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adage, the kitten’s eyes were just staring at me, waiting, but seemingly without expectation. The rest of what you said was spot-on. If the kitten did represent the ESI that I had coffee with, then yes, I did see her as perhaps needing my help, even though she was fine without it and didn’t ask for it.
Yes. The kitten was under water but didn’t seem troubled by that. It was surrounded by ice, and if you’ve ever met an ESI, you probably know how they can hold back any expression of their feelings, especially if they don’t know you.
As for my relationship with my dreams, I think my dreams are monologues from my lizard brain, where emotions lie, but not language. So people rarely speak in my dreams; the dreams are all about feelings, situations, and impressions. Probably exactly like the way a lizard experiences the world.
But that lizard is me and it shares my impressions of the world, but it can’t speak language to the supercomputer mammal overlaid brain, so it has to communicate in images, when the supercomputer isn’t busy doing supercomputer things.
“I” run the logic in this operation, but the lizard brain does the emotions.
When I remember my dreams, I pay attention to them, because they are insight from my emotional half, conveyed in the language of images.