Monday, February 20, 2012
Close Encounters of the Third Mind?
I really liked the interview section with Burroughs. I felt like he was high the entire time. Some of the concepts he talked about, the expanding beyond oneself and encompassing the universe and stuff, I have no idea what any of that means, but it sounded cool. One aspect that I thought really worked, was Burroughs' exploration (very short) of dreams. It's interesting to think how the mind creates dreams. Some people think that dreams are simply the brain trying to make sense of misfiring neurons. Wouldn't it be interesting then to try a replicate the loose logic of a dream? I also liked the idea of breaking past words in order to use images, to communicate with said images, as a more pure form of "speech."
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Sure, I'm a little skeptical, as well, about the universe business and the notion of expanding consciousness as it's expressed here. Interesting how, in the interview, Burroughs seems to imply that the waking work actually shapes the dreams, creates the material for them, and, in a sense, creates the dreams. Very un-Surrealist, I think.
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