The Vivian Girls may be radiant icons of all that is good and innocent, but their struggle is sometimes presented with a ferocious bloodiness that has millions of little girls being graphically tortured and killed, while fires, floods, tornadoes and eruptions as well as warfare dispatch in merciless agonies millions of other people, thousands of them named characters.

In the Realms of the Unreal, 2005. Eine Dokumentation von Jessica Yu. Versucht, Leben und Werk dieses Mannes zu erfassen.

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Das Bild links stammt übrigens von Art Found Out.

Ampeln sind ein ganz schön subtiles Machtinstrument.

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Dreams Actually Virtual Reality Threat Simulation?

Time Slows Down writes
“Psychology Today has an interesting story on a new theory of why we dream. Finnish psychologist Antti Revonsuo believes that dreams are a sort of nighttime theater in which our brains screen realistic scenarios simulating emergency situations and providing an arena for safe training. ‘The primary function of negative dreams is rehearsal for similar real events, so that threat recognition and avoidance happens faster and more automatically in comparable real situations,’ he says. We have 300 to 1,000 threat dreams per year — one to four per night and just under half are aggressive encounters: physical aggression such as fistfights, and nonphysical aggression such as verbal arguments. Faced with actual life-or-death situations — traffic accidents, terrorist attacks, street assaults — people report entering a mode of calm, rapid response, reacting automatically, almost without thinking. Afterward, they often say the episode felt unreal, as if it were all a dream. ‘Dreaming is a sensitive system that tries to pay much attention to the threatening cues in our environment,’ Revonsuo says. ‘Their function is to protect and prepare us.’”