Illusion: August 15

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#Illusion

Game on...on the radio...Brewers at Dodgers...Brewers 4-Dodgers 1...bottom of fourth...

Maya

Relics and remnants!
Residual artifact,
A dream dreaming dream.

City Words

 🦋Dream:

A yellow rosette star in a series of things to gather...I wake up...

Two fellows in tunics...grey tunic on left, reddish tunic on right...black brown beards, long hair...just standing in front of me...I wake up...

(having noted that the feed dropped these furry cows)

https://www.facebook.com/reel/2768389120205371/?sfnsn=mo&mibextid=6AJuK9

🎶watched Blade Runner...a re-run...towards end, I remembered a dream bit from one of my dreams...out of no where...and quickly it went back to no where...forgotten...sorta...I tried to remember it, and was so close...then more dream bits swam up, almost to surface...almost dreaming awake, like once briefly before...must be the Vangalis music in that nightmare movie...revealing to a replicant their memories are implanted-they have no childhood...that movie's thing...they are in reality but haven't human realness...Do Androids Dream of Electric Sleep by Philip Dick...did I temember that right?...that just came to me, it's the book Blade Runner was based on...?...Ohtani up...bases loaded...I may have read that in my sci fi book reading era...missed Ohtani making out...Freeman up...I'd like to go back to that era...not possible!...K...to top of five...link to cows above...like the Tunics, I thought when the feed dropped it...a considertation, the feed can see me in my notes, before blog posting...see me when messaging, when telephoning...and drops feeds from bits...pretty soon, feed is mind reads!...but, that's old notion, notions, telepathy, prophecy...to bottom of fifth...even science considers these things... fringe science..coincidence, the shaggy cows similar to the Tunics...illusion, delusion...replicants under delusion of being human...humans delude themselves replicants are human...not being human doesn't mean not being sentient...science tries to measure sentience...sentient animals given laws to protect them...from being eaten...that, that's that dream of the animals and gentiles by Peter!...gentiles not to be eaten...WF, Why Files does take on our pre-historic history of living side by side with Neanderthals...they ate us...come to think of it...replicants are like Neanderthals...stronger than people...smarter too...WF notes Neanderthals had bigger brains (typed dreams for brains!)...

✨️The name of Niander Wallace, the replicant manufacturer in Blade Runner 2049 played by Jared Leto, is widely noted by fans and trivia sources as a deliberate phonetic and conceptual reference to Neanderthals.

[1, 2, 3]

🎶movies have become the "abstracts" of peer review "papers" prompting web breakdowns!...

✨️The iconic 1982 film Blade Runner is directed by Ridley Scott and based on Philip K. Dick’s 1968 science fiction novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The story follows bounty hunter Rick Deckard tracking rogue artificial humans (replicants/androids) in a dystopian future.
[1, 2]

🎶Sheep!...hmmph...I remebered "sleep"...allusion is counting sheep to fall asleep...?...N1 hypogogic hypnopompic scrying sheep movie Blade Runner

✨️N1 hypogogic hypnopompic scrying sheep movie Blade Runner

The 1982 sci-fi film Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott, is loosely based on Philip K. Dick's 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, which features a synthetic sheep owned by the protagonist Rick Deckard. Terms like hypnagogic and hypnopompic describe transitional states of sleep, while scrying relates to seeing visions, echoing the dreamlike, artificial-reality themes of the movie. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Source Material and Film Connections
The Novel: Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? centers on bounty hunter Rick Deckard, who owns an artificial electric sheep and desires a real animal in a post-apocalyptic world. [1, 2, 3, 4]
The Adaptation: Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner adapts this dystopian framework into a neo-noir visual masterpiece, focusing on synthetic humans called replicants rather than the book's explicit focus on the artificial sheep motif. [1, 2]

✨️Do Hindus make film noir movies?

Hindus do not make films as a religious group, but Hindu filmmakers and the Indian Hindi-language film industry (Bollywood) have a long history of producing film noir and neo-noir movies. This distinct style, often called "Bombay Noir," blends classic 1940s Hollywood shadow lighting and cynical themes with Indian cultural elements and music.
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

🎶aaand...

✨️Have India movie makers copied Blade Runner?

Indian filmmakers have not made full feature-film remakes or direct copies of Blade Runner, but they have faced criticism for lifting promotional material. Most notably, the first-look poster for the multilingual action thriller Saaho (2019) starring Prabhas drew heavy accusations of plagiarism for closely mirroring the aesthetic and character pose of Blade Runner 2049. [1, 2, 3, 4]
Promotional Material vs. Story Content
Poster Plagiarism: The controversy around Saaho centered on its promotional poster, where lead actor Prabhas appeared in a long overcoat walking down a misty, shadowed alleyway—a near-identical visual parallel to promotional imagery of Ryan Gosling in Blade Runner 2049. [1]
Sci-Fi Tropes: High-profile Indian dystopian or futuristic sci-fi epics—such as Kalki 2898 AD (2024)—frequently trigger fan comparisons to Western sci-fi tentpoles like Blade Runner, Dune, and Star Wars due to shared genre tropes like oppressive sky-cities and stark class divides. However, critics and creators note that these narratives typically draw their core foundations from indigenous mythological frameworks and epic Hindu philosophy rather than copying Ridley Scott's cinematic blueprint. [1, 2, 3]

🎶tentpoles?...

