It doesn't mean anything, it's only what Claud rifat called MHV jumps (or HPT :Homologuous Pattern Transformations) . That's the way our brain works while producing the dream.
this is the reason why if you read something in a dream, turn the head away and look at it again it changes (most of the time).
If you count your fingers, move your hand, and look again you will probably have a different number of fingers.
things just slides to something else that is close in the memory pattern. A cat can become a tiger, a yellow umbrella can become a yellow cane, once I had a pair of handcuffs that became a nunchaku, you see: it's close, there is a metal chain that relies two things, the jump is easy.
Some quotes from the dream and consciousness researcher Claude Rifat:
"One important thing to do in conscious dreams, for scientists, is to analyse the oneiric reality first-hand, from inside, as this is the best way to study how a biological memory works. The first thing a scientist discovers in endoreality is that the oneiric environment is metastable. Every informational object of a dream is continuously in a metastable state and can change to another metastable state though a "MHV jump". Endoreal informational objects are often relatively stable as long as the dreamer maintains his attention focussed on them. Say if I have a watch on my wrist, this watch will tend to remain the same as long as I am looking at it. If I hide my oneiric arm with the oneiric watch for, say, 30 seconds of oneiric time and then look again at my wrist I will notice that a sudden MHV jump has occurred: my first watch would have transformed into another watch, different, but still a watch because in our memory all homologous informational objects are stored in a common place.
All homologous objects colocalised in a same domain are called, collectively, a Motif Homologiquement Variant (MHV) or a homologously variable pattern. For example, in this example, all the watches I have seen in my life constitute a "single" MHV and a single watch extracted from this MHV is called a "slice" of the MHV. The memory area where an MHV is stored is called a MHV domain. Any MHV can contain a huge amount of informational objects which are extracted into consciousness with metabolic energy. To illustrate this with a simple familiar example just consider a game with soap which has been played, for generations, everywhere by children: in this game, children plunge an annular piece of plastic in liquid soap then blow inside and what happens? Lots of bubbles, with different sizes, sprout out! In the same way, when you inject energy in a MHV (you "heat" the MHV) this MHV starts to "bubble" its slices out into consciousness! A bubbling MHV is called a radiating MHV. The MHV are the shortcuts of dreams and, often, an oneiric scene will change to another oneiric scene through a MHV jump, that is a transformation obeying a law of homologous patterns. MHVs contain enormous quantities of informational objects which have a similar pattern in common. For example, a mushroom and and ashtray with a candle in its middle are very close in shape (pattern) and they are, thus, colocalised. This is why if I observe one visual thought (see drawing) consisting of an upside-down mushroom, for example, and if, all a sudden, this mushroom disappears and is replaced by an ashtray with a candle inside this is because their patterns are very similar and it needs only a small amount of metabolic energy to shift consciousness from the first informational object (the mushroom) to the second informational object (the ashtray with the candle).
"Memory is composed entirely of MHVs which are also all intertwined. This gives rise to the discontinuity of our thoughts. For instance, the vision of a mushroom is a simple visual continuous thought. As long as that mushroom remains the same my visual thought is continuous. When, suddenly, my consciousness drifts away through a MHV jump then it becomes discontinuousor through the help of cannabinoids which enhance the metabolic status of MHVs. The idea of an MHV is extraordinarily powerful, as it then permits the scientist to begin to understand how the oneiric or schizophrenic consciousnesses are structured. A schizophrenic thinks in the same way as a normal dreamer: his consciousness just follows the way memory is organised: into MHVs. The difference between a schizophrenic and a normal waking person is that the MHVs in a schizophrenic mind are more active metabolically and so MHVs start to "radiate" meaning that discontinuity of thought is enhanced. MHVs radiation is also found in those religious mystics claimimg to have reached a "complete understanding" of the "universe"..."
From Claude Rifat stuffs
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