January 15th, 2009

In an effort to keep up the habit of writing ... something ... anything, I came up with a rather meta-statement about thinking itself.

Basically, I realised that thoughts are the lifeblood of the mind.

I mean, think about it: Just as blood follows paths first major, then minor, then exceeding fine throughout the body, so do thoughts coarse through the mind first major, then tangential, then finally digressive. And just as blood feeds the cells of the body with needed oxygen and nutrients, so too do thoughts and memories feed my brain to keep my mind healthy and productive.

It leaves me with the question: are dreams just a way for the mind to feed and nourish itself? Are dreams more akin to digestion than traditional ideas of storage and processing? If so, that really throws a wrench in the "Dreams as Prophecy" machinery doesn't it?

I mean, our bodies may prepare our cells for the contingency of not having enough food (by fattening ourselves whenever we get the chance) but it's not because it actually knows anything ... it's just on the basis that the stored energy might be needed some ways down the road. In a similar vein (ha ha, pun intended), we may nourish our minds with the needed thoughts and memories not because we "know" anything about the future, but because we are better served in the future by having a mind ready and capable of dealing with the challenges that might occur down the road.

We store our thoughts for the intellectual Winter quite the same way that we are designed to store fat for the real Winter.

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