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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]
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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.
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🎶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]
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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?
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.[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
✨️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]
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 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]
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 DreamThe 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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