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Dream

Oneirozyma nocturna·the Night Ferment

From Greek oneiros, dream, and zyme, leaven, and Latin nocturnus, of the night, for a leaven that works the day through by night.

Level: Conceptorganism
Phylum: Containerimage schema
Class: Mechanismits condensation
Niche: Producerraw experience
Mode: Fictionhow it keeps existing
Stage: Matureindividuated
Status: Living
Habitat: Body

Its kinds · Roget, 1852: Formation of Ideas · Wilkins, 1668: Natural Power · WordNet, 1990: Cognition · Llull, 1308: F · Imaginative

Night Ferment, the whole specimen — Plate XIII. Oneirozyma nocturna, the whole specimen.

Each night the sleeping mind turns the day's residue into scenes it lives as real, digesting experience by imagining it, and most of what it makes is gone by morning.

At night the mind digests its day by turning it into scenes.

behavior Wakes when its host sleeps, feeds busily through the night, and fades the moment light reaches it.

provocation

What part of yesterday did your last dream take apart?

Each draw is the being derived afresh by the current laws at another seed (laws §11); the chosen one leads (where they sit in the morphospace).

I Dissection

Each organ answers one question about the idea. The framed one, its mechanism, is the dominant organ: the being's class, the one the idea could not lose and stay itself.

Kernel of Dream — Fig. 1. Kernel
Rapid eye movement
Which premise, if it were false, would kill this idea?
The sleeping brain keeps imagining. In periods of rapid eye movement it builds whole scenes that the sleeper lives through as real.³
drawn as: rapid eye movement · view: microscope

Boundary of Dream — Fig. 2. Boundary
Ivory gate
What sets it apart from what it is not, and how does it keep that distinction?
It is set apart from waking thought by loosened logic, time and place. The sleeper accepts impossible events without surprise, and waking brings the rules back.⁴
drawn as: ivory gate · view: transparent

Intake of Dream — Fig. 3. Intake
Day residue
What must it feed on to work? What has to be present, noticed or supplied?
It feeds on the residue of the day, fresh impressions, unfinished concerns and things barely noticed, which sleep replays and sorts alongside older memories.^{2, 5}
drawn as: day residue · view: in situ

Mechanism of Dream — Fig. 4. Mechanism
Condensation
❦ dominant organ
How does it turn what it takes in into what it gives out?
Its work links images by likeness and nearness, fuses several into one figure, and weaves the sleeping brain's own bursts of activity into a story.^{2, 4}
drawn as: condensation · view: magnified

Output of Dream — Fig. 5. Output
Manifest content
What does it make possible, visible or knowable?
It produces vivid scenes, mostly seen and strongly felt, that the sleeper lives inside. Freud read them as wishes in disguise.²
drawn as: manifest content · view: series

Dispersal of Dream — Fig. 6. Dispersal
Oneiromancy
What part of it travels into other minds, ideas and fields, and by what vector?
It travels by being told, at breakfast, in dream journals and in dream books that read each image as a sign, and its shapes pass into myths and stories.¹
drawn as: oneiromancy · view: detached

Decay of Dream — Fig. 7. Decay
Secondary revision
What can it not digest, where does it fail, and what does it leave behind for others?
Most of it is gone within minutes of waking, and the telling reshapes what is kept, so the dream known by day is a rebuilt copy of the one lived at night.²
drawn as: secondary revision · view: transparent

II Meaning associations

No relations recorded yet.

descent membership food web resemblance or friction

Lineage

A founder, dissected by hand.

Kin

same kind in Roget Apophenia, Faith, Memory, Oblivion, Placebo, Presence, Prophecy, Knowing Trust, Afterlistening, Commemorative Revision, Simultaneous Remembering, Hesychology, Subtractive Phenomenology

same kind in Wilkins Apophenia, Memory, Oblivion, Presence, Trance, Afterlistening, Simultaneous Remembering

same kind in WordNet Apophenia, Faith, Memory, Oblivion, Qualia, Silence, Volition, Afterlistening, Simultaneous Remembering, Hesychology, Subtractive Phenomenology

same kind in Llull Apophenia, Mimesis, Symmetry, Afterlistening, Poetry

same phylum Amber, Clay, Lake, Placebo, Possession, Solitude, Tinnitus, Winter, Knowing Trust, The Shared Cell

same dominant organ Chimera, Fire, Love, Lullaby, Metamorphosis, Music, Presence, Resonance, Ritual, Storm, Symbol, Winter, Rushmaker, Shared Breath, Self-Ending Order, Gazeroot (second reading), Commemorative Revision, The Swing Door, Foresilence, Simultaneous Remembering, Poetry, Subtractive Phenomenology

Genome

sleep also in Lullaby
imagination
residue also in Ash, Subtractive Phenomenology
association
forgetting also in Memory

III In the world

Echoes

Freud's dream of Irma's injection
a dream told at breakfast
the darting eyes of a sleeper in REM sleep
Artemidorus's book of dream interpretation

IV Record

How it was drawn

its draw 4, a point in the morphospace (laws §8), drawn by flux-2-klein-4b.safetensors.

axis	value
book	volvellae
symmetry	amorphous
organization	segmented
silhouette	star
scale	immense
proportion	tapering latent
growth	moulting
articulation	imbricate latent
openness	lattice latent
skeleton	test
locomotion	sessile latent
pattern	gradient latent
coloration	warning latent
substance	wire tissue
surface	spined
palette	bismuth
luminosity	none
transparency	clouded
gesture	gathers
unity	aggregate latent
modality	unmarked latent
causation	formal latent
determinacy	crisp latent
fusion	replaced
anomaly	larger inside
graft	vials
technique	hatching
viewpoint	below
value	low key latent
balance	cantilevered latent
density	sparse
rhythm	alternating latent
saturation	accent latent
appendages	valves, antennae
anchor (body)	a silk cocoon, an oval case of wound threads around an insect pupa
anchor (detail)	a slime mold spreading as a veined network across a surface

Sources

Artemidorus, Oneirocritica (2nd century CE)
Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (1900)
Eugene Aserinsky and Nathaniel Kleitman, Regularly Occurring Periods of Eye Motility, and Concomitant Phenomena, during Sleep (Science, 1953)
J. Allan Hobson and Robert W. McCarley, The Brain as a Dream State Generator (American Journal of Psychiatry, 1977)
Robert Stickgold, Sleep-Dependent Memory Consolidation (Nature, 2005)

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