✨️A tentpole movie is a very expensive, high-budget film that a studio relies on to make a huge profit. Like a heavy pole holding up a large circus tent, this successful movie brings in enough money to support the studio's smaller, riskier, or lower-budget projects.

✨️movie about Fatima the Tent Maker

There is no mainstream movie titled Fatima the Tent Maker. Instead, you are likely mixing together two distinct pieces of literature and cinema: the famous Sufi teaching tale "Fatima the Spinner and the Tent" and the 1922 silent drama film "Omar the Tentmaker". [1, 2]
The Sufi Story: "Fatima the Spinner and the Tent"
You are most likely thinking of the classic parable popularized by author Idries Shah. While it has not been adapted into a major feature film, it is widely known in literature: [1, 2]
• The Plot: A young Moroccan woman named Fatima faces a series of devastating, random disasters—shipwrecks, being captured into slavery, and sudden family loss. [1, 2]The Trade: Throughout her struggles, she is forced to adapt and learn vastly different skills: spinning thread, weaving cloth, and crafting ship masts. [1, 2]The Climax: She ends up in China, where a localized legend dictates that a woman must arrive to build a magnificent royal tent for the Emperor. By combining all the random skills she acquired through her hardships, she successfully builds the tent and fulfills her destiny. [1, 2]
The Movie Confusion: "Omar the Tentmaker" (1922)
The phrase "the Tent Maker" in classic cinema belongs to the 1922 silent romance film Omar the Tentmaker, which stars Guy Bates Post. The film is a romantic drama about the life of the 11th-century Persian poet, mathematician, and astronomer Omar Khayyam. [1]

🎶in the land of Oz, different lures catch different fish...Brewers 4-Dodgers 1...

✨️AI Overview

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Choosing the right fishing lure depends heavily on the target species, water clarity, depth, and conditions. Different artificial baits—such as jigs, crankbaits, spoons, and soft plastics—mimic various types of natural prey to attract specific fish. [1, 2]

🎶hmmph...sometimes a fisherman, sometimes a fish...Hindu saying?...not to be obscure...allusion is Fatima goes thru reincarnation...AI misses this...

✨️The phrase "sometimes a fisherman, sometimes a fish" is a philosophical expression about the interconnected and shifting nature of roles in life, but it is not a traditional Hindu saying or a direct definition of reincarnation.

While Hindu philosophy includes Samsara (the cycle of rebirth) where a soul may cycle through different life forms, the specific line about the fisherman and the fish does not appear as a formal scriptural proverb in Hindu texts. Instead, it reads more like a modern proverb or metaphorical idiom reflecting karma, duality, and changing perspective

🎶Angels now on the radio...listen on rollout for snack...a thought from this, that the "punctuated evolution" in movies is the dramatic life death struggles...the other struggles...I dunno...our nerves tell us...I had a pet sheep...not mine, but I fed it, put it away at night...Gravely loved Oranges...nerves are sentient...Royals 0-Angels 1 😇

:)

DavidDavid

Phenomonae: August 14, 2026

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#Phenomonae

Game on...on the radio...Brewers at Dodgers...ten minutes to first pitch...

🦋I'm looking at a black glass rectangle...a smaller rectangle is lighted, glowing, in the middle, and is showing text...I try to read the text, but can't...then, I try to describe the glass rectangle, the lighted text...this reruns...I'm stuttering waking up...almost awake...then back to sleep...I keep trying to report, I'm trying to report IN the dream, like I'm awake...I wake up...

🎶aaand trying to report the glass with the lit text window...it was very refined, elegant...and must be a dream take on my cell phone...the glass was phenomonal...so too, cell phones, tho so accepted now, they're un remarkable...that's kind the ark of phenomonae...a sensation, then they fade...Yamamoto on mound...feed cats...cats fed...to bottom of first...thought to ask for a list of dream phenomonae...

