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Dreams (including visions) are always unique to the dreamer. There are universal elements but even those can have specific, unique meaning to an individual person because we all have unique experiences, genetics, diets, and so on. A dream or vision typically relates to something in (or adjacent to) your own life that you are becoming aware of.

Interpreting one's dream is an interesting activity, and, to be successful, requires opening up to one's feelings; less thinking and more BEING; less left-brain analysis and more right-brain holistic consciousness is the path to the meaning of a dream -- and of life, for that matter.

You can conceptualize this as God talking directly to you, not in the virtual world of language but in the grounded, real-world context-awareness of the right hemisphere.

. . . the right hemisphere is more in touch with reality, and the left hemisphere more concerned with the internal consistency of whatever virtual model of the world it happens to be working with at the time. -- The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World, p. 104

In the absence of the left hemisphere, things come alive. Ibid, p. 160

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The left hemisphere is not impressed by empathy: its concern is with maximising gain for itself, and its driving value is utility. -- ibid, p. 145

Altruism is a necessary consequence of empathy: we feel others' feeling, engage in their being. -- ibid, p. 146

It is mutuality, not reciprocity, fellow-feeling, not calculation, which is both the motive and the reward for successful co-operation. And the outcome, in utilitarian terms, is not the important point: it is the process, the relationship, that matters. -- ibid, p.147

1 year ago
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Dreams (including visions) are always unique to the dreamer. There are universal elements but even those can have specific, unique meaning to an individual person because we all have unique experiences, genetics, diets, and so on. A dream or vision typically relates to something in (or adjacent to) your own life that you are becoming aware of.

Interpreting one's dream is an interesting activity, and, to be successful, requires opening up to one's feelings; less thinking and more BEING; less left-brain analysis and more right-brain holistic consciousness is the path to the meaning of a dream -- and of life, for that matter.

You can conceptualize this as God talking directly to you, not in the virtual world of language but in the grounded, real-world context-awareness of the right hemisphere.

. . . the right hemisphere is more in touch with reality, and the left hemisphere more concerned with the internal consistency of whatever virtual model of the world it happens to be working with at the time. -- The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World, p. 104

In the absence of the left hemisphere, things come alive. Ibid, p. 160

1 year ago
1 score