I sense the world might be more dreamlike, metaphorical, and poetic than we currently believe--but just as irrational as sympathetic magic when looked at in a typically scientific way. I wouldn't be surprised if poetry--poetry in the broadest sense, in the sense of a world filled with metaphor, rhyme, and recurring patterns, shapes, and designs--is how the world works. The world isn't logical, it's a song. David Byrne
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To understand how the world works, we need to understand the dreamlike qualities of the universe. We need to look at the universe as a dream and not a logical place. In a book called “The Secret Life of the Brain” neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran talks about how neuroscience has been changed by discoveries in neuroscience that have been made over the past few years.

He says that the brain is filled with all sorts of poetic and metaphorical features and that these features are so consistent and so strong that we can’t help but see them in our everyday lives. When we think about our mind, we should think of it as an endless dream and all of its images, patterns, and metaphors will be there for us to see.

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