🧐

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/dream-catcher/201910/odd-dream-phenomena

Dream science has not yet developed a complete catalog of the varieties of dream experience out there. We need to develop a near-complete catalog if we want to create a real science of dreams. Therefore I am requesting my readers to send in some of their most puzzling dream experiences. I want to hear about the stranger forms of experiences you have had with dreams as these often challenge our limited current conceptions about what dreams really are. To get you started in thinking about strange dream phenomena consider these relatively well-documented examples:

🎶hmph...from 2019...spread thru the web lots of reports...old reports reported too...but it's random...uncatagorized, or some such...historians after years of study, have the skill...while they talk, things come to mind, aand they digress...bringing something up that illustrates for  their central theme...retired military pundits do this a lot on the news...on and ons about the USS Abraham Lincoln on the news..."even the British Navy in their wooden men of war would come to port after six months"...scurvey brought everone in until like 1770 about...

✨️How long could wooden warships stay at sea?

🎶three to six months, same as today...it's a political football...like casualties, funds, munitions, Trump, Hegseth...fog of war messed up...fish or cut bait...where was I?...Brewers 0-Dodgers 1...bottom of third...Ohtani up...I need to watch movie Disney Alice in Wonderland, again...re-read the books, this time attentive to dream phenomonae...Pages with hit...

✨️This article examines the specific features of dreaming found in Lewis Carroll’sAlice in Wonderland

https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/IJoDR/article/view/62445

andThrough the Looking Glass
, using current dream research as a guide. These features include falling, magical animals, metamorphoses, wordplay, bizarreness, memory distortions, moral ambiguities, metacognition, curiosity, empathy, existential questioning, and freedom. When Carroll’s stories are viewed through the lens of the current dream research, it becomes clear that he has provided a surprisingly accurate and comprehensive accounting of human dream experience. Drawing on historical and biographical evidence, this article goes on to argue that Carroll intentionally made dreams a central part of the stories because he wanted to give his young readers a tool for resisting the oppressive normality of adulthood in Victorian England, at the peak of the British empire. By subtly teaching his young listeners about the true nature of dreaming, Carroll was cultivating their critical capacity to look beyond the status quo of supposedly “civilized” Imperial reality.

🎶I'm sleepy...try to catch a 🦛...bbk...bk...caught one...

🦋Dream:"no more for you":..that was last I said before waking up...I'm engaged in an activity...( that got away-forgot)...I did another thing, then turned my back, returning to my activity...an official, a suprintendent, leans out, I see their face, and reprimands me...I say, "No more for you!"...and turn back to what I was doing...I wake up...

🎶game still on...Ohtani makes out...Pages with homerun...bottom of fifth...Brewers 1-Dodgers 2...I've been tryimg to come up with term for the authority figures...like Alices Red Queen-Red King...feed dropped bio of Jim Thorpe-a dream career, beset with hide bound fug heads...and he faded out, still a controversy over his grave...Fug Head my term for Jung's Shadow...not good to sleep before sleep time, like 1am...to bottom of sixth...Yamamoto spot on thru six...

✨️Jim Thorpe won two gold medals at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden, sweeping the pentathlon and decathlon. Stripped of his titles in 1913 for playing minor league baseball, he was officially reinstated as the sole champion by the

International Olympic Committee in 2022...

🎶Tommy with home run...Brewers 1-Dodgers 3...Tucker up...days, and nights, so hot!...time for a rootbeer...not on my diet...sweet sodas tough to leave off!...Muncie with a double...most stories told from the Hero's view, his dust ups with Fug Heads!...top of seventh...hippos, 🦛🦛🦛, I now call hypnopompics!!!...

🧐https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Thorpe

https://baseballhall.org/discover/going-deep/The-Legend-of-Jim-Thorpe

🎶two outs...bottom of seventh...one out...Ohtani up...W...two out...Betts up...fly out...top of eighth...Dodger stadium with old timey organ for walk up songs...just played a few bars of 99 Red Balloons...heroine with fug heads, captain kurks...musicians have a similar store of musical lore as historians with their history lore...antiquarians...

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The term for playing music impromptu is musical improvisation (or extemporization). When a group of musicians get together to play spontaneously without a prearranged plan, it is called a jam session.
[1, 2]

🎶They "riff"...

✨️To riff about history means to talk, improvise, or tell stories about past events in a casual, free-flowing way. Instead of reading a strict textbook, a person shares ideas, jokes, or creative thoughts about history off the top of their head.

🎶Tucker with K...shammed again by play by play...kinda Dodgers' play by play usual negativity...Angels' not so...to top of ninth...thèy'll go nuts if Dodger's don't win.....hit by pitch...here they go!...they get squeeky!...and whine...runner takes second...K...improvisation kinda a lost art in play by plays...Scully could improvise...W....1-0...FC ground out by Kiki...runners at second and third...1-0...2-0...the hypnopompics are improvisation...3-1...W...bases loaded..." a ride on the struggle bus"...🙄...Betts to Freeman...Brewers 1-Dodgers 3...🎀...Royals 7-Angels 6...

:)

DavidDavid

Virgil: August 13, 2026

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#Virgil

Game on...on the radio...Brewers at Dodgers...Muncie with three rbi pinch hit home run...Brewers 2-Dodgers 3...Dante's Virgil...author of the Aeneid...the diaspora of the Trojans...their Odysseys...

