Dreamwork

Shafts and Silos

Like many other people, I was shocked to read of the circumstances surrounding the tragic death of Alison Hume. Alison lay injured at the bottom of a 40ft mine shaft for six hours after accidentally falling into it while out walking in the darkness. For the latter four of those hours, she had the company [...]

Trick or Treat?

Absolutely brilliant Halloween cover from The New Yorker!

Swine Influencers

A recent report in the New Scientist describes how Spanish researchers claim to have found a way to accurately predict how quickly and widely new pieces of information, or memes as they are called, will spread. Apparently the ability to forecast this viral behaviour would be of great interest to ‘sociologists and marketeers, among others‘. Sociologists, marketeers [...]

Fruitless Venture

A big thank you to Orange for providing such a fantastic example of the representatives on earth approach in promoting their services to the public. Although Orange seem to be extremely keen to sign up new customers, they are even keener to hang on to these revenue generating irritations. Their method of retaining customers is to [...]

Manalogies

As humans, we tend to make sense of things by comparing them with other things that we already know. We make most of our decisions in a novel situation by matching new patterns with older patterns that we have already experienced, so we often end up making analogies to make sense. However, as we know from [...]

Representatives on Earth

In many large organisations, ranging from the Catholic Church to Virgin Media, there is a yawning schism between the documented beliefs of the organisation and the actions of those who supposedly represent those beliefs. I have recently endured a tortuous and ultimately meaningless experience with one of the aforementioned organisations. Although the stated ethos of this [...]

How To Dream Book

Dreaming On

So that’s how to dream. As a human being you knew all along, but perhaps living in the 21st century you needed a little reminder, a nudge from your own unconscious awareness. Here are some fragments from ‘How To Dream’ to weave into your own individual myths. 1. Your dreams will [...]

Living Your Dreams

We all dream. Every single one of us. Everyone dreams but our modern world often distracts us from the beauty of our dreams and drowns out their powerful songs. Dreaming may have evolved as a way for complex neural networks to process information and pattern match more effectively. It may have [...]

The Future Now

For many of us, the future seems a far away place that will somehow arrive someday. We often equate the future with individual and collective freedom, saying things to ourselves such as ‘Only five more years until retirement and then I’ll be free’, ‘When this technology is invented, then I’ll be [...]