@CCSeed, AziMuth
Around the edges of the social media world, naysayers are chattering that it’s all a waste of time, essentially a detour.
Certainly we all live with a constant barrage of signs, and the demands of the virtual world have many early adopters sharing with sarcasm, “welcome to Twitter, there goes all your free time.” External impressions through the senses interpret the relationships we navigate each day. Internal notions by way of our dreams, unprompted thoughts and feelings tug at our attention. Virtual tags and posts through our use of social media and the Internet unfold at rate beyond any one persons grasp. My question is this: are we really reading the signs? Hmm. That prompts a further question. How are these three input streams reacting to each other?
I’ve been tracking “dream” on Twitter for over a month now. It’s a constant theme for tweeters, so much so that it perplexes me I never see this word pop up on twitscoop’s tag cloud. Next to the “oh my god I had a weird dream” post, sharing that one has had a twitter dream has been the most common. Now many might dismiss such impressions as recent memories populating the images of the night. I think we need to dig deeper.
From a Jungian perspective, explaining away the images in this manor will not do. It nullifies the autonomous activity of the unconscious. Jung mapped out consciousness with two separate centers, the ego and the unconscious. Unlike Freud he saw within the unconscious two depths, the personal (the shallows) and the collective (the depths). While any one dream concerning Twitter might be encouraging an individual to step away from the activity (all addictions suck), there is clear evidence that many are fully committed to the use of these tools and that huge storehouses of libido have been freed up and released through these media. My reading of the signs is this: the collective unconscious approves of the explosion of information, innovation and sharing unfolding each day through many digital streams. The challenges inherent in this information flood are leading us into new paths of being. The collective unconscious always likes that.
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