As you may have noticed, I dare to make up stuff. You can, too. (As a matter of fact, you do, all the time, but you don\u2019t know it. It\u2019s unconscious. Maybe with the tools I\u2019m producing you can know it a little more, or at lest know about that.)<\/p>\n
The fancy term for making up stuff and thinking it\u2019s really real is \u201cconfabulation,\u201d but technically that refers to when people believe the stuff they unconsciously make up. It\u2019s related to another big word, which I forget, but it will come back to me. Ah yes, \u201cverisimilitude!\u201d It all seems so real! Dreams, that is, the events are compelling. They are seductive, as if to say, \u201cIsn\u2019t this enough for you? What do you want? It really seems real\u2014verily, it seems\u2014verisimilitude. Get it. It is really a word, though. It\u2019s used in sentences such as: That stage magician\u2019s illusions really seem to be, well, real. Verisimilitude!<\/p>\n
Back to confabulation—when you know you\u2019re making it up, I call it fabulation, for want of a better word. We\u2019re just foolin\u2019 around here. <\/p>\n
Now, here\u2019s an example of fabulation: Contemplating my morning dream\u2014it seemed so real until I woke up\u2014and it occurred to me that our 3-D world is just sort of the outer \u201cskin\u201d of a higher reality. We\u2019ve been getting increasing evidence that we are fed into and enlivened by a 5-D or 6-D realm. That explains so much.<\/p>\n
The \u201cepiphanous delusion\u201d is one where it "all comes together, somehow," a feature of paranoid schizophrenia. There\u2019s an epiphany, an aha!-type feeling. On the other hand, if you can indeed link it to enough<\/em> reality, then it\u2019s not a delusion but a paradigm-shifting breakthrough. Then you\u2019re called a genius. On the other hand, if you can\u2019t pin down enough links, you\u2019re considered crazy. I’m pretty sane most of the time, sane enough to know to say that my notion is just a passing fantasy. As you may have noticed, I dare to make up stuff. You can, too. (As a matter of fact, you do, all the time, but you don\u2019t know it. It\u2019s unconscious. Maybe with the tools I\u2019m producing you can know it a little more, or at lest know about that.) The fancy term for making […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foolin","category-world-of-almost-real"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091"}],"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=2091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2092,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091\/revisions\/2092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
But don’t you see? It’s obvious! (Said passionately and naively): Dream! The way they’re so alluring and rich: \u201cCome be with us,\u201d they seem to call. \u201cDon’t wake up into the demands of reality. There’s gravity out there, waiting to suck you down. There’s "down"—not like here in the dream-realm!" Well, that’s today’s confabulation. [Postscript: Here\u2019s a scary thought: What if that whole theory is right? Nah.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"