beksinski

I find myself returning to the theme of dreams and dreaming. when I come across art that has this quality it arrests my attention and I feel obliged to let it sink in.

for example, my recent post ex oblivione (https://plantimals.org/posts/ex-oblivione-by-hp-lovecraft/) is a republishing of a public domain hp lovecraft story which is a narration that is almost exclusively set in a dreamscape.

the article enter the supersensorium by erik hoel (https://thebaffler.com/salvos/enter-the-supersensorium-hoel) elaborates on some of his work in the field of neuroscience describing the “overfit brain hypothesis”. this line of thinking suggests a function for dreams along with a meaningful way to differentiate art from entertainment. that is, art is that set of inputs which works to loosen our overfit mental models, rather than running in the same grooves. in short, art is mentally challenging to understand.