Dreams Metaphor June 30, 2005
Posted by Phineas in : Irrelevant , trackbackJulie was wondering how come dreams seem to disappear so easily when you wake up.
I decided a metaphor was in order, and this is what I came up with. It’s like a TV screen. When the TV is off, you see the reflections of the room, the windows, the lamps, the furniture. When you turn the TV on, all that suddenly disappears and you immerse into the world of the TV. Sometimes, when the scene goes dark, you start to notice the reflections of your living room again.
It’s like that. TV-land is like your waking consciousness (ironically). When it’s off, the reflections of your sub-conscious are more pronounced. When it’s on, the conscious mind totally obliterates that other image source. At certain quiet or off moments during a waking day, you might suddenly remember a dream, which is analogous to the scene on TV going dark.
In this metaphor, TV land is waking life, and dreamlife is the reflected “reality” of the room. This of course is ironic, since TV-land is all illusion, and the reflections of your living room are “reality”.
But anyway. There’s the metaphor, OK?
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