Tag: creativity

In my previous post, I talked about how mental imagery (illustrated by but certainly not limited to vision) ultimately derives from memories, modified by the pink noise that all of us have in our brains. This is why malleability of memories is so useful (unlike the pixel-perfect digital storage): it allows creativity. The same applies to dreams, but with a twist. Again, the contents of our dreams derive from memories (we wouldn’t dream an apple if we never saw one in our lives), but the modification of the images (and other sensory modalities) is more extreme. What’s going on? Ernest…