✨️where all did the Trojans go?

According to Greco-Roman myth, surviving Trojans scattered across the Mediterranean. Led by the hero Aeneas, a group of refugees fled burning Troy from Mount Ida and Antandros, traveling through Thrace, Delos, Crete, Epirus, Sicily, and Carthage (North Africa) before finally settling in Latium, Italy, laying the ancestral foundations for Rome. Other survivors like Helenus settled in Epirus. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
The Journey of Aeneas and the Refugees
Mount Ida / Antandros: Where Aeneas and his followers built their ships.
Thrace & Delos: Initial stops where they sought prophecies and faced betrayal or guidance.
Crete & Epirus: Brief settlements or encounters with other Trojan groups like Helenus and Andromache.
Carthage: A major stop in North Africa where Aeneas stayed with Queen Dido before leaving for Italy.
Italy (Latium): The final destination near the Tiber River where they integrated with local Latins to form the roots of Roman civilization. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
Would you like to explore the fate of specific Trojan characters (like Cassandra, Andromache, or Astyanax) or dive deeper into the literary accounts like Virgil's Aeneid?

🎶hmmph...readsaid they reached Ireland...

✨️Tuatha de Danaan Troy

The connection between the Tuatha Dé Danann and Troy stems from early medieval
Irish pseudohistory, specifically the Lebor Gabála Érenn (The Book of the Taking of Ireland or Book of Invasions). Christian monastic scribes attempted to sync traditional
Celtic mythology with classical Greek lore and the Bible.
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

✨️In The White Goddess, Robert Graveslinks the Irish mythological tribe Tuatha Dé Danann to Mediterranean and Greek prehistory, treating Irish pseudo-historical texts like the Lebor Gabála Érenn (Book of Invasions) as records of real ancient migrations. [1, 2, 3]

Graves's Theories on the Tuatha Dé Danann
Definition: Graves defines them as "the folk of the God whose mother is Danu". [1]
Greek/Mediterranean Origins: Citing traditional invasion lore, he argues the Tuatha Dé Danann were driven northward from Greece (and associated by some mythographers with the Danaans or sea-peoples) before traveling through Denmark and eventually reaching the British Isles. [1, 2]
The Matriarchal Conflict: Graves interpreted ancient Celtic poetic remnants, such as the Song of Amergin, as encoded historical memories of tribal conflicts on Salisbury Plain between the incoming patriarchal Brythonic tribes and the earlier matrilineal, moon- or crone-worshipping Danann groups. [1, 2]
Connection to Troy and Broader Context
While Graves extensively retell classical Greek heroism and the The Siege and Fall of Troy for general readers, his speculative mythological framework in The White Goddess treats the heroic Age of Troy and Mediterranean Bronze Age cultures as part of the same vast, shifting matrix of myth that later fed into Celtic and Welsh bardic traditions. [1, 2, 3, 4]
Modern academic scholarship largely treats Graves’s sweeping etymologies and historical reconstructions as idiosyncratic and romanticized poetry rather than literal anthropology, though his work profoundly shaped modern paganism and fantasy literature. [1, 2]

🎶Ohtani up...ground out...to top of eighth...Dante chose Virgil as his mentor in his journey thru Hell-Dante's Inferno...

✨️There are no dreamers or specific circles for "dreamers" in Dante's Inferno. Dante does not sleep or experience prophetic dreams while traveling through Hell. [1]

The famous prophetic morning dreams in The Divine Comedy all take place later in the second part of the epic, Purgatorio, when the pilgrim rests on the mountain of Purgatory. [1, 2, 3]
If you meant a different literary work, a specific video game adaptation, or if you want to explore the dreams that happen in Purgatorio, let me know how you'd like to proceed!

✨️In Purgatorio, Dante the Pilgrim experiences three prophetic dreams on three consecutive nights just before dawn. According to medieval belief, dreams that occur right before daylight are the ones that reveal absolute truth. Each dream marks a major transition point in his climb up Mount Purgatory. [1, 2]

1. The Eagle and Ganymede (Canto IX)

• The Dream: Dante dreams he is a young prince named Ganymede on Mount Ida, hunted down and snatched up by a massive, golden-feathered eagle. The eagle carries him up into the "sphere of fire," burning them both so intensely that the heat wakes him up in terror. [1, 2, 3]
• The Reality: While Dante slept, Saint Lucy physically picked him up from the Valley of the Rulers and carried him up to the locked gates of Purgatory proper. The eagle's fire symbolized the purifying intense love he was about to face. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

