L.U.E. - An Anarchaotistic View

AKA: "The Rule Of Experts over us" vs. "the rule of dreams before us."

Dreaming is one of those things about humans I'll never understand. It's one of those, "We all do it, so why don't we know anything about it?" kind of issues. Often times, the concept of dreaming is brushed aside as another of those "unimportant" things to spend any time on. It certainly doesn't help the gross national product or any capitalistic model I'm aware of, but if we were to suddenly stop doing it, we'd either go insane or die. At least that much has been observed over time, yet this subject is still marginalized in the mass consensus. It's important to our very survival, and yet...
We need to breathe to keep ourselves alive, and we know a great deal about how to keep people breathing long after they would have normally died. We know plenty about breathing.
We need to eat to keep ourselves alive, and we have a world wide selection of menus and recipes to add variety and fun to the process of continuing to live. We know plenty about eating.
We need to dream to keep ourselves alive and sane, and yet we as a species can only theorize why this is important. It is a mysterious phenomenon, and we deal with it daily, and we know next to nothing about it's purpose.
Dreaming has been placed on a back burner of popular thought, right up there with ghosts,alien abduction, and religious experiences. Events around these subjects happen, but damned if there's any financial backing to "legitimately" study those subjects. To prove, or to disprove the validity thereof. For now, dreaming seems to exist as one of those things that shall be important only to the individual experiencing them.
We still have no universally agreed definition of what is occurring biologically, and the discovery of Rapid Eye Movement is only a little over 50 years old, but only proved that it was associated with dreams. Certain neural transmitters are shut off in the brain while dreaming, which is theorized as preventing us from moving around in the "real world" if we do it in a dream.
The most often heard explanation for dreaming is the clearing of mental clutter in your down time, rather than while awake. This was presented to me as fact when I was young, and it was only in 2004 that I found it was only a theory. As are several other proponents of absolutism in the field of dreams.
I find most of the main stream "experts" have a tendency toward crappy science, as the more difficult to explain issues of the universe are placed on back burners, in the hopes that the public will forget about them perhaps. When the public doesn't forget, the "expert" answer usually involves an answer that benefits who ever pays them to say it. Either that, or the people looking for answers are marginalized as "tin-foil hats", "ufo communities", and of course, "kooks" and "conspiracy theorists."
While there are several scientific minded research scientists who do not "sell out" to the highest bidder, and I've seen fascinating work in great subjects by them, but they seem the exception to the rule of "Experts." Scientist who are driven by a need to find out and understand the interesting oddities around them in the world, and care nothing much for the high-paying government military jobs offered to their genius. Yet the "Experts" rule, over the perceptions of the average person at least.
Real Scientists like Rupert Sheldrake, who devised methods of being able to prove the psychic connection between pets and owners. Or the predictability of telephone calls between people who were "just thinking of you a moment ago." Yes, that was proven to be much more than just chance. And it was proven in the 90's. Before caller ID was a thing.
Never heard of Rupert Sheldrake? Why would you? He's not rich as a scientist because there is no money in proving what everyone feels is true on an innate level they cannot define. He won't work for companies who seek to exploit his tests in order to exploit more people and make more money. If it cannot be harnessed and brought to the bidding of men who want money, then it is of no value in the mass market. And that is how you are controlled everyday, and prevented from knowing what's going on, because if you knew you would demand it.
Even with figures such as Carl Jung, and Robert VanDeCastle, dreaming remains a very misunderstood phenomena that warrants further explorations. And as a self professed "Psychonaut", I make the human experience in altered states of mind my self-improvment laboratory.
For the non-initiated, a Psychonaut is one who practices Psychonetics, which is explained by the online oracle of Wikipedia as follows.

"Psychonautics (from the Greek ψυχή soul/spirit/mind and ναύτης sailor/navigator - a sailor of the mind/soul)[1] refers to a methodology for describing and explaining the subjective effects of altered states of consciousness, including those induced by mind altering substances, and to a research paradigm in which the researcher voluntarily immerses ... See Morehim/herself into an altered state by means of such techniques, as a means to explore human experience and existence. [2] The term has been applied diversely, to cover all activities by which altered states are induced and utilized for spiritual purposes or the exploration of the human condition, including shamanism, lamas of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, [3] lucid dreaming,[1] sensory deprivation,[1] and modern drug users who use hallucinogenic drugs in order to gain deeper insights and spiritual experiences.[4]

A person who uses altered states for such exploration is known as a psychonaut."

Altered states need not include the myopic arguments such as whether hallucinogens are "evil" or "good", no matter what authority figure outside of yourself you choose to listen to. Altered states can be being moved to dance from the right catchy tune or beat, it can be meditation on your own, pharmaceutical products you pay for, or the beer you drink. I prefer dreaming for a majority of my work in Psychonautics.
It becomes rather easy for the mundane and dull-witted among us to judge harshly those who seek out the different within themselves. It is rather easy to judge those who have different perspectives as being "scary" or "insane", never noting that "sanity" is merely a large amount of followers all agreeing that differences should be shunned, and that individuality is a sickness. These include the same folks who swear up and down they are not bigoted at all, right until they come across an opinion they don't agree with. Or a nerd, hippy, or punk. Goth, perhaps? Jock? All very divisive terms used to keep people apart, a taxonomy of self-impossed repression from happiness. After all, how can you be happy with those people in that social group over there threatening you in some manner of your own perception that you cannot exactly define? You know, like a child would. I cannot begin to tell you how many times I have heard the sneer of disgust and hatred at the mere mention of certain words.
"Stupid Republicans"
"Bleeding heart Liberal"
"Damn Hippy"
"Bottle Returners"
On and on.
But replace the word "hippy" with "Jew", or any other group title, and you can quickly see it's the same problem of judgement and myopic thinking. These titles are just words, and these words have power over how most people think and define themselves. If that's not a magic spell cast over the masses like a fisherman's net drags fish in for the slaughter, then feel free to argue me down from my point.
Racism might be on it's way out, or it might not. But while that concept is still wavering, we are perfectly content to rip each other down for minor differences.
I have biases against other people, sure, we all do on an individual level with someone. But a bias against a group of people based on a generality and a stereotype that was handed to us since childhood? We have to learn to be better than how we were taught, and more so, we must want to learn.
I have found that the one bias over a general group of people are the self-proffesed "experts" that are, generally, quoted generally on the major media networks. They are the "experts" so we must listen to what "they" say.
Well, yes "listen", but not obey and take as fact. Fact is in the eye of the beholder, it's subjective, so anyone claiming an absolute position on so-called consensus reality, is only speaking the facts they have surrounded themselves with, and discarded anything that says otherwise. In this sence, the "experts" have created a new dogmatic religion with priests in white lab coats, and their flock of followers worship them at the altar. Never once thinking, "Maybe I could do it better.", because the "experts" are here to tell you what to think, instead of how to think.
So yeah, I've got some work to do on my biases, but I can admit it. However, the religion of scientific materialist reductionism claims no mistakes or biases, only absolutism.
There are my aforementioned models of scientific excellence, the people who are scientifically minded enough to challenge old concepts to get at some sort of deeper underlying truth. The trut's that lead to more questions.

Maybe that's why I choose dream analysis.

There are many interpretations of the story in a dream once it is told, but currently, only one observer for each dream.
In the "real" world, we generally strive toward one interpretation of the story of our lives and our world, when we have billions of observers.
Trillions if you count the animals.

Sweet dreams.