>>5888010>>5889078>>5889114>(...)I felt very strongly that these stories were more "real" and significant to me then real life. >lived my life very earnestly expecting and wishing I could be transported to a fantasy world...>I was so desperate for an escape (...)https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrealist_techniques>Dream resumé>The dream résumé takes the form of an employment résumé but chronicles its subject's achievements, employment, or the like, in dreams, rather than in waking life.LinkedIn would be far more useful if it consisted only of a chronicle of dreams. Dreams are far more permanent than reality; you can never experience reality.
Let me give you an example of this. Maybe two people both have the same job title, Portfolio Manager Global Equities. A vast gulf separates what they do. In fact the job title tells you almost nothing about their capabilities, knowledge, understanding. One could be a genius savant, the other an imbecile. They share no philosophy or values, perspectives or investment thesis or even anything.
Conversely, I tell you two people played the same videogame, in an imaginary world.
>>5888746Immediately, you know almost down to the exact button press of the keyboard or game controller as to what they both did. Maybe one was even ritualistically following and repeating the exact sequence of actions and tasks, the antecedent memories of another (a walkthrough...?) They even witnessed the very same events and images, the same sights and sounds and spectacle.
>>5880357>>5887879This is just one of the many aspects in which the experience of a dream world, an imaginary fiction, is far more tangible and conformable to shared understanding than reality.