it frustrating because the content, which has to do with how identity manifests as thoughts and events, is something I'm interested in retaining. Historically, I don't have trouble remembering lucid dreams, and I do learn things from them. But it does seem that there is a limit on how 'new' the knowledge can be before its blocked somehow and I have to work it out while awake.
Regarding the instability of dreams....About a week ago I had a dream similar to the 'look at the time' stability experiment people were talking about a few months ago, except my dream involved letters. It was somewhat stable for a while, with the same letters hanging around for a little while, then it changed so that it was more unstable and the letters would only stay fixed for a couple of seconds. I'm pretty sure that in the first part of the dream, the letters are more stable because the 'memory' of them has been prepared somewhat ahead of time. Then when I get more into the 'making it up as I go along' part of the dream its less stable. This relates to my discussion with Sageous a couple of weeks ago on another thread, about whether dreams are prepared beforehand. The dreams that I can remember more easily seem to be ones that were prepared subconsciously beforehand with an aim towards having a metaphor that I can remember. These last couple that I've had that I can't remember seem aimed towards illustrating that the metaphor is straightforward and concrete enough that it should be thinkable while awake, except for some obstruction possibly having to do with gaining new knowledge.
Its easier by the way to gain new knowledge if the knowledge is possibly coming through external means anyway, or could have come through external means. The frequent premonitions I used to have were like that. It seems I can take shortcuts in terms of the usual flow of events, but its the knowledge or experience that's not 'almost manifest' that's tough to get at. As if I'm a baby and I need my food mostly chewed for me or something.
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