tranceformer

config.style.page.font: "Palatino/Constantia/Georgia/serif 18" config.style.page.color: "gray-5 on gray-8 " config.style.backdrop: "gray-9" config.style.page.link.font: "none" config.style.page.link.color: "gray-6" config.style.page.link.lineColor: "gray-8" config.style.page.link.active.color: "gray-7 on gray-8" config.style.page.header.font: "16" config.style.page.header.link.font: "small caps" config.style.page.footer.font: "16" config.style.page.footer.link.font: "small caps" config.body.transition.name: "fadeInOut" config.footer.left: "[[Contents->Table of Contents]]" config.style.page.style: "thin-line" config.footer.center: "~~tranceformer~~" dream:0 -- <center> tranceformer</center> [after 1000ms; append] <center>[[𐫱->Preface]]</center> [after 2000ms; append] <center>A Machine in the Nightworld</center>

config.footer.center: "~~tranceformer~~" -- <center> 𐫱 [if dream==0] {link to: "Preface", label: "1"}. *Preface* 2. *Dream of a Hat* 3. *Dream of Rain* 4. *Dream of a Clotted Mouth* 5. *Dream of the Gnawed Book* 6. *Dream of the Lunar Baby* 7. *Dream of Centrex* 8. *Dream of Womb Rats* 9. *Dream of the Painted Cadaver* [if dream==1] {link to: "Preface", label: "1"}. <del>*Preface*</del> 2. *Dream of a Hat* 3. *Dream of Rain* 4. *Dream of a Clotted Mouth* {link to: "Dream of the Gnawed Book", label: "5"}. *Dream of the Gnawed Book* 6. *Dream of the Lunar Baby* 7. *Dream of Centrex* 8. *Dream of Womb Rats* 9. *Dream of the Painted Cadaver* [if dream==2] {link to: "Preface", label: "1"}. <del>*Preface*</del> {link to: "hat1", label: "2"}. *Dream of a Hat* 3. *Dream of Rain* 4. *Dream of a Clotted Mouth* {link to: "Dream of the Gnawed Book", label: "5"}. <del>*Dream of the Gnawed Book*</del> 6. *Dream of the Lunar Baby* 7. *Dream of Centrex* 8. *Dream of Womb Rats* 9. *Dream of the Painted Cadaver* [if dream==3] {link to: "Preface", label: "1"}. *Preface* 2. *A Short Dream* 3. *On Another Dream* 4. *Dream of the Book and the Box* {link to: "Dream of the Gnawed Book", label: "5"}. *Dream of the Gnawed Book* 6. *Dream of my Friend in a Mattress* 7. *Nightmare of the Pups and the Old Boney* 8. *Dream of a Dog Turned into a Dead Tree* 9. *How in the Dream, They all Came to G.S.C.C.* [continue] 𐫱 </center>

config.footer.center: "~~preface~~" dream (dream == 0): 1 -- [if dream == 1] <blockquote> The dream has nothing to do with the waking world but is the psyche speaking to itself in its own language. [if dream < 3] [after 1000ms; append] [align right] <sc>james hillman</sc> </blockquote> [if dream < 3] [after 2000ms; append] [align left] Each evening, we trespass through the portals of sleep into Hillmans' nightworld. It is not our world; we bring back only fragments and residues, but never the thing itself. Like the depths of the ocean, the enigma must remain at its source. According to Hillman, the nightworld is incommunicable because it is not meant to be communicated. Or rather, it is not communicated to us. The dream speaks to itself; we overhear. This short piece gives a taste of a larger and more elaborate work in preparation. The premise is that the speech of the nightworld is primarily one of patterned transformation; a transfigurative language of analogy, association, condensation and displacement, turning the matter of waking life into that richness of paradox by which the dream truly speaks. My goal is not understanding, but utterance. Since my conscious means for accessing the nightworld are limited, I've resorted to the parallel capabilities of generative AI — its literal power to transform material — to dream for me. I have trained it on my dreams, so in a sense, they are both mine and universal. I am both absent and present. Perhaps I will overhear my own nightworld; then again, if our nightworlds are connected by the flow of one vast mythopoetic ocean, you will also overhear yours. [if dream < 3] [after 2000ms; append] [align right] <sc>david wakeham</sc> [if dream < 3] [after 2000ms; append] [align center] [[◨->Meta0]] [if dream==4] <blockquote> For the alchemist the one primarily in need of redemption is not man, but the deity who is lost and sleeping in matter. [after 1000ms; append] [align right] [if dream==4] <sc>carl jung</sc> </blockquote> [if dream==4] [after 2000ms; append] [align left] This is an experiment in liberating deity from matter. [if dream == 4] [after 2000ms; append] [align center] [[ǂ->Table of Contents]] [note] In his book <sc>Dreams and the Underworld</sc> (1979), psychoanalyst James Hillman proposes that dreams are not reflections of a personal psyche, nor yet the utterances of a collective unconscious directed towards that psyche. They belong in their entirely to the nightworld; they are spoken in a language which is not ours, which we cannot understand, and which is directed elsewhere. We overhear the unconscious talking to itself. I did not agree, but wanted to explore Hillman's thesis. What forms and structures might this "language" take? The dream talks to itself; we overhear. And though its speech we can access some of the rhythms and structures of the nightworld while awake Words, images, affect, and so on, are so often divorced from their daytime meaning that they feel almost like a sheet borrowed by a ghost which is invisible but wants to alert us to its presence. And it does not speak in the busy patter of the islands, but the deep rhythyms of the sea. We catch a few phrases of a foreign tongue, a few alleys over, as we wander drunkenly home. Why should we be able to explain what the conversation was about? , and the sensation of dreamwater on skin

config.footer.center: "~~gnawed book~~" -- <center> <img src="https://s.mj.run/zvHnTyda3V0"> {link to: 'bitten2', label:'𐫱'} </center> [after 1000ms; append] <center> <blockquote> We are in a big, airy room, like a church, with high white pillars that frame the space. </blockquote> </center>