2. The Siren (Canto XIX)

• The Dream: Dante encounters a deformed, stammering woman with crooked feet and severed hands. As he stares at her, his gaze magically transforms her into a stunningly beautiful Siren who sings of how she enchanted Ulysses. Suddenly, a holy lady appears and orders Virgil to step forward. Virgil rips open the Siren's clothes, exposing her rotting belly; the stench is so terrible that Dante snaps awake. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
• The Reality: This dream happens right before Dante ascends to the upper terraces of Purgatory. The Siren represents the sins of the flesh (greed, gluttony, and lust), which look beautiful at first but hide total corruption underneath. [1, 2, 3, 4]

3. Leah and Rachel (Canto XXVII)

• The Dream: Dante falls asleep on the final steps of the mountain and dreams of a young, beautiful woman named Leah walking through a meadow, gathering flowers to weave into a garland. In the dream, Leah mentions that her sister Rachel sits all day long in front of a mirror, quietly admiring her own eyes.
• The Reality: This dream takes place just as Dante is about to step into the Earthly Paradise (the Garden of Eden). The Old Testament sisters represent the perfect balance of a holy life: Leah represents the active Christian life, while Rachel represents the contemplative life of meditation and looking toward God. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5

🎶hmmph...I'm considering Virgil a term for my dream parent parenting...we don't get along...fight and quarrel...dream fights something else...Jung used term Shadow...I'll use Virgil...

🦋Dream: Viigil to my left...we're around a table...a black,  minor gangster is to my right...I know him...a gangster rerun, and he's asking me for a donation...I say no...Virgil approved...the gangster begs, "for my kids"...I hesitate, I have no funds myself, and a roll like a stamp roll appears with fifty dollar bills...I tear one off for him...happy, he walks off to my right...I follow...reach a plaza...girls in colorfull pale colors, sarongs?, knock down a leafless tree special to the plaza...incensed, I confront the two sisters...behind me their mistress...I turn to berate her...sorta...she's impressive...like twice as tall as me...I'm thinking up an insult while noticing her odd hips, and then beneth her sheer dress, her perfect breasts, which negate the insult I toss..."what are you going to do,  four tits!"...I wake up...

🎶those hips were like tits...lol...anyway,  Dodger's two outs to go...hit...tying runs on...top of ninth..."Cheerio" up!?...3-2...hit...one run scores...first and third...hit...Brewers 4-Dodgers 4...Cheerio has four tits...another hit...:Chourio" scores go ahead run...Brewers 5-Dodgers 4...Brewers high in the standings...?...74-47  atop National Central...1st place teams pacing one another...Braves and Dodgers both 73-48...to bottom of ninth...

🦋Dream...two miniature baseballs, dark, with colored threads, a larger baseball, then a few glass like balls with colorful streaking inside...I wake up...

🎶Muncie up...K...Tucker up...0-11...play by play always down on Tucker...fly out...Brewers 5-Dodgers 4...Rangers 0-Angels 7...😇

:)

DavidDavid

Memory: August 12, 2026

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City Words

#Memory

Game on...on the radio...Royals at Dodgers...the Sumerian Handbag take, brought up another Sumerian curio, a fringe curio, that offers an explanation for why dreams are so hard to report...Royals 0-Dodgers 0...top of second...the Sumerian curio is that Enki, of the Gilgamesh epic, put a block on humanity remembering their dreams!...kinda like the Men in Black's flashy thing...I thought of that memory swipe not unlike losing, forgetting,  hypnopompics...

✨️the Sumerian curio is that Enki, of the Gilgamesh epic, put a block on humanity remembering their dreams!.

the Sumerian curio is that Enki, of the Gilgamesh epic, put a block on humanity remembering their dreams!.

the Sumerian curio is that Enki, of the Gilgamesh epic, put a block on humanity remembering their dreams!.
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The premise that the Sumerian god Enki placed a block on humanity remembering their dreams is a misconception. In actual Mesopotamian texts like the Epic of Gilgamesh, dreams are prominent and frequently remembered and interpreted rather than blocked. [1, 2, 3]
Facts About Dreams in Mesopotamian Literature
Frequent Reoccurrence: Characters like Gilgamesh and Enkidu experience and vividly recount multiple profound, prophetic dreams throughout the epic. [1, 2, 4]
Role of Interps: Dreams serve as vital communications from the divine or the netherworld, interpreted by figures like Gilgamesh's mother, Ninsun. [1, 2, 4, 5]
Enki's Real Role:Enki (also known as Ea) is typically portrayed as a wise and sympathetic creator/protector of mankind, rather than a suppressor of human consciousness or memory. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

🎶I haven't close read Gilgamesh...feed dropped the fringe take on Enki..it's out there, on the web, and beyond beyond, but, but I've thought it myself...Mookie with Homerun...Royals 1-Dodgers 1...not just that we can't remember our dreams, but can't enter them...we can a little bit

✨️we can't remember our dreams, and can't enter them...we can a little bit

Forgetting dreams happens because brain chemistry shifts during REM sleep, turning off the memory-saving switch. Waking up suddenly to loud alarms causes a spike in stress hormones that wipe out short-term recall. To enter or remember dreams better, stay completely still upon waking and keep a journal.
[1, 2, 3, 4]

🎶Switch!...alz folk looking for that switch...hmmph...alz is syndrome...different things combined...complicated...but, but, trying to grab my own hypnopompics, has become a game-games develop skills...I have a backlog...cats anxious...they dont forget dinner time...bbk..we have a lot of senses...memory is a seeing sense...we recover a memory and hold it, view it...oh, 0-6, aand Ohtani hits two rbi homerun...Royals 2-Dodgers 3...

