The yard is covered with white but it is ice not snow – it will melt later today and thunderstorms tomorrow. So far this winter no use for a snow shovel or snow blower.
You were up earlier than usual and finished your exercises in short order.
Looking over those photos last night brought back memories of the trip with Craig and Alta back in 2007. We had a great time. For Carol and myself it was the second visit to Leeds Castle and on to Canterbury and the coast. I don’t think the photo in yesterday’s posting was an actual spring but I’m making it one and taking the iron fence out of course. Leeds is a very idealistic setting worthy of Avalon. At one end of the island though there have to be hills as one would find in Wales, Scotland and Ireland. The Dead need to feel at home in similar geography, or it seems to me they do.
As HeavenOrHellBothOrNeither is conjured up by the collective mind of the community allowances are made. We can throw some hill country in easily enough but the focal point will be the areas you have photos of – all taken in England. Remember, even The Rebellion is Merlyn’s version not a factual-like history even though you would like that better for authenticity. Dreams have an authenticity all there own and these books are no exception. What makes a dream authentic, orndorff, you tell me. – Amorella
I checked online. I don’t know if I have ever thought about dream characteristics as such before. Here is a summary of relevant tidbits I found.
Instead of a summary why don’t I edit the material for what is useful within context of the Merlyn series. – Amorella
That is fine with me.
First, I edited the work below from the world of lucid dreaming dot com. Emotion, logic, and remembering the dream are controlled by the grammar in writing them down. The Merlyn dreams are open-minded because I am doing the opening. Thus the characteristics also include an altered state of consciousness similar to that found in traditional hypnosis.
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Characteristics of a Dream:
The characteristics of dreams have long fascinated scientists and philosophers. However it was only relatively recently that dreams came under rigorous scientific analysis. One of the most famous dream researchers is the American psychiatrist, J Allan Hobson, who identified five basic characteristics of dreams in 1988:
• Dreams often feature intense emotions.
Despite the fact that your waking life may be pretty cushy, it's quite normal to have highly evocative dreams featuring extreme emotions. Whether you dream of intense fear (being chased by a crazed axe murderer) or public humiliation (finding yourself naked on stage). Hobson's dream research found that the three most common dream emotions are anxiety, fear and surprise.
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• Dreams are often disorganized and illogical:
When you dream (non-lucidly) certain parts of your conscious brain are shut off, allowing fantastical thought processes to run wild. The resulting dreams are rife with illogical scenarios and disorganized content, which, upon waking reflection, can make absolutely no sense. J Allan Hobson formally identified that dreams contain "illogical content and organization, in which the unities of time, place and person do not apply, and natural laws are disobeyed".
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• Dream content is accepted without question:
Our dreaming minds fully accept the bizarre and illogical characteristics of dreams due to our powerful emotional state. According to Hobson, we create strong emotions and perceptions in the dream world that support what we're experiencing, not matter how strange. When dreaming, we do not have the capacity to reflect logically nor overcome emotions.
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• Dreams often contain bizarre sensory experiences:
In dreams, your mind has to "let go" of the experience of lying asleep in bed and submit to a full range of sensations produced internally by the dream world.
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• Dreams are often difficult to remember:
REM sleep is characterized by low levels of serotonin and high levels of acetylcholine, making dreams difficult to store in short term memory.
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Dreams - Transparent or Mysterious?
Through his extensive dream research spanning three decades, Hobson emphasizes the role of neurochemicals in the brain and random electrical impulses originating in the brainstem. He does not say that dreams are purely the random firing of neurons - but rather the brain's cobbled attempt at making sense of them.
He later acknowledged the increased activity of the limbic system (a primeval part of the brain which produces emotions) during REM sleep.
Was Sigmund Freud right to suggest that dreams symbolize our repressed fears and desires? Do our dreams contain our darkest secrets just waiting to be unlocked?
Instead, Hobson takes a Jungian approach: dreams reveal far more than they hide - and can actually be highly transparent.
From: www.world-of-lucid-dreaming.com/characteristics-of-dreams.html
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I do not see anything above that would show Merlyn’s dreams are any less authentic than anyone else’s though he is currently as Schrödinger's cat, the theoretical half a cat living, half a cat dead. Merlyn steps beyond in his dreaming, as well the character of Merlyn should.
Indeed, the books are from Merlyn’s vaulted mind (actually your own which is substantially vaulted through my sense of dimension/reality). Post. - Amorella Chores have prevailed today but you have first drafted an introduction for scene five of chapter eight:
Scene Five
Arthur rested himself on a carved sitting stone focusing on the nearby thin runnel of water flow across a stony flat piece causing four naturally spaced falling streamlets in a half surrounded wood parceled pond of what would pass as pristine water were the whole setting of Avalon constructed of true earthly qualities rather than the spiritual druidic character of those whose minds created and molded this geographic transcendence.
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It's only a start.
Post anyway. Enjoy supper and your DVRed shows. - Amorella
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