an interesting thing to meditate on: if you were trying to send messages to your current self from your future self, what non-linguistic method would you use?
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interesting - i wonder if leitmotifs would be the only possible way to communicate with ourselves through the associative logic of dream consciousness. like, more direct communication wouldnt be possible because of the occlusive nature of consciousness communicating w. itself
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I don't know, my dreams-that-are-more-towards-prophetic are super literal compared with the usual nonsense that goes on in there at night.
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Like "say this to that person tomorrow and this thing will happen" and then it goes exactly like that levels of specific.
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that's interesting! mine are never that direct, always require some sidelong interpretation. learning to speak that language has been helpful tho. seems I like slant rhymes.
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Weird things about dreams and hypnagogia I can't explain:
- I pseudohear a murmur voices if I meditate a certain way before sleep. Sometimes they confide secrets.
- I have eerily prophetic dreams where people I know tell me things, share (stark) opinions and show visions.
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i have similar experiences and have been re-reading eric wargo's time loops which does some work to explain how our own consciousness might be communicating with us across time using dream and premonition as the medium
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I don't know how many layers of post-or-prompter hoc interpretations I'm putting on those things, but the dreams always unnerved me.
To the best of my knowledge, they have also never been wrong about anything testable. So that's creepy, whatever the reason.
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Update: a friend has a sibling with the exact same type of dreams, that is to say matter-of-fact, easily verified realizations about everyday things.
This sibling, like me, has lots of Sami ancestor.
Bit perplexing.
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I've gotten that hypnagogic voice only once, it was wild. Unfortunately in my case it was speaking to me at the time in Hebrew which I was just a first year student of. But it was a striking and unmistakable experience of hearing an intelligible voice speaking in my head
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