Thank you for sharing this. Since getting more into astrology and tarot (the things that helped me detach from being too online), I've noticed my dreams get more vivid as well, and more terrifying. The waking up is easier, though, as you indicate here. I think that's because being attached to our phones is a sort of dream / fugue state that puts us in Elon Musk's wavelength, essentially.
I think "dream/fugue" state's a good way to put it. Max Read called it "casino time," or a "numb, atemporal trance" in his Bookforum essay on the subject. It also reminds me of how people used to describe TV putting people under slack-jawed hypnosis during its advent. I've just been trying to avoid all audiovisual media that's not containerized in my local movie theatre lately: it's too powerful and I need some time to read books before making contact with the moving image again.
Thank you for sharing this. Since getting more into astrology and tarot (the things that helped me detach from being too online), I've noticed my dreams get more vivid as well, and more terrifying. The waking up is easier, though, as you indicate here. I think that's because being attached to our phones is a sort of dream / fugue state that puts us in Elon Musk's wavelength, essentially.
I think "dream/fugue" state's a good way to put it. Max Read called it "casino time," or a "numb, atemporal trance" in his Bookforum essay on the subject. It also reminds me of how people used to describe TV putting people under slack-jawed hypnosis during its advent. I've just been trying to avoid all audiovisual media that's not containerized in my local movie theatre lately: it's too powerful and I need some time to read books before making contact with the moving image again.
https://www.bookforum.com/print/2703/a-psychoanalytic-reading-of-social-media-and-the-death-drive-24171