Tweekin' out on Geek Love

According to psychologist, dreaming is attributed to the mind's recollection of the day's events or past memories. Dreaming is just the manner in which the mind recalls and sorts through experiences. I am curious as to what happens when the mind deliberately inserts fiction into the reality of memory recall and results in new memory formation based on events that have never happened in reality. Adding to a-posteriori knowledge, do these fiction-turned-experiential memories affect who we are?

I dreamed I was in Geek Love. This has happened before, where I've dreamt myself into a movie, or novel, or daydream, or fantasy... But always as myself; either a better version, or a past version. In this dream, I was unrecognizable. I was very small, with very long fingers and toes, and if I held my breath long enough I could see other people's thoughts. Now, I am not particularly tall, and I do have rather spindly fingers and toes. But what I find extremely intriguing is that I find myself trying to read other people's minds. Suddenly, new thought patterns are forming, experimentation is imminent, and the perception of myself has altered just enough based on a memory rooted in a non-reality. Fascinating.

Beyond this rhetoric of self-development, Geek Love has been one of the best books I have read in a long time. Dysfunctional enough to be relatable, elusive enough to turn the page, gruesome enough to be seductive and to top it all off, well-written. I couldn't have asked for a better warm up to this course. And with a subconscious reaction as mentioned above, I am finding it difficult to pin down my conscious reactions without a longing to be behind a display case.

More to follow. After a good night's sleep.