✨️we have a lot of senses...memory is a seeing sense...we recover a memory and hold it, view it.

✨️Memory acts as a seeing sense. We pull back a past event and look at it in our minds. This inner sight lets us hold and view old moments like pictures. [1, 2, 3, 4]

🎶viewing hypnopompics like viewing a flopping fish near getting back in the ocean!...for sometime, dormant senses...anyway, Enki's block...

✨️In mainstream mythology, Enkidu does not block anyone from entering dreams; rather, he acts as an essential interpreter of dreams in The Epic of Gilgamesh. However, the premise that "Enkidu blocks entering dreams" stems from a highly specific, modern fringe theory that intersects pop-culture lore (primarily the Fate franchise) and psychoanalytic alternative readings of ancient texts. [1, 2]

The origin of this theory relies on a clever linguistic and symbolic conflation of three main concepts.

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1. The Pop Culture Origin (Fate/strange Fake)
The modern internet theory that Enkidu can literally block a person from entering or hijacking dreams comes directly from the Fate anime and light novel universe, specifically Fate/strange Fake.
• In this lore, the character Thia Escardos or entities attempting to manipulate the dream realm find their metaphysical access barred.Because Enkidu is the "Chains of Heaven" (made by the gods from the earth), his conceptual essence acts as a fundamental defense mechanism for the world's consciousness.He can physically and spiritually "bind" space, creating a barrier that prevents external, malevolent spirits from entering or altering a sleeping person's mind.
2. The Textual Misconception: "The Cockblock"
In Tablet II of the literal Epic of Gilgamesh, there is a famous scene where Enkidu literally, physically blocks a doorway. [1, 2]
• Gilgamesh intends to claim jus primae noctis (the right to sleep with a new bride on her wedding night).Enkidu stands in the doorway of the marital chamber to bar Gilgamesh from entering.In modern online fringe interpretations, "blocking the chamber of love/dreams" has been humorously and metaphorically adapted into a broader esoteric theory about Enkidu blocking the path to the subconscious or desires. [1]
3. The Psychoanalytic Fringe Theory
In deep psychological alternative readings of the myth (influenced by Carl Jung), Enkidu represents the "Wild Man" or the uninhibited shadow self. [1]
• Gilgamesh repeatedly practices dream incubation—sleeping in a magic circle to receive visions from the gods.Enkidu is always the one who filters, refines, and interprets these nightmares into positive omens.The fringe theory suggests that Enkidu acts as an ego defense mechanism or an internal "censor." By sanitizing the terrifying nightmares sent by the gods, Enkidu effectively blocks the raw, unfiltered cosmic horror from completely breaking Gilgamesh's sanity, acting as a gatekeeper to his deeper unconscious mind. [1, 2, 3]

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🎶Enkidu is the Dude!...but, but, that's just crazy, then and now, anyone would go on and on about dreams...one has them, one forgets them...move on...they do have a governor...

✨️dreams have governor

Levels of Experience: Subjective frameworks categorize dream experiences from basic geometric transition patterns up to fully immersive lucid dreams, though sensory caps are not officially quantified. [1]

🎶

Thought is there are dreams too extreme for people to experience...madness follows...

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H.P. Lovecraft built his entire philosophy of "cosmic horror" on the idea that certain truths and dreams are too vast for the human mind to survive. He believed that the human brain is a fragile container, completely unsuited for the raw, chaotic realities of the universe. When his characters catch a glimpse of these hidden truths—often through vivid, invasive dreams—their mental architecture completely collapses. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Lovecraft's Core Premise of Madness
• The mind as a shield: Ignorance is the only thing keeping humanity safe and sane.The danger of correlation: Piecing together stray bits of cosmic knowledge cracks the mind.Dreams as doorways: Sleep is when human defenses lower, allowing alien realities to leak in.Inevitable doom: Survival is impossible once the brain sees the true scale of the cosmos. [1, 2, 3, 4]
Key Examples from His Stories
• "The Call of Cthulhu"Sensitive artists and dreamers across the globe experience identical, agonizing nightmares of a sunken, non-Euclidean city.The dreams are broadcasted telepathically by a slumbering god, and the sheer mental weight drives these fragile humans to hysteria and madness."The Shadow out of Time"The protagonist suffers an extended mental break where his mind is swapped across time with an alien entity.He remembers the experience only as a series of horrific, impossible dreams that leave him permanently fractured. [1, 2]"Beyond the Wall of Sleep"An institutionalized, seemingly simple man experiences cosmic battle-dreams of immense light and geometric complexity.The human brain cannot handle the scale of these visions, viewing them as violent, chaotic madness.Would you like to look at how Lovecraft used impossible geometry in these dreams, or explore other authors like Robert W. Chambers who wrote about madness-inducing art?

