When younger I couldn’t stop dreaming; I lost myself in stories, curiosities, ambitions. But I thought, DOING is living. To live your dreams you need to DO things rather than think and write about them.
However then (and I had little access to technology as a teen) all this gaming/virtual reality/internet/media obsession came along, so now it is possible, even admired, to live in your dreams. The mental life is becoming some people’s whole reality. And I’m now slightly jealous that I haven’t gone down that path. Constant mental stimulation is appealing, rather than hiking to places, and laboriously making things by hand.
“I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
By imaging oxygen uptake patterns in the brain when thinking particular thoughts, researchers can associate particular brain areas with particular ideas. Thus looking at these patterns when asleep means we can in a crude way read someone’s dreams. As the mind is acknowledged to be a product of matter, our access to it is becoming greater than ever.
So as well as being a major focus of life, dreams are now tangible themselves.
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