{"id":1242,"date":"2013-07-31T08:29:38","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T16:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2013-07-31T08:29:38","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T16:29:38","slug":"behind-the-eyelids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=1242","title":{"rendered":"Behind the Eyelids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, more when I\u2019m half-in-dream, the patterns I \u201csee\u201d with my eyes are closed are complex and slightly changing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/texturesdoodle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"texturesdoodle\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"texturesdoodle\" src=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/texturesdoodle_thumb.jpg\" width=\"525\" height=\"491\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a hint. I\u2019m motivated to represent this density of imagery in my art&#8212;it represents the nature of the mind. The slight shift into recognizable text near the bottom hints at a related phenomenon: The rapid shift into relative awake-ness and the corresponding forgetting of what came before, even though the dream might have been somewhat vivid&#8212;even compelling. Certain fragments may remain, but most disappear. What\u2019s that about?<\/p>\n<p>It also occurred to me that the density of imagery might be oppressive or unpleasant to some, whereas it\u2019s pleasurable to me. Is that even so? Is there a way to measure and compare density and intensity of imagery or thought-forms operating in the brain, and whether that\u2019s experienced as pleasant or not?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, more when I\u2019m half-in-dream, the patterns I \u201csee\u201d with my eyes are closed are complex and slightly changing. Here\u2019s a hint. I\u2019m motivated to represent this density of imagery in my art&#8212;it represents the nature of the mind. The slight shift into recognizable text near the bottom hints at a related phenomenon: The rapid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,25,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-play-and-spontaneity","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1243,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions\/1243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}