A dreamer's Manifesto (2024)

The New Defense of a Dream

professional dreamer is not my name. It is a job title, hence the small case. After all, our identity is defined by the answer to the 'what do you do' question. Isn't it?

I am a dreamer. Nobody wants my job. I live in an open office filled with empty chairs, occasionally occupied by stray savages like yourself. It rather resembles a cinema theatre. If you are reading this, You have just entered through the fourth wall.

Welcome, soul.

In my line of work, one achieves unimpressive success if measured by the ever-accelerating whirlpool of media society's mind.

I am an invisible, a nobody, ignored and unpaid. Stuck here forever with a lifetime contract of a second-class fool who cannot be taken seriously.

But the job perks or so-called benefits are dreamy. First and foremost, I enjoy absolute freedom - a rare privilege.

Anything is possible.

I hereby make the executive decision to flip the Coin and turn my ultimate weakness into my ultimate strength.

Dreaming, mo chara, is the single most under-appreciated human superpower.

It all starts with a dream.

Hail to heroes of our times, of various realms, who openly dream(ed) for a living - Einstein, Spielberg, Lynch. They are no obscure figures, you might argue. But is their success attributed to their capacity to dream? It must indeed have been some other quality that propelled them into the spotlight.

>Nobody normal ever accomplished anything meaningful in this world. (Jonathan Byers, Stranger Things)

"Lost in a dream?" asks the tax collector. A reality check.

"What is reality?" asks the dreamer. A dream check.

Let's flip the Coin again. It rises in a feather-light movement and ...

What can we trust that we really know? How can we possibly stand up to gaslighting and ignorance while stuck in our intermittent state of dream paralysis? When our limited perception of reality is the only thing we can, perchance, go by?

Well, well… morning bell, glorious mind! It's shocker noon. I am here to remind you that awakening matters.

Except.

It is precisely the necessary step toward awakening, the realization that we are dreaming in the first place.

Apocryphal appendicitis:

The respectable, useful person who lives in reality

The outcast

I turn my head

Sister hope

Can AI dream? Yet?

Who proclaimed dreaming as their tool of choice

I am sure that according to public opinion

Dreamulation

Blessed Undressed

Delicious

Shameless256

Apart from the fact that nobody's in a hurry to take my job, what has bodyany achieved anyway?

by professional dreamer, block height: 822880


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