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- From: jwc2001@andy.bgsu.edu (J Cannon)
- Subject: Integration/synthesis dreams
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:34:36 GMT
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- After a hard day of cramming facts, figures, and ideas into my head, an
- afternoon nap can be the ultimate stress reliever. The strangest thing
- I've found about the dreams I have when napping in the afternoon or
- restlessly at night (i. e. falling asleep while talking on the telephone)
- is that my dreams will tend to integrate concepts learned that day and
- synthesize new ideas.
-
- For example, I become fully convinced that the secret to partial
- integration I learned in calculus is actually democratic socialism,
- following the usual I-IV-V musical chord progression. Of course, this
- makes no sense to me now, but in the dream it was perfectly clear how these
- things fit together. Completely unrelated topics merge seamlessly in the
- subconscious, which I now firmly believe is how the human mind solves
- problems that require a leap of intuition. Is there any way to make this
- process more useful? Does it go on all the time, whether we can recall it
- or not? (I'm assuming that this is a common phenomenon...)
-
- Milo
-