Dreams, One Of The Best Ways To Make Sherlock Holmes Go Orthogonal

[Derek White]

I just finished listening to Leo’s Sherlock Holmes’ blog post. I can’t help but notice that Leo didn’t mention that dreams are a great way to go orthogonal. They’re also a great way to describe life. Life is basically a dream in which the brain is an object that can be manipulated to make the dream more or less lucid. Dreaming or daydreaming is unconscious imagination, when you become conscious of this it becomes conscious imagination or just imagination.

One of the questions asked in the video was, what would you do to make Sherlock Holmes realize he’s fictional?

My answer would be to give him dreams. Lucid dreams where he can control his dreams, and dreams where he is playing a completely different character, or dreams that feel very real. Maybe dreams within dreams or dreams where he doesn’t even have a dream. All this would make him question his own paradigm and move orthogonally.

If I am Arthur Conan Doyle, I would write the story to make him have dreams, or if I’m limited to a character in the stories, I would make him have dreams through hypnosis or some other techniques.

In the end, I think dreams are a good analogy for life and a good way to move away from the “brain” and “simulation” type problems. I also think it’s kind of weird that Leo didn’t mention it because that is the first place my mind goes to when I think about these types of problems. 

[seeking_brilliance]

@Derek White are you interested in metaphysical lucid daydreaming? 

[Derek White]

23 hours ago, seeking_brilliance said:

@Derek White are you interested in metaphysical lucid daydreaming? 

Not currently, but I had the ability to lucid dream since I was a child. I would get bored of it and actually just try to have normal dreams. 

[seeking_brilliance]

@Derek White and now? 

[Derek White]

On 2021-04-23 at 9:01 AM, seeking_brilliance said:

@Derek White and now? 

I don’t do it anymore, I am busy like most adults. I need to be stress free and calm to do it. It needs mental energy. If I am exhausted from the days work, I won’t have the energy to control my dreams. There is an active component to lucid dreaming, normal dreaming is passive and more relaxing.

[seeking_brilliance]

@Derek White dang, sorry to hear that. ☹️

[Leo Gura]

On 4/21/2021 at 9:19 PM, Derek White said:

All this would make him question his own paradigm and move orthogonally.

All people dream and very few of them end up going orthogonal to material reality.