Wide Open

Midsummer Nights Dream Act IV Scene I - A wood - Titiania [i.e., Titania], queen of the fairies, Bottom, fairies attending & etc."
by Henry Fuseli, 1741-1825

... neither the reality of a single night nor even of a person's entire life can be equated with the full truth about his innermost being. And no dream, he responds is altogether a dream.( Schnitzler )


Wide Open or Around Quantum Entanglement, Dreams and Synchronicity//

Around December 23 2011 me and Milena Szafir, started talking via e-mail, bringing to discussion ideias that could converge in a paper that we can write together for the next Consciousness Refremed conference, that will be held in Greece - TECHNOETIC TELOS Art, Myth and Media

"Its theme from the conjunction of telos and tele, in the purposes and processes of art in the post-digital culture. At the center of these considerations is Mind, and the rich variability of consciousness and reality, to which technoetic systems and syncretic creativity aspire. Papers and projects are welcomed that address these issues, and which seek insights into the function of metaphor and myth in the emergent complexity of the post-biological era."

Here, some of the references we wandered and shared:

Abre Los Ojos (1997)


Vanilla Sky (2001)



THE SAND-MAN. (1817)
by ERNST T.W. HOFFMANN
from Weird tales, volume one of two
Translated by J.T. Bealby, B.A.
FORMERLY SCHOLAR OF CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, (1885)
* "The Sand-man" forms the first of a series of tales called "The Night-pieces," and were published in 1817.

NATHANAEL TO LOTHAlR
"Oh! my dear, dear Lothair, what shall I say to make you feel, if only in an inadequate way, that that which happened to me a few days ago could thus really exercise such a hostile and disturbing influence upon my life?"

. . . . .

"When Nathanael awoke he felt as if he had been oppressed by a terrible nightmare; he opened his eyes and experienced an indescribable sensation of mental comfort, whilst a soft and most beautiful sensation of warmth pervaded his body. He lay on his own bed in his own room at home; Clara was bending over him, and at a little distance stood his mother and Lothair. "At last, at last, O my darling Nathanael; now we have you again; now you are cured of your grievous illness, now you are mine again."

can we start talking about synchronicity?
unus mundus...




One of Jung's favourite quotes on Synchronicity was from Through the Looking Glass (And What Alice Found There) by Lewis Carroll:

The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday--but never jam to-day.'
'It MUST come sometimes to "jam to-day,"' Alice objected.
'No, it can't,' said the Queen. 'It's jam every OTHER day: to-day isn't any OTHER day, you know.'
'I don't understand you,' said Alice. 'It's dreadfully confusing!'
'That's the effect of living backwards,' the Queen said kindly: 'it always makes one a little giddy at first--'
'Living backwards!' Alice repeated in great astonishment. 'I never heard of such a thing!'
--but there's one great advantage in it, that one's memory works both ways.'
'I'm sure MINE only works one way,' Alice remarked. 'I can't remember things before they happen.'
'It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' the Queen remarked.

and here a couple o references Milena sent to me on 27 December 2011 12:41


1. Olhar e pulsão na Traumnovelle de Schnitzler
2. A Estética da Transitoriedade
3. Kubrick e Schnitzler, uma incursão no Unheimliche
4. PAIXÃO POR UMA BONECA: A INQUIETANTE ESTRANHEZA DE UM AUTÔMATO
5. Freud écrit: Fictions dans l’œuvre et à l’œuvre
6. Transfiguraciones del objeto erótico en la novela “Extraño sueño” de A. Schnitzler
7. A música enquanto sonho: a trilha sonora enquanto elemento onírico em De olhos bem fechados, de Stanley Kubrick
8. Manuscritos

Eyes Wide Shut (1999)




How to See Quantum Entanglement
Human eyes can detect the spooky phenomenon of quantum entanglement — but only sometimes, a new study on the physics preprint website arXiv.org claims. While eyes can help determine if two individual photons were recently entangled, they can’t tell if the brighter bunch of photons that actually hit the retina are in this bizarre quantum state.

“In general you think these quantum phenomena that involve only a few particles, they’re really far removed from us. That is actually not so true anymore,” said physicist Nicolas Brunner of the University of Bristol. “You could really go to an experiment by just having people look at these photons, and from there really actually see entanglement.”

In an earlier paper, Brunner and colleagues at the University of Geneva in Switzerland sketched out an experiment in which a human observer could replace a standard quantum detector. This isn’t as far-fetched as it sounds, they say, because the eye’s most important job is to be a sensitive photon detector...




Quantum Entanglement Visible to the Naked Eye
"By linking the electrical currents of two superconductors large enough to be seen with the naked eye, researchers have extended the domain of observable quantum effects. Billions of flowing electrons in the superconductors can collectively exhibit a weird quantum property called entanglement, usually confined to the realm of tiny particles, scientists report in the September 24 Nature."


Processing Easy Eye Tracker Plugin (PEEP)
http://text20.net/node/14






You and the universe are endowed with unlimited evolutionary bandwidth

http://synapticstimuli.com/bandwidth/




Shakespeare’s Botanical References – Love In Idleness Flowers:
"It is evident that William Shakespeare was fluent in the folklore and history of the flora and fauna of his homeland. You can find references to different species of plants and their related superstitions and histories in all of his published works. Many Shakespearean scholars have devoted entire works to his botanical and folklore references. Here we will deal with only one species, Heartsease (Viola tricolor) otherwise known as the Love in Idleness Pansy. A common wild flower of the day, it was well-known to the Elizabethan herbalists."



from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream: (wiki ref.)

Oberon calls for his court jester Robin Goodfellow to help him apply a magical juice from a flower called "love-in-idleness," which when applied to a person's eyelids while sleeping makes the victim fall in love with the first living thing seen upon awakening:

Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell:
It fell upon a little western flower,—
Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound,—
And maidens call it love-in-idleness.

Fetch me that flower, the herb I showed thee once:
The juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid
Will make or man or woman madly dote
Upon the next live creature that it sees.

— Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (Act 2, Scene 1)