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Originally posted by Johnny Rotten
At any rate--as wilbjammin suggested earlier, it's impossible for a man to know he has a hallway if he's never opened the door to his room.
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No, I didn't suggest that.
I've referred to the difficulties in communicating coherently in a subject matter like this without establishing a clear sense of what is meant by these abstract concepts. I've referred to how the brain uses memory during dreaming, which is likely to have an effect of the content of dreams. This is all that I've referred to, and I have suggested nothing else.
Anyway....
The idea of the uncanny (or
unheimlich) seem to fall in this category. I'm of the opinion that humans are much more connected than they believe to be, and, at times, I surprise nearly everyone I know well with what I intuitively know.
Maybe I have a hint of mystic realism in me, because I'm often not surprised by these stories and at the same time I am not swayed to feel that they are exceptional and/or very spiritual in nature (not that there is anything wrong with perceiving these "events" in this way).
It still comes down to perception.