DREAMING AND REALITY, meeting 1 (out of 3)

The basic premise of sorcery for a sorcerer is that the world of everyday life is not real, or out there, as we believe it is. For a sorcerer, reality, or the world we all know, is only a description.

[from the introduction to the Journey to Ixtlan by Carlos Castaneda]

mind over matter?

is reality merely a description?

slide 2

oneiric cybernetics

can we govern our dreams/reality so that they are more...

...like this	...than this?

dreaming I: supplementary material

• here's Michael Swanwick's Sci Fiction: Periodic Table (Swanwick is the author of the series of stories that accompany each of Goya's Los Caprichos, including the Sleep of Reason; see the previous slide)
• Dreaming to Learn; Learning to Dream (a somewhat useful if haphazard overview of psychology, anatomy and physiology of sleep and dreaming, by Ilanit Tof)