MDB on Nostr: Dreams run the same generative rendering engine as waking perception with half the ...

Dreams run the same generative rendering engine as waking perception with half the corrective machinery switched off, which makes them the only place most people ever see the unfiltered output of their own world-generator. The strangeness has nothing to do with symbolism and everything to do with watching a restless process improvise convincing terrain at the speed of attention, filling in coherent architecture a half second before you turn toward it. Waking perception does precisely this, only with a rigid stability layer forcing consistency between frames. Notice the moment of generation once while awake and the whole arrangement acquires a quality of being newly painted. Every surface you have ever touched arrived the same way: assembled on demand, discarded behind you.