Keely Adler

now, in a world of climate emergency and anxiety, loneliness pandemic, growing social/economic inequality, deteriorating mental and physical health, no wonder young people want to escape. reality shifting is also part of the toolbox one can use to escape the current reality

For too long, strategy has been treated as purely cerebral; a job of minds, decks, and digital whiteboards.

But we don't process the world in abstraction. We process it through the body. Through sensation. Through vibe, rhythm, friction, flow.

In a time of information overload, cognitive saturation, and algorithmic sameness, what cuts through isn't

Every new idea, every new direct experience we have expands the cosmos. Each of us is a different way for consciousness to explore itself and expand. It makes life intrinsically meaningful, no matter how you live it, while also making life more meaningful the more fully you live it – the more ideas and experiences and emotions you have.

It even

Ideas are expansive, elastic things, and many are big enough that they’ll seek multiple outlets.

Dreaming is about expanding our minds beyond the culture of white supremacy, and the perfectionism, hyper-individuality, rushedness, and passiveness it sees as normal. It asks us to see our connections to each other, and to tend to and grow those connections to build structures outside of the tables that were never built with care in mind.

"I lived alone for one whole year and sat in my living room maybe twice. Spent the whole year in bed when I was home! It was glorious!," writes one commenter. "I’m a lifetime committed bed person and my husband is a couch person. Realistically, what’s the difference? Just furniture in a different shape!," writes another. (As an identity isn’t fully

When analyzing the language sentiment from gaming subreddits vs. their no salt counterparts, it’s statistically clear: discussions within “Low Sodium” communities are in fact both more optimistic, less angry, and ultimately more enticing.