ache1:
Here’s my thing, okay, this is my thing, something I was ahm, I was
thinking about this just the other night there, I...
clearing her throat, which
leads to coughing.
ache1: Excuse me
just a little second
and goes into ensuite
bathroom; the sound of her clearing her throat harshly.
She returns to sit on the
floor, her back to the side of the bed, and
ache1:
This is just something I was thinking about, that the, lemme see here... I was
wondering about how ahm, how we, how we as a species, used to dream, before, before everything, actually when I
think about this now, there must still
be people like that around, tribal communities or whatever, who don’t have, who aren’t influenced by the constant wash of TV and movies, right? But
before we had all that, because I know my dreams follow a similar editing
process, when I say, when I say editing, I mean jump-cuts and, just the way
things flow, the way scenes flow into each other, it’s very much a TV and movie
editing style, and it’s more ahm,
it’s more that than it is the way I see things in, you know, the way I see
things day-to-day, which would be one continuous take from my point of view.
You know what I mean? At all? You know what I mean though, right? At what point
did that style of editing become so ahm... so embedded in our conscious, in our
subconscious mind, that we, that our
dreams began to appear as if they were edited movies? Or maybe that’s just the
way I remember them, and maybe it’s the whole notion of memory that’s been,
maybe it’s our memory that’s adopted that way of, so that my dreams are still
the same as the way people dreamed thousands of years ago, before they’d ever
seen movies, but the way my memory processes that information is... you know,
so when I wake up now, it’s ahm, it’s not that the dream would have been any
different structurally, but I remember it in such a way that it’s, that it
appears, that I remember it like a movie. Or maybe...
She’s
visibly struggling with these thoughts.
ache1:
Actually maybe the whole point is that that’s the way memory works anyway, and
that’s how people decided to edit things in the first place, by dropping scenes
and making time conform exactly the way they wanted it to, making time... Could
that, would that even be a possibility, do you think?
