Today's youth

Philosophy speaks out

"Today's young people love luxury. They have bad manners, scorn authority, have no respect for their elders and gossip when they should be working. Young people don't stand up any more when older people enter the room. They contradict their parents, swagger around in society, gobble up all the sweets on the table, cross their legs and tyrannize their teachers."
Sokrates, (470-399 BC)

The speed of darkness

De nihilo nigra

Darkness appears out of nothing and dissappears into something.
It expands with the speed of 299.792.458 meter each second (1 billion km/hour).
Darkness grows with the square of distance....

Mary Shelleys dream

The Birth of Frankenstein

I saw - with shut eyes, but acute mental vision - I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy, half vital motion....

Descartes 3 dreams

Nov 1619 Descartes has 3 dreams or visions that apparently changes his life

A whirlwind revolves him violently upon his left heel; later a strong wind forces him to bend over to the left. He is terrified by phantoms and experiences a constant feeling of falling. He imagines he will be presented with a melon that comes from a far-off land. The wind abates and he wakes up...

Whitmans trees

Wandering vegetables

Walt Whitman: I had a sort of dream-trance the other day, in which I saw my favourite trees step out and promenade up, down and around, very curiously - with a whisper from one, leaning down as he pass'd me, "We do all this on the present occasion, exceptionally, just for you."

Boat of everything

Mircea Eliades dream

It was during the winter of 1930-31. In the dream I saw myself go down the Ganges, where a boat I knew very well was waiting for me to take me to the other side. But once in the boat, I no longer recognized it… Tied up along its side was another boat, which I hadn't noticed at first, and of which I could make out neither the shape nor the dimensions. Almost without realizing it, I went from my boat to this other mysterious boat. And suddenly, I understood; everything became extraordinarily clear and simple....

The parallel world

A traffic accident on the hyperway

Time is change. But all things do not change equally fast. An example: fashion is a perennial production, architecture last centuries. Everything evolves at its own internal speed. Thus time moves on in a myriad of separate but interwoven roads...

Sleeping one night in the 90'es, I had a parallel dream. It begins in a future, where teleportation is normal and widely used. I'm about to travel to another place, but this should only take a few seconds since I'm going to 'port' myself. I step into the transmitter-box, my body dissolves. In the shape of pure code my body (and mind) is sent to the corresponding receiver-box.
Then an accident happens on the hyperway.

Our normal waking consciousness

Rational as we call it...

Our normal waking consciousness, rational as we call it, is but one special type, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms entirely different. We may go through life without suspecting their existence; but apply the requisite stimulus, and at a touch they are there in all their completeness, definite types of mentality which probably somewhere have their field of application and adaptation. No account of the universe in its totality can be final which leaves these other forms of consciousness quite disregarded. How to regard them is the question - for they are so discontinuous with ordinary consciousness. At any rate, they forbid a premature closing of our accounts with reality. - William James

Different voices
different views

Quotes and comments

All my works, all my creative activity, has come from those initial fantasies and dreams which began in 1912, almost fifty years ago. Everything that I accomplished in later life was already contained in them, although at first only in the form of emotions and images.
Carl Gustav Jung

You know not what a book you seem, half read by lightning in a dream!
Dante Gabriel Rosetti, 1847

If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.
René Magritte, belgian surrealist

Men tell me that sleep has many dreams;
but all my life I have dreamt one dream alone...
Dante Gabriel Rosetti, 1847

Dreams are brief madness and madness a long dream.
Schopenhauer

All men/women dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night, in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that all was vanity; the dreamers of the day are dangerous men/women, for they may act upon their whims and desires, dreaming with open eyes whilst making their notions possible.
T. E. Lawrence