Sublime

Jeffrey Schwartz and Sharon Begley (2002) credit Buddhist mindfulness practice with providing insights to help obsessive-compulsive patients.

our original questions—what dreams are, where they come from, what they mean, and what they’re for.

TLKING

Howard Gardner’s Creating Minds.

compared to amateurs, professionals use minimal mental resources when performing a complex activity.

We do not simply rewind the video of the day’s recorded experience and relive it at night, projected on the big screen of our cortex. If there is such a thing as “day residue,” there are but a few drops of the stuff in our otherwise arid dreams. But Stickgold did find a strong and predictive daytime signal in the static of nighttime dream reports:

sleeping brain performs multiple forms of memory evolution. It selects recent salient memories for nocturnal processing, prioritizing emotional memories but also processing unemotional ones; it stabilizes and strengthens some memories while extracting rules and gist from others; and it integrates new memories into older, preexisting knowledge netwo

Hermann Ebbinghaus. Like Hull, Ebbinghaus

Thus the narrative of memory becomes central to our intuitions regarding the judgments we make and the actions we take.