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PHILOSOPHICAL MUSINGS
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coming soon- Dreaming Worlds Page.
Those interested in dreams seem to be inevitably concerned with content and meaning. Whilst that is understandable, an almost totally neglected concern is the implications behind our ability to dream. To create and recreate the products of all our senses without any external input is a revealing capacity. If we can create a reality without input from a reality what does it say about the nature of that which we call the real world?
THE SCREEN OF PERCEPTION.
The screen of perception is a term being used in philosophical discussions with scant consideration for clear definition or explanation as to exactly what the term references or implies.
We live in a world dominated by screens, from cinemas to mobile phones and televisions to E-readers. All of which function by receiving inputs in forms we cannot interpret and converting them into something understandable. This cannot fail to colour our judgement when the term "screen of perception" is used without clarity.
Dreams appear to be associated with an absence of convertable input, that is to say, waking perceptions require input in the way of light, pressure waves, chemicals to your nasal sensors etc, that are simply not required for dreaming. The dream has no obvious external input to generate a world.
The screen of perception is often used to refer to the experience of perception.
For those with no visual problems i.e. normal eyesight, the visual world is the first thing that comes to mind when hearing the term "screen of perception", but the visual is just a fraction of perceptual experience.
The screen is also host to sounds, odours, tastes and touch sensations. The screen of perception is the whole experiential waking world.
The orthodox opinion is that the screen of perception is a brain generated phenomenon - as are dreams. An entire universe is required to create the screen and yet dreams are generated when access to that universe is seemingly switched off... that requires some explanation.
As does the ease with which we may not notice that the dream itself is observed on a screen of perception.
Nevermind, dreams are steeped in paradox.
The Bangles - Manic Monday. Hyde Park, London - Hard Rock Calling Festival, 29th June 2008.
Do you have any concerns that others may come to know what you dream about? That others may have access to your dreams or that you wish you could share your dreams or decide who should and should not have the opportunity experience what you have?
There are clearly two issues here. One is shared access to dreams and the second is control of that access. Given that you may feel you have no control of anything regarding your dreams, you cannot instigate them, determine their content or manipulate events nor even feel you are an active participant unless on rare occasions you 'awaken' to feel the dream has taken on the experience of the 'real waking world'.
Lucid dreaming, the sense of being aware and awake whilst being certain what you are experiencing is a dreaming experience not only requires explanation but has implications that go far beyond...