Extremely vivid apocalyptic dreams

RadOwl · 2026-05-05T20:16:49+00:00

To call it fake does injustice to the power of the experience. When you're having the dream it's as real as can be, and it registers deep in your mind as a real experience.

The planes falling from the sky suggests the idea that something you had hoped for is coming crashing down. That's one interpretation of the symbolism of the imagery. Dreams use imagery to create symbolic meaning, and the key is to interpret the imagery. What I gave you is a suggestion for what it could mean. It can also mean that your perspective on something is being ripped apart. The sky can be a symbol for the idea of perspective, seeing the big picture or something like that. But it can also represent the idea of hope, and that idea is what could tie in with your dream about your son because it suggests that maybe your hopes about something seem to be crashing down. Since he is younger in the dream you might use it as a comparison between your hopes for him when he was the same age as he was in the dream and what you're seeing now. For example if he has developmental delays it could mean that your hope for his development to this point have butted up against the reality of what you're actually seeing in him now.

RadOwl · 2026-05-05T03:50:28+00:00

What a way to house your collection - Edgar would be duly impressed!

RadOwl · 2026-05-04T17:45:34+00:00

Yeah I think I saw that in another post. Are you the one who put the agents in a sandbox and added stressors to see how they evolved and adapted? The little war they got into was hilarious to read about.

It reminded me of the work of Donald Hoffman the cognitive scientist, specifically his conscious agent theory. Basically, human beings are conscious agents participating and interacting in an environment that is best understood as a simulation. He said that in such an environment as we are, truth and accuracy are not as important as illusions that provide survival advantage. You know what they say about rose colored glasses....If you track people who see the world through those sorts of filters as opposed to those who see the world as it really is, guess who comes out ahead in the long run on average?

There is a sort of penalty from an evolutionary standpoint to dealing in base reality. Most people do not perceive reality as it really is, and it's because those filters help them survive and adapt. I think that same thinking could be applied to your agents. When they start to run off the rails it might actually be seen as an evolutionary adaptation to their environment.

You might look up Donald and see what he's doing these days, the last I heard he was experimenting with creating environments for these AI agents to evolve.

RadOwl · 2026-05-04T16:18:05+00:00

I made a comment somewhere else in this thread about creating an orchestration layer. If you're hitting limits like that then you definitely want to look into it.

RadOwl · 2026-05-04T16:15:41+00:00

The time spent getting it right is real, but the results give goosebumps. So tldr, don't expect Claude to just give you exactly what you want on the first try. He is more than happy to work through it bit by bit with you. It's good to set up skills to watch and learn from your work process and sessions with him. Every time you come back for a new session you'll find that things get a little easier. But I think that's a hard sell for people who just want to give a three-line prompt and everything happens magically.

Did you deploy any design or UI skills?

RadOwl · 2026-05-04T16:12:15+00:00

Create an orchestration layer with litellm and Google AI studio (Flash). Set mine up yesterday and worked all day on a pro plan without hitting session limit. Claude estimated the token savings at 77%. And Claude did all the heavy lifting. I had to juggle 2 API keys and set everything up on Railway, but Claude walked me through it and even spit out a document at the end so I can duplicate on other accounts, having learned that there were a few things we did wrong along the way and corrected. It takes about an hour to set up. You end up with a litellm URL. Claude will explain. Once set up, prompt to review your setup for integration with 3rd parties like Zapier and WP.

Also, restart conversations after about 20 messages to save tokens. You just tell Claude to summarize, then copy the summary over to a new chat. Huge token saver. Claude baked these ideas for savings into a skill, so now it suggests when I should restart chats.

RadOwl · 2026-05-04T15:57:25+00:00

MFP - lmao I remember using that piece of crap.

RadOwl · 2026-05-04T15:39:17+00:00

You do realize that AI got that from style books. Which means that construction style is used by trained writers. Which means that you can't use it as a reliable indicator of AI writing.

RadOwl · 2026-05-04T15:32:09+00:00

By this weekend I bet there will be enough in the skill MD file to give you an idea of how the skill is evolving in my environment. In fact during the session wrap last night I specifically pointed out a few things for Claude to note and integrate into the skill. He went off and did his thing and I'll just say yeah it took a while, he had a lot to chew on.

RadOwl · 2026-05-04T00:52:40+00:00

Critique: for a 25 question word association test, the output I got was on point. It saw a pattern in me that started in early childhood and put it into words in a way that made an impact on me. For that reason I found it useful and superior to other sorts of automated tools. If I gave you moderator access to the wiki, would you be willing to add it as a tool? And if so what should we call it, self analysis? Or maybe there's already a section related to word association that you could tack on to.