<center> <img src="https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1109444808210120786/1109842857310818394/hapax_We_are_in_a_big_airy_room_like_a_church_with_high_white_p_b4c8254c-c58c-4493-aa03-f60c54be998b.png"> [[𐫱->bitten3]] </center> [after 1000ms; append] <center> <blockquote> It seems to be in the Shikoku Island area. </blockquote> </center> [CSS] img { border: 1px solid #aaa; }

<center> <img src="https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1109444808210120786/1109843782695927878/hapax_We_are_in_the_TokyoShikoku_Island_area._It_is_a_very_beau_1b8835ca-ffd9-447b-84a9-a985705f51a7.png"> [[𐫱->bitten4]] </center> [after 1000ms; append] <center> <blockquote> It is a very beautiful area, with mountains, valleys and water </blockquote> </center> [CSS] img { border: 1px solid #aaa; }

<center> <img src="https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1109444808210120786/1109848156205744190/hapax_it_is_a_beautiful_area_of_Japan_but_the_sky_is_greybrown__96b3b697-9278-4d59-b0e1-c82c8043c2e5.png"> [[𐫱->bitten5]] </center> [after 1000ms; append] <center> <blockquote> but the sky is grey/brown and oppressive. </blockquote> </center> [CSS] img { border: 1px solid #aaa; }

<center> <img src="https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1109444808210120786/1110080433229672568/hapax_I_am_looking_through_a_series_of_glass_wall_rooms_down_at_5f9ec43a-102c-4458-9883-1daafb5f2974.png"> [[𐫱->bitten6]] </center> [after 1000ms; append] <center> <blockquote> I am looking through a series of glass walls down at the book fair. </blockquote> </center> [CSS] img { border: 1px solid #aaa; }

<center> <img src="https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1109444808210120786/1111311602617176295/hapax_book_stall_in_an_alcove_bc03072c-3639-42e6-a7a9-f4d284edcb8a.png"> [[𐫱->bitten7]] </center> [after 1000ms; append] <center> <blockquote> A book, I think "1984". It seems to me a classic, sort of dystopian. </blockquote> </center> [CSS] img { border: 1px solid #aaa; }

<center> <img src="https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1109444808210120786/1110162492539273246/hapax_very_close_up_photo_of_old_copy_of_1984_which_seems_to_be_222950dc-a177-4843-b4d9-b9a8b25ee493.png"> [[𐫱->bitten8]] </center> [after 1000ms; append] <center> <blockquote> The copy is in a strange, damaged state. </blockquote> </center> [CSS] img { border: 1px solid #aaa; }

<center> <img src="https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1109444808210120786/1111298757980606534/hapax_the_stock_rooms_full_of_books_f3054fef-6ef4-4662-8cf8-fc22b2d61484.png"> [[𐫱->bitten9]] </center> [after 1000ms; append] <center> <blockquote> We try and find it in stock, but no one knows what it is; some seem to recognize it and are horrified. </blockquote> </center> [CSS] img { border: 1px solid #aaa; }

<center> <img src="https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1109444808210120786/1111302260107006032/hapax_old_weatherworn_leatherbound_book_5215ce32-b88e-48d3-b60c-d07a38581c27.png"> [[𐫱->bitten10]] </center> [after 1000ms; append] <center> <blockquote> It is being nibbled; there is something eerie. It is a very large copy. </blockquote> </center> [CSS] img { border: 1px solid #aaa; }

<center> <img src="https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1109444808210120786/1111303676640903169/hapax_Abstract_darkness_words_floating_a_cloud_of_black_vapor.__388ed51f-3f84-4eff-baf8-ab0cee910ff4.png"> [[𐫱->bitten11]] </center> [after 1000ms; append] <center> <blockquote> Later in the dream, after searching many rooms; one of them is "haunted". It is dark and smells of mould and old books. </blockquote> </center> [CSS] img { border: 1px solid #aaa; } [note] Later in the dream, after having searched many rooms of the book fair; one of the rooms where we are looking is "haunted". It appears to be abandoned; it is dark and smells of mould and old books.

<center> <img src="https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1109444808210120786/1110404120214519808/hapax_I_dont_remember_what_its_full_name_is_it_will_make_itself_cb8fe32d-994a-464b-9690-667511097431.png"> [[◨->MetaHallway1]] </center> [after 1000ms; append] <center> <blockquote> I don't remember what its full name of the book is; it will make itself known to me eventually. </blockquote> </center> [CSS] img { border: 1px solid #aaa; }

dream (dream==1): 2 config.footer.center: "~~between~~" -- <center> <img src="https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1109444808210120786/1110923374294745108/hapax_an_old_corridor_is_empty_with_dirt_in_it_in_the_style_of__6464d521-bd6e-47a5-9f90-456c0a6872bc.png"> [[ǂ->Table of Contents]] </center>

config.footer.center: "~~gnawed book~~" -- <center> <img src="https://s.mj.run/zvHnTyda3V0"> 𐫱 </center> [after 1000ms; append] <center> <blockquote> We are in a big, airy room, like a church, with high white pillars that frame the space. </blockquote> </center>

config.footer.center: "~~between~~" -- <center> <img src="https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1109444808210120786/1111252430345207828/hapax_None_9dfecf24-be4d-4255-9a12-15992eeb731f.png"> [after 1000ms; append] <center> [[ǂ->Table of Contents]] </center>