Dream Journal

Hallucinations While Driving★★★
July 21?, 1997

I was driving on a cross-country road trip, late at night, and I was exhausted. I was experiencing hallucinations while driving as sleep pulled at me. Oncoming car lights became the sparks in people’s eyes. It takes one commonality to change an entire scene — that was all it took to switch contexts. It happens in meaning, in the depth field first. Colors are easily reestablished. A concrete patch in the rough shape of an animal becomes a deer in the road. Colors are easy to change. Dreams creep in from the periphery. Unseen context changes rapidly.

Reattribution: Hallucinations from dreams and psychedelics occur in exactly the same way. Meaning adjusts the depth field and colors reestablish themselves. The only difference is when we have physical sensory input coming in, the new context has something to fight against. To work, it needs to integrate that input. For example, to stay in a dream, we need to attribute physical sounds and lights to something in the dream.

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