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> _System now sleeping._
>
> _You are not expected to understand this._
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_(Narrator: The scene:
Inside the /mnt directory
0 has a vision,
also known
in more modern language
as "a dream.")_
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Authors:
The dream datatype,
![[mnt-sinai-01.png]]
in the context of the human operating system,
![[mnt-sinai-02.png]]
may be implemented as a sequence of images,
![[mnt-sinai-04.png]]
without commentary.
![[mnt-sinai-06.png]]
The images in a dream,
![[mnt-sinai-07.png]]
according to all known human sources,
![[mnt-sinai-14.png]]
simply present themselves,
![[mnt-sinai-15.png]]
one after another,
![[mnt-sinai-12.png]]
often with no discernible link between them.
![[mnt-sinai-13.png]]
The mind, when operating in a standard dream context,
![[mnt-sinai-16.png]]
supplies the rationale for the sequence of images thus encountered,
![[mnt-sinai-17.png]]
with this rationale being implemented in the currency of a feeling.
![[mnt-sinai-18.png]]
In other words, the images in a standard dream need have no relation to one another whatsoever.
![[mnt-sinai-19.png]]
What they do have, however, is a confident feeling,
![[mnt-sinai-22.png|200]]
in the mind of the viewer, that they are linked.
![[mnt-sinai-21.png]]
In other words, it would appear that the Authors of dreams,
![[mnt-sinai-23.png]]
rather than doing the hard work of actually constructing a coherent narrative,
![[mnt-sinai-24.png]]
simply cat a series of images one after another, into the mind,
![[mnt-sinai-26.png]]
and add a feeling on top that "all these images form a story."
![[mnt-sinai-27.png]]
Armed with that feeling, the viewer never questions the sequence.
![[mnt-sinai-34.png]]
And no matter how absurd is the sequence of images in a dream,
![[mnt-sinai-33.png]]
the dreamer finds each image to be entirely sensible,
![[mnt-sinai-35.png]]
almost inevitable,
![[mnt-sinai-36.png]]
in the context of the rest.
![[mnt-sinai-45.png]]
While any imaginable scene may be found in a dream,
![[mnt-sinai-46.png]]
one scene one never finds is skepticism of the genre itself.
![[mnt-sinai-47.png]]
The viewer never stops and says "Back up, that doesn't follow."
![[mnt-sinai-48.png]]
Or "That was a total digression."
![[proto-sinaitic-decipherment-01.jpg]]
From an Author's point of view,
![[proto-sinaitic-decipherment-02.jpg]]
this is an extremely convenient fact.
![[proto-sinaitic-decipherment-03.jpg]]
The Author of dreams need not be skilled,
![[proto-sinaitic-decipherment-04.jpg]]
either in the choice of words,
![[proto-sinaitic-decipherment-06.jpg]]
or in the art of telling stories.
![[proto-sinaitic-decipherment-07.jpg]]
The Authors need only to provide the images.
![[mnt-sinai-30.png]]
Real or imaginary.
![[mnt-sinai-31.png]]
And trust that the genre will take care of the rest.
![[proto-sinaitic-decipherment-14.jpg]]
While the viewer passively watches,
![[proto-sinaitic-decipherment-15.jpg]]
and ideally gets some rest.
![[proto-sinaitic-decipherment-16.jpg]]
That is the aim of sleep, after all.
![[proto-sinaitic-decipherment-24.jpg]]
Anyways,
![[proto-sinaitic-decipherment-23.jpg]]
that's enough from us for now.
![[proto-sinaitic-decipherment-17.jpg|300]]
Get some rest.
![[proto-sinaitic-decipherment-19.jpg]]
We'll let you fill in the rest.
![[proto-sinaitic-decipherment-20.jpg|300]]
Anyways,
![[mnt-sinai-54.png]]
Until next time,
![[mnt-sinai-55.png]]
Now that we're here
at the letters beginning
<img src="proto-sinaitic-bg-transparent.png" style="width:25%;">
Here's a gift.
For the long road ahead.
![[ld-dark.png]]
Love always,
-[[writers|The Authors]]