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June 29 2025 - Memories and Dreams.

Prompt: "We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams." Jeremy Irons. In what ways and how do you think memories and dreams are related

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First off, I love Jeremy Irons. He makes an amazing villain every time. He's who I often picture the villains in stories to be.

Memories and dreams are a way for our brain/minds to process things around us. People think that memories are true recollections of past events, but that's not entirely true. Memories fade over time, sometimes they are not complete to start with, that our brains often fill in the blanks, or to make it more palatable. If we're told something about an event often enough, or see a picture related to an event, we can, subconsciously, use that info to embellish the memories - sometimes believing that it's fact.

An example would be the Cathy Bates' interview: she had been reprimanded by her mother so much that she believed she hadn't thanked her mother during her Oscars speech for Misery, she'd felt bad about it for years, it stayed with her, informing her future actions - it wasn't until a Jounalist actually pulled the video out of the archives that she realised she had thanked her mother.

It's how 'gaslighting" works. It's actually easy to convince people of something did or didn't happen, even if they were there.

Dreams can be of the past and the future.

In this case, they probably represent our hopes, the possibilities that haven't been written yet. There are thousands of books written about interpreting dreams. Most people will agree that they are likely our unconscious filtering and processing everything that is going on around us. It would make sense that, that would be affect by our memories and our past. If our brain is a massive computer system, dreams and memories are probably in folders right next to each other.