This opens up many exciting fields: about the relationship between waking and dreaming, reality and dream, fantasy and dream... And - would it be ethical to break into someone else's dream? It just seems like an encroachment...
This opens up many exciting fields: about the relationship between waking and dreaming, reality and dream, fantasy and dream... And - would it be ethical to break into someone else's dream? It just seems like an encroachment...
In effect, it is an instruction and not just any simple one, but one that can show you both the fears and the darkest desires of that person, something that if it were true, would even be dangerous, because how to defend ourselves before someone like that, if many of our secrets and truths remain hidden in our thoughts under our own protection? This last reminds me (something that maybe is off topic) what I have always thought about the power of reading the mind of Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men comics and movies... Ever since I was a kid I liked them a lot, I don't know what you think of them?
I haven't seen all the X-Men films, but Wolverine is very cool, Storm is a strong character... And the Professor... was always a bit overshadowed by Captain Picard for me ;-))
You're right: reading minds would also be an unauthorised invasion of privacy.
Yes, of course... But I think it would also be a great thing and the dream of many. Of course, as long as you can choose who to do it with, because listening to everyone's thoughts at the same time would be a total torment, something like when you are in an agglomeration of people and they all talk at the same time? Something that doesn't even let you hear your own thoughts, and of course, total chaos and unhappiness for a writer, because writing good lines requires concentration and little distraction. I enjoyed the conversation.
It would turn to a nightmare! Do you really want to hear what and how people think about you? Of course, at first you say: absolutely, I want to know the truth... And then you get hurt. Unintentionally, because only in thoughts...
That's a great point... But no, the truth is that I wouldn't like it, because sometimes and without wanting to, we surround ourselves with people who are what they don't prove to be.