Dream Journal

Dedication to Expectation★★★
March 7, 1999

In a nifty dreaming mind occurrence, I awoke slightly in the middle of the night and turned toward Rebecca, expecting to see her face. I did and found it had these tribal patterns on it. It was so strange that it startled me slightly. A few moments later I realized I was staring not at her face but at the patterned blanket over her head. My expectation of seeing her face and the visual input of the pattern on the blanket had merged into one. The tribal feel came from where it was difficult to translate a correct feature out of that segment of the pattern. This shows the dreaming mind’s dedication to experiencing what it expects to experience.

My beautiful wife (the pattern of our blanket)

Visual Hallucinations: This also sheds light on the way visual hallucinations work. Given any scene, the mind can so expect to see something that it can construct that expectation out of the scene. It may have to see it as being at a certain angle, in a certain style, or so on, but the mind’s great creativity will make it so.

Our perceived reality is, at any given moment, the meeting point between our projections and perceptions.

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