More than taking us to new ideas, dreams take us to ideas we don’t know how to think about.

“Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” — Gloria Steinem

All of my work involves thinking, and I think everything we do involves thinking. Most of what living things do revolves around thinking of one kind or another, and there are more kinds of thinking than you can imagine.

We talk about intellect and emotion, and we wonder whether animals think. This is all too small-minded. Thinking includes larger ways to organize experience than what humans do using language. We need to expand our notion of thought beyond what we can talk about.

Thinking Generally

General Thinking

Intellect

Emotion

Dreaming

Reconstruction

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