dreamweaving: I learned this while awake

dream-theme this week: reverse deja-vu of a sort, where the subconscious acts by “remembering” a lesson learned while conscious and then alters its behavior.

I’ve learned so much about shame and regret after my own ego-death years ago, which was preceded by my own self-destruction of my life. This week my subconscious revisited that lesson by placing me as a direct participant in the public shaming of a stranger, which I did with gusto before a strong, sudden clarity that cut through dream-me’s thought-process. I’ve learned this before, dream-me thought. I am shaming a stranger and I know enough about shame to know this is wrong. Dream-me stopped the shaming behavior and the dream shifted to something entirely unrelated.

My current hypothesis: our minds collectively share the subconscious realm, which is a psychological repository of every single human experience presented in a non-linear manner. Or perhaps more simply, it is the human community’s collection of memory and future, while the individual conscious is the experience of linear time.

As I call to you across the digital void: I want your dreams to study this hypothesis.