Kojima must have some trippy dreams
Kojima is a fucking God! This man brings his nightmares to life. Nightmares are a good thing. Back before i went into math i was an aspiring doctor (M.D. not PhD). I went into biology. We did some research on sleep. No one truly knows why animals sleep. There are many speculations, an obvious one is sleep lets the mind flush all its unused data thus ending up in dreams and nightmares. Those "half thoughts" you have throughout the day. This is why you see people in your dreams that perhaps you've passed by on the sidewalk.
Besides flushing unused data, dreams have been said to allow the mind to think clearly about pressing matters. There have been stories of inventors, mathematicians, physicists and many others who have made breakthroughs in their field through dreams. When I took my first coding class I had no idea how to code. This enabled me to code day and night none stop. Coding so much eventually lead code into my dreams. I began to work out problems in my sleep. This applies to math as well. I've been told some of my colleagues try to train their minds so they are able to study mathematics in their dreams.
Nightmares. Nightmares are important. When children have nightmares it is usually about animals, something primal. Such as large wolves surrounding them going in for an attack. Nightmares originally were meant as a "training simulation". If these wolf situations ever arose your mind has trained you to be prepared. As we grow older of course and as we moved from the hostile open plains to modern day, we no longer fear such things.
Nightmares have become a flush for our more sinister thoughts. While we all like to think we are good human beings in a sense of moral righteousness we cannot deny the fact that we are simply animals. We still have primitive, instinctive thoughts. Our, for lack of a better word, "evil" thoughts, stir in our noggin. Stress from work, school, depression, death of a family member, end up causing these nightmares. The horror of seeing someones flesh being scalped from their face, a massacre of people happen before your eyes. These things intrigue us in a strange way. Like becoming fascinated with a serial killer. We know it's wrong but theres an invisible wall that we just can't help but to peak over.
Having nightmares makes us feel more human. We feel fear, empathy, sadness. Nightmares remind us of how fragile we really are. Like waking from a bad mushroom trip. Nightmares are supposed to help you deal with the horrors of your mind.
Sorry for the long post. Just an interesting topic.
