codonaft on Nostr: This is the power of the unconscious mind. It delivers surreal stuff, something that ...

This is the power of the unconscious mind. It delivers surreal stuff, something that at least partially matches reality. Useful for art.

It includes the so-called prophecies too (which seem to be intuitive arational predictions of the stuff obtained from the unconscious, stuff we didn't bother to analyze rationally, stuff that happens in background in relation to rationality). Useful for predicting decades into the future, especially when later combined with rationality. I'm sure it's an important component for the works like The Matrix (the prediction of today's electronic despotism in a symbolic form) and the Pelevin's S.T.U.F.F. (the prophecy of warfare in Ukraine) for example. Kortnev with his "Шла Саша по шоссе" was even earlier than Pelevin with the same creepy prediction; pretty mind-blowing music video.

A similar state of consciousness is available from the normal wake state too; that's basically what creative arational state is, suitable for translating unconscious content into art in real time. Often pretty complex art, at least for me; I understand the actual layers of meaning later, usually days-weeks after publishing it. These creative states are something that seem to still distinguish us from the sloppy machines right now.