"To come to the familiar waking self, is this not also a loosely-knit quantum commonweal constellation of selves? Only some of which appear to have much agency...?
Maybe it’s only in the recalling and retelling [of a dream or of a realityworld event] or even in answering questions like 'How are you old fellow?' or 'Why did you do that you oaf?' that a self appears, with its concerns about meaning and implications and morality. If one approaches not just the identified active self in a dream, but all of the objects and events in the dream as selves, or aspects of a quantum self, then what happens...? Do they all have something to say? If one approaches not just the identified active self in daily life, but all of the memories, fantasies, thoughts, habits that inhabit our waking lives as selves, or aspects of a quantum self, then what happens...? Do they all have something to say? On hypnagogging, do we reach into our wardrobe for the hanger labelled My Dream Selves, a multi-faceted patchwork of numerous dream selves? On hypnopomping, do we reach into our wardrobe for the hanger labelled My Waking Self, an alarmingly disparate patchwork of numerous waking selves patched together into some kind of coherent costume drama story, so that we can manage and navigate waking life without dissipating into fragments? EVERYTHING IS FULL OF HOLES"
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