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Guesswork in Dreamwork:

I would like to make a guess. The following commentary is guesswork about dreamwork! Dreamwork can be interpreted using both theoretical and experiential paradigms. (Please note, here, the distinction between dreamwork and dreams. This commentary is about dreamwork not dreams per se.)

The elementary processes in dreamwork can be counter-intuitive. What are the elementary processes? What are the elements in the elementary process?

Below is an example of a method that, most likely, is novel to dreamwork almost (but not quite odd) to the point of being unthinkable. The question, then, would be as to whether dreamwork can be analyzed mathematically and, if so, how in the world could that be done? Von Glasersfeld, one of the most internationally known systems thinkers in the sub-discipline of Radical Constructivism, suggests an answer in terms of unit, plurality, number, point, line, and plane.

Can von Glasersfeld's systems thinking be applied to dreamwork? Maybe it can and maybe not. Glasersfeld suggests looking at an elementary experience in terms of unity. For example, is there any way dreamwork can be seen in terms of a unit? Is there, for example, a whole system involved: a unit?

In Physics, an atom can be seen as a unit. In Chemistry, a compound is a unit. In Psychology, the mind is a unit and so on throughout the sciences. Is there a unity in dreamwork. If so, what is it? It is not suggested, here, that there is an answer but rather there is a question. The question has a possiblity of being a researchable question deserving of disciplined inquiry. 

The reason for this kind of undertaking, in my opinion (Lindblom), is to progress from elementary experiential situations in dreams to the abstraction level and vice versa.

Why? Dreams, while seen as being true experience (see Krippner), dreams are also anomalous. That is to say they are unusual or uneven. That means that dreams are odd. The concepts of even and odd lend themselves to mathematics as odd and even are mathematical terms. Anomalous experience (being uneven and perhaps even odd) could be understood in normal waking language as being odd.

In terms of mathematics, the even is seen in terms of a kind of plurality where the odd always seems to have an extra increment such as in the cliche: three is a crowd. I would suggest that the extra increment between a duality and the terciary is the psi factor that makes a duality (that is more easily understood) into an odd number that is not so easy to understand. It is odd. That oddity is anomalous, uneven, by defintion and, in psychological terms feels odd. It feels odd in the same kind of way that being the third person in a group feels odd, for example, when the other two people in your crowd are a couple. It is an odd feeling. For me and in my opinion, that is the way psi feels. It feels odd. Thereby, in seeing that anomalous experience is odd, we are a little closer perhaps to an initial, trial fact understanding of what the psi phenomenon is in the anomalous experience of dreamwork. Let's remain open minded but not to the extent our brains fall out. So, I say "Then, again, maybe not!" Lindblom