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October 17, 2007
by Frank Martin DiMeglio
Dreams involve a sense of relative familiarity with the experience therein. Furthermore, dreams involve a fundamental integration and spreading of being and experience, thereby increasing the capacity for memory and understanding; for there is an increase in the extensiveness of experience during dreams, and also a relative reduction in [the totality of] experience while dreaming. Therefore, dreams simultaneously improve upon the ability to both learn and remember in conjunction with new experiences/thoughts. (This effect is clearly evident in the works of genius, and also with the past/present/future extensiveness and superior predictability regarding the thoughts of genius.) It is for these reasons that the dream neither involves what has happened (the past) nor what will happen (the future); but, dreams have essential, substantial, and significant bearing regarding what can happen (in relation to past, present, and future experience). The fundamental integration and spreading of being and experience during dreams is essential to the continuity and extensiveness of being and experience (and thought) in time. Memory integrates experience. Memory, genius, and dreams improve upon the integrated extensiveness of experience (and thought). Attention is improved in conjunction with the integrated extensiveness of experience and thought. Given the successful and increased (yet limited) involvement of the unconscious, the highest (or ideal) form of genius involves a superior integration of a greater totality of experience, thereby achieving a fundamental integration, growth, and spreading of being and experience (and of desire, thought, and emotion). Attention and memory are both improved and relatively sustained in conjunction therewith. Emotion that is comprehensive and balanced advances consciousness. Elevated and sustained desire and energy are connected with both courage and genius, and with the advancement of consciousness and life as well; for dreams involve a fundamental integration and spreading of being and experience; and it is important that there is neither fatigue nor tiredness in the dream. Dreams are not only associated with the past, but also with a compression, extension, disintegration, and reconfiguration of sensory experience that allows for manufactured metals, art, television, etc. Art is inseparable from the expansion of habitat, consciousness, desire, and experience. Accordingly, when examining dreams, ordinary consciousness, and the experience of genius, it is clear that man has increasingly extensive experience and variety (or range) of habitat because he is capable of greater understanding. Works of genius are powerful and compelling. The instincts allow for the increase, advancement, extension, and differentiation of desire. Consciousness advances desire and consists of advanced instinct. The instincts involve the projection, integration, connection, and extension of feeling, energy, desire, emotion, and thought. That thoughts and emotions are differentiated feelings is apparent during dreams, and also because dream experience occurs at the mid-range of feeling between thought and sense. The proportionate reduction of both thought and feeling during dreams is also indicative of the fact that thoughts and emotions are differentiated feelings. The disintegration, alteration, reduction, and replacement of sensory experience and feeling threaten to disconnect and detach the self from what is natural and truly sustaining. Moreover, there is no true difference between what is foreign/unnatural and toxic. Toxins and artificially reconfigured sensory experience (including pollution, processed foods, television, etc.) make the self increasingly unconscious (and reactive) in unpredictable ways. The contraction and disintegration of being and experience go hand in hand. Accordingly, the unnatural disintegration (and contraction) of visual sensory experience during the experience of television will involve emotional disintegration (i.e., anxiety). Emotions and thoughts are differentiated feelings. Modern experience (including sensory experience, work, and lifestyle) is increasingly involving a pervasive and fundamental disintegration and contraction of being and experience. Dreams involve a fundamental integration and spreading of being and experience at the mid-range of feeling between thought and sense, in conjunction with the natural extensiveness and interactivity of being and experience. Moreover, there is neither fatigue nor tiredness in the dream. Accordingly, the increased (and sustained) energy of genius [ideally] allows for increased and successful access to relatively unconscious (or dream) experience, thereby improving desire, understanding, memory, attention, and the natural extensiveness of experience. On the other hand, the disintegration and contraction of being and experience that occurs in anxiety involves (and includes) a reduction in desire and energy (as fatigue). Depression involves a further loss of desire and energy (as tiredness), in conjunction with a contraction and [relative] detachment of being and experience. The loss of concern in depression further reduces desire (and energy) and the extensiveness of intentionality in regard to experience. Depression, therefore, involves a very significant (and even fatal) loss of desire (i.e., of both intention and concern), including an overall reduction in the totality of experience. Restlessness in depression and anxiety is related to the reduction of both energy and desire; for when intention and concern are consistent and comprehensive (and balanced), desire and energy are truly elevated and sustained; and consciousness is advanced in conjunction with emotion that is comprehensive and balanced. (Desire consists of both intention and concern. Intention and concern not only define or include desire, but they include interest as well.) Ideally, concern is balanced and improved in conjunction with an increase in the comprehensiveness and consistency of intentionality in regard to experience. (This is evident in the increased desirability of experience and wonder that are present in genius.) In this way, energy, desire, and feeling are advanced (or increased) and balanced in conjunction with an increase in consciousness and in the extensiveness, consistency, and desirability of experience. Serenity and restlessness are usefully contrasted. Depression is significantly disassociated (or removed) from the variability, extensiveness, and benefits of both waking experience and relatively unconscious (or dream) experience as well. Therefore, the state of severe depression may be usefully opposed (or contrasted) with the experience of the highest (or ideal) form of genius. The loss (or reduction) of desire and energy in depression involves a reduction of both intention and concern that is consistent with a significant reduction in (and detachment from) reality/experience in general. It is important to note that there is [generally] neither depression nor boredom during dream experience. Moreover, the elevated and sustained desire that is associated with both courage and genius is connected with the advancement of consciousness and life. The ultimate and legitimate goal of truth, knowledge, and experience in general is the fundamental advancement and improvement of consciousness in conjunction with the healthy, natural, and instinctive extensiveness of experience. Frank Martin DiMeglio lives in Maryland and is currently writing a book about philosophy. He has a Bachelor of Science degree (Honors, 1987) from Towson University in Geography and Environmental Planning.
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