If I Remained Unconscious, I Would Be Brilliant
Monday, March 17, 2008 On Saturday morning, I woke up wondering who had replaced my brain with that of a person who had not drunk herself into oblivion with Greeneggsandtam the night before, because the brain I woke up with was doing some philosophizing hitherto unseen around these parts after much beer and wanton drooling onto the pillows.
The reason for my confusion was this:
The last of my dreams was nothing but the sound of my own voice delivering a lecture that was an explanation of humankind's fondness for symmetry. My dream-self postulated that symmetrical images could be repeated endlessly without break, a visual eternity of sameness, and I extrapolated that the symmetry we often seek in human beauty is at least partially spawned by the desire to see ourselves within the context of the infinite rather than that of our finite physical lives. I concluded that our desire for symmetry, both in object and in human form, drew from the same well as our desire to seek the divine.
And then, I snapped awake with a chunk of Onion's fur in my eye and a carpet of blech that was self-replicating on my tongue.
That was more like it.
Reader Comments (6)
ooh, genius dreams are my FAVORITE! although I don't care for the feeling of stupidity when I wake up and can't remember a damned thing I "figured out" while sleeping.
I haven't had one of those in a while... maybe my brain is shutting down?
To be fair: not all of us were quite AT oblivion. A block away from oblivion MAYBE. Hahaha. We phoned the Palinode three hours before we actually came to meet you. I had some considerable catching up to do.
This is all besides the point I was going to make which is that you are always brilliant!
The brilliant part is that you have the neural pathways established to bring those insights into the conscious mind.
When I was in geek school, I dreamt in code all night long, darned if I could recall the brilliant solutions I arrived at.
Tagged you be, come and see.
The above is about as good as I get awake OR asleep. I don't have to be drunk to be drooling on my pillow, either.
If I had dreams like that, I'd only wake up confused.
Wow.
Nifty theory!
I like that term Loren coined. Genius dreams. Yeah, that whole figuring it all out thing. I thought that only happened to me because I am working on articles before sleeping and in those articles, I am pretending to figure everything out.
But that's a pretty awesome theory. I never had a genius dream that good.