Thanks so much for the reflections. I love the term “cage-free.”
Like I said in my post, I think this sort of collection and reflection on essays is really beneficial for the form, and your synthesis here is excellent. It’s something I’d like to try on my own Substack as well.
I also want to say that even though I didn’t touch on it in the post, I very much agree with your disdain for algorithm-driven content. I used to write on Medium, and it’s amazing to see the way the importance algorithm influenced the content (it made it terrible).
I’m so interested in the ways in which reading changes our brains. I learned to read at three, and don’t really remember not being able to do so. However, for decades, I couldn’t read in my dreams. Any text in a dream would somehow be blurred or obscured, so that it wasn’t readable. One night though, I woke from a dream in which I’d read something-- not just “known” what it said, but actually seen the letters and read the words. And as you say above, from that point on, I’ve always been able to read in dreams.
I wonder if my dream reading somehow involved the same of changes that the brain undergoes when actually lasting to read.
Thanks so much for the reflections. I love the term “cage-free.”
Like I said in my post, I think this sort of collection and reflection on essays is really beneficial for the form, and your synthesis here is excellent. It’s something I’d like to try on my own Substack as well.
I also want to say that even though I didn’t touch on it in the post, I very much agree with your disdain for algorithm-driven content. I used to write on Medium, and it’s amazing to see the way the importance algorithm influenced the content (it made it terrible).
I’m so interested in the ways in which reading changes our brains. I learned to read at three, and don’t really remember not being able to do so. However, for decades, I couldn’t read in my dreams. Any text in a dream would somehow be blurred or obscured, so that it wasn’t readable. One night though, I woke from a dream in which I’d read something-- not just “known” what it said, but actually seen the letters and read the words. And as you say above, from that point on, I’ve always been able to read in dreams.
I wonder if my dream reading somehow involved the same of changes that the brain undergoes when actually lasting to read.