🎶🙄"this way madness lies"...

“O, that way lies madness; let me shun it, and be no more of that,”...King Lear. ✨️🧐

🎶Faducha with home run...Royals 2-Dodgers 4...aand, THAT makes sense that dreams are blocked, to prevent madness...all the senses have volume controls, governors, blocks...alz patients lose their blocks...gain others...or some such...

✨️Yes, Alzheimer's disease damages brain areas that regulate feelings, causing patients to lose control over their emotions rather than intentionally blocking them out. This damage leads to sudden mood swings, anger, or apathy. You can find helpful guidance and management strategies through the

Alzheimer's Association.
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✨️too sad to think on

✨️Lovecraft influences movie Alien franchise, movie Inception

H.P. Lovecraft’s cosmic horror heavily influences the Alien franchise through themes of incomprehensible alien life and indifferent higher beings. For Inception, direct literary ties to Lovecraft are minimal, but thematic links exist through surreal, mind-bending realities and existential dread. [1, 2]
The Lovecraftian Roots of the Alien Franchise
Writer Intent: Screenwriter Dan O’Bannon explicitly wrote Alien trying to capture Lovecraft's mood and sense of cosmic unknown, populating early drafts with eerie, archaic descriptions. [1]
HR Giger’s Design: Artist H.R. Giger drew deep inspiration from Lovecraftian nightmares and his own Necronomicon artwork when designing the iconic Xenomorph and the derelict alien spacecraft. [1, 2]
Cosmic Indifference and Ancients: Films like Prometheus and Alien: Covenant echo Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness, featuring god-like creator entities (the Engineers) whose ambitions and biological weapons spiral beyond control, reducing humanity to a mere blip in a hostile universe. [1, 2]
Thematic Connections to Inception
While Christopher Nolan's Inception is rooted in heist tropes, lucid dreaming, and psychological thrillers rather than cosmic horror, it shares a conceptual parallel with Lovecraft: the destabilization of reality. [1, 2, 3]
Just as Lovecraft’s protagonists face mind-shattering truths that break their perception of the sane world, Inception explores unstable, multi-layered mental architectures where losing grip on what is "real" leads to psychological collapse (Limbo). [1]

H.P. Lovecraft’s cosmic horror heavily influences the Alien franchise through themes of incomprehensible alien life and indifferent higher beings. For Inception, direct literary ties to Lovecraft are minimal, but thematic links exist through surreal, mind-bending realities and existential dread. [1, 2]
The Lovecraftian Roots of the Alien Franchise
Writer Intent: Screenwriter Dan O’Bannon explicitly wrote Alien trying to capture Lovecraft's mood and sense of cosmic unknown, populating early drafts with eerie, archaic descriptions. [1]
HR Giger’s Design: Artist H.R. Giger drew deep inspiration from Lovecraftian nightmares and his own Necronomicon artwork when designing the iconic Xenomorph and the derelict alien spacecraft. [1, 2]
Cosmic Indifference and Ancients: Films like Prometheus and Alien: Covenant echo Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness, featuring god-like creator entities (the Engineers) whose ambitions and biological weapons spiral beyond control, reducing humanity to a mere blip in a hostile universe. [1, 2]
Thematic Connections to Inception
While Christopher Nolan's Inception is rooted in heist tropes, lucid dreaming, and psychological thrillers rather than cosmic horror, it shares a conceptual parallel with Lovecraft: the destabilization of reality. [1, 2, 3]
Just as Lovecraft’s protagonists face mind-shattering truths that break their perception of the sane world, Inception explores unstable, multi-layered mental architectures where losing grip on what is "real" leads to psychological collapse (Limbo). [1]

🎶"the delights add up faster than you can"...ad during play by play...Tucker fly out...Betts up...

