Learning a New Way To Think ($)

Dreams are a thought-style we have yet to recognize. They’re a part of our thinking process in which we have not yet learned to play a conscious role.

“Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.” — Ambrose Bierce

Rational Thinking

To understand what dreams do that’s unique to dreaming, consider the kinds of thinking that we employ in our normal, waking state. Our primary, intentional forms of waking thought are rational and emotional. Rational is reason based, which means it proceeds by connecting reasons…

Emotional Thinking

Emotional thinking is like a stack of pillows. Each pillow is an emotional attitude or conclusion providing a kind of comfort. None designed for the same purpose or to the same specifications. We create a foundation with the big emotions, and we stack our smaller feelings on top…

Associative Thinking

No one has ideas without emotions, or emotions without ideas, and they always appear in some context. Let’s call these contexts “situations,” so that we can go right to the next step: the associations we draw between these situations. Associative thinking is where we relate different structures that we’ve created from our ideas and emotions… 

Rational Thinking

Emotional Thinking

Associative Thinking

The Associative Thinking Process

Building Situations In Reality

Building Situations In Dreams