Words escape me at the moment. Resting and reorganizing get in the way of thinking in a linear manner. What's so wonderful about linear thinking anyway, I wonder?
The truth is both dreaming and goal-thinking have their merits, and both have their times, yet integration seems the best way forward for human beings, science and psychololgy. In an All in the Mind podcast, Guy Claxton, a cognitive scientist, talks a bit about his new book and explains wonderfully why myths and metaphors of the unconscious mind are just as important in our lives as the strides forward in neuroscience; both inform each other and support the other. I agree. The podcast is from 22 July 2005 with the tagline Our minds are wayward beasts.
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