[HN Gopher] Storytelling - Mamet's Conflict Airing Theory
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Storytelling - Mamet's Conflict Airing Theory
Author : jger15
Score : 11 points
Date : 2021-06-29 21:55 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| hirundo wrote:
| > Children jump around at the end of the day, to expend the last
| of that day's energy. The adult equivalent, when the sun goes
| down, is to create or witness drama--which is to say, to order
| the universe into a comprehensible form. Our sundown play/ film/
| gossip is the day's last exercise of that survival mechanism. In
| it we attempt to discharge any residual perceptive energies in
| order to sleep.
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| I've often heard dreams described in the same terms, that they
| are a sort of garbage collection / filing system that orders our
| day into a comprehensible form. But this is the first time I've
| made the connection between dreams and to "create or witness
| drama." When I watch a movie or chat online or play a video game,
| in a significant way I'm living a waking dream, meta to the
| essential business of life.
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| But if drama and dreams do overlapping work, do people who engage
| in drama need less REM sleep? It doesn't seem so. Maybe they need
| even more than dream time than otherwise, to process the drama.
| Maybe the additional processing pays off with additional growth.
| Experiencing a thousand dramas gives one more social insight,
| flexibility and resilience than otherwise. A thousand dreams
| could do the same.
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| It's fair to describe fiction, or even art, as a technology for
| sharing dreams.
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