Thread: The Nature of Dream Control

Originally Posted by The Cusp

I think of those as satellite properties of the main archetype your attention is focused on, or peripheral archetypes. They exist through the main active archetype, until you focus your attention onto one of them and then they become the dominant archetype that drives the creative process in your dreams.

That's pretty much the main algorithm of dreams. Main archetype produces satellite associations until one of those associated properties captures your attention and become the main archetype, which produces it's own association until one of those captures your attention... On an on all night.

Of course archetypes don't necessarily have to produce something new. They can alter existing elements. For instance, in a recent lucid dream, I was being chased by a motorbike gang. I ran into the woods where I could better ignore them, and a glowy pixie like thing caught my attention. When I looked back to the motor bike gang, they had become an elven army. Obviously I associate pixies with elves and such.

I'm 15, that made near no sense to me...

Don't understand archetype or algorithm, but I THINK peripheral is like peripheral vision, which humans have