✨️HP Lovecraft N1 Hypnopompic

H.P. Lovecraft’s short story "Hypnos" (originally published in 1923) deals with the dark, psychological, and cosmic boundaries of sleep, dreams, and a state akin to the hypnopompic or hypnagogic state. While the word "hypnopompic" (the transitional state from sleep to waking) describes the eerie borderland of consciousness explored in the text, Lovecraft explicitly titles and centers the story around Hypnos, the Greek god of sleep.
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🎶H.P. Lovecraft and H. R.Giger are Enkidus

✨️h.p. lovecraft HR Giger are Enkidu dream masters

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H.P. Lovecraft and H.R. Giger are master creators of dark, subconscious visions who externalized deep-seated nightmares into cosmic and biomechanical art, though the term "Enkidu dream masters" is not a standard mythological or literary classification for them. [1, 2]
Shared Connections in Visionary Horror
H.P. Lovecraft shaped the cosmic horror genre by focusing on unknowable entities, ancient alien histories, and the psychological dread of human insignificance. [1, 2, 3]
H.R. Giger was deeply influenced by Lovecraft’s writings, explicitly naming his famous 1977 art book Necronomicon as a direct nod to Lovecraft's fictional grimoire. [1, 2, 3]
Biomechanical Nightmares served as Giger’s medium to translate his vivid childhood night terrors and internal torments into physical, highly detailed paintings and sculptures, bridging the gap between organic biology and machinery much like Lovecraft bridged humanity and cosmic entities. [1, 2]
The Context of "Enkidu"
Enkidu is a central figure from the ancient Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh, created as a wild man from the natural world who becomes Gilgamesh's companion.
Neither Lovecraft nor Giger are historically or textually linked to Enkidu as "dream masters," though both drew broadly on ancient mythologies, occult symbolism, and primordial fears in developing their respective pantheons of monsters. [1]

🎶welp, just who is Enkidu?...found a book:

Kalof, Linda (2007). Looking at Animals in Human History. Reaktion Books. p. 15. ISBN 9781861893345.

Aaand, my take from wiki's take is Enkidu was a herder...from the forgotten Pastoral era...historians skip over it, going from hunter gatherers to farmers...that he blocks dreams, the dream realm from us, a modern fringe extravagance...

✨️Enkidu blocks dreams, the dream realm from us, a modern fringe extravagance...

In Mesopotamian mythology, Enkidu acts as the ultimate dream interpreter and filter for Gilgamesh, rather than a barrier blocking humanity from the dream realm. In the Epic of Gilgamesh, dreams are sacred cosmic broadcasts from the gods, not a modern fringe extravagance. [1, 2]
Here is how Enkidu and dreams actually function in the ancient text:
Enkidu as the Dream Catalyst
• The Magnet: Gilgamesh only starts having vivid, prophetic dreams after Enkidu enters his life.The Ritualist: Enkidu physically builds the shelter and grooms the space to invite dreams in.The Guard: He watches over Gilgamesh's physical body while the king’s spirit travels. [1, 2, 3]
Enkidu as the Interpreter
• The Translator: Gilgamesh wakes up terrified by chaotic imagery of falling mountains, roaring thunder, and blazing fires.The Alchemist: Enkidu systematically reframes these nightmares into positive omens of victory over Humbaba.The Shield: By neutralizing Gilgamesh's fear, Enkidu psychological protects the king from being paralyzed by the divine realm. [1, 2]
The Ancient View of Dreams
• Divine Messages: Ancient Mesopotamians viewed dreams as literal, high-stakes communication from deities like Shamash.Objective Reality: Dreams were treated as historical facts and active fate-building, not subjective psychological noise. [1, 2]

🎶"subjective noise"...it's the objective noise nowadays that's worrisome...collective memory is for viewing on the Palaces' walls...

✨️In Mesopotamian mythology, dreams and divine decrees connect the sun god Shamash (Utu) and the water/wisdom god Enki (Ea) during pivotal moments like Enkidu's fatal dream in the Epic of Gilgamesh, where the gods debate the death of the heroes. [1, 2, 3, 4]

The Council of the Gods and Enkidu’s Dream
The Death Sentence: After slaying Humbaba and the Bull of Heaven, Enkidu dreams that the great gods—specifically Anu, Enlil, Ea (Enki), and Shamash—convene in a council and decree that one of the heroes must die as punishment. [1, 2]
Shamash’s Protest: During this dream-vision argument, Shamash fiercely protests Enlil's decision, arguing that Enkidu and Gilgamesh acted under his own protection and guidance. [1, 2, 3]
The Verdict Stands: Despite Shamash's defense, the decree of the gods cannot be undone, leading to Enkidu's illness and tragic death. [1]
Dreams, Magic, and Deities
Apsu and Dissolution: In ritual texts like the Assyrian Dream Book, bad omens or nightmares were ritually managed by transferring the misfortune into a lump of clay dissolved in water, invoking cosmic powers associated with Shamash (light/truth) and Enki/Ea (lord of the subterranean freshwaters/Apsu). [1]
Enki’s Indirect Messages: Enki is famously known to bypass divine restrictions or communicate future catastrophes (like sending a warning of the flood through a reed wall or a dream to Atrahasis) using subtle visionary channels. [1]

🎶top of ninth...Royals 2-Dodgers 4...🎀...Rangers 2-Angels 5...😇

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