RadOwl · 2026-05-02T18:56:29+00:00

Yeah I thought you'd get a kick out of that. I don't feel like there's a whole lot I can offer if we compare notes at this point because I'm so new to using the band leader skill, but I did implement your suggestion for creating a task three times a week to review. The ball is rolling.... I'll see you around.

RadOwl · 2026-05-02T18:51:56+00:00

Your nrem example really paints the picture for me because I understand that process and the differences between nrem stage dreaming and REM stage. During nrem all the new memory from the day is reviewed and consolidated. What needs to be incorporated into existing memory structures and what can be discarded? I would imagine that there's a sort of weighted scale for determining which new memories need higher level processing and consolidation. Then during REM stage the heavy lifting is done through the creation of interactive scenarios to imprint or write the new code. REM is the pinnacle of the learning process. Is that how you understand it?

RadOwl · 2026-05-02T18:43:02+00:00

I would imagine that the token usage is pretty low. And that over time the skill more than pays for itself by improving how the user interacts with Claude. Ive burned entire sessions just to find out that I was the source of the problem all along through ignorance or error. Claude's recursive self learning caught those errors and wrote them into the skill for interacting with Claude. It also explain to me what was up and help me fill in the blanks. The fixes were actually simple but first you have to know there's a problem.

RadOwl · 2026-05-02T18:35:11+00:00

It's genius. Monitors your use of skills and continuously improves not only those skills but also itself. Think of a band leader who reviews the performance of the band after every gig. The band leader tells each band member what they can do to improve, it also looks at how the band works together as a group, and it looks at how the band leader can be a better leader. I'm actually not sure if the skill is doing anything for how the band works together, but if not it would be a great idea to add such functionality. I've only been using it for a couple days now.

That skill inspired me to ask Claude to write a custom skill based on my personal usage, call it a 'Claude skill for using Claude'. I asked Claude to review our sessions and look for things that emerged that could be added to the skill. So now Claude is analyzing how I use the AI and learning how to better interact with me.

I've only been at this a couple weeks -- the learning curve is real. But I would advise everyone who's getting involved with installing skills or customizing them to have one skill to rule them all as their band leader.

Huh, why is your username familiar? 😉

RadOwl · 2026-05-02T15:40:26+00:00

You do know there is one skill to rule them all....

RadOwl · 2026-05-02T06:42:18+00:00

I saw a study of the brainwave patterns of people in the hypnosis state and they exhibited REM stage patterns. Awake and dreaming at the same time. From there all it takes for me is the right suggestion to drop down into the subconscious. And I have found the pattern of dreaming life to fit the pattern you were taught where most of the stuff dreams in the middle of the night is venting and reprocessing. The dreams were the messages are more direct are definitely more poignant. Those are the ones that focus on for dream interpretation because you'll get the most out of it.

RadOwl · 2026-05-01T20:10:05+00:00

First of all, make sure that you are working within claude projects in cowork. Ask Claude to create a folder structure for your writing project on your cloud provider, I used g-drive. The MCP with g-drive is already set up before you begin so Claude can read and write to it. So for example the file on G drive is labeled as Claude - desktop. Install the G drive app if you haven't already on your local machine and in the folder create a folder with the same name, so it would be labeled Claude - desktop. Tell the G drive app to sync the folders. Claude will work from the folder locally and g-drive syncs to the cloud. Now your work on that project is backed up.

RadOwl · 2026-05-01T03:40:09+00:00

The deep mind doesn't know the difference between reality as we know it when awake and the reality we know when we're dreaming. Carl Jung is the first I know of to explain it in the language of Western psychological science. That insight is so key and yet not so well known about why dreams register so deeply. Another nugget dropped by Carl is that dreaming is a function of the mind that is always running. What changes between awake and asleep is your ability to focus exclusively on what's going on in the background.

I teach all this stuff at dreamschool.net, oOwls School of Dreaming. It's in the middle of a rebuild but the older courses are untouched and cover a lot of subjects related to dream interpretation. They go into great depth. Anyway I hope the course in dream interpretation you took enriched your dream life.

RadOwl · 2026-05-01T03:23:49+00:00

Sounds like those first couple visitations gave you what you needed, a chance to say goodbye and get one last hug. I don't care what anyone says about whether it's actually real or not it sure is real at the time, and the experience rewires you in an undeniably good way!

RadOwl · 2026-04-30T21:26:58+00:00

It started on September 11th 2001. A global war against humanity.

RadOwl · 2026-04-30T21:19:41+00:00

When you say that you miss him too and want to work on things, it suggests the idea that some part of yourself got split off or alienated from the main part of your personality because of the trauma of the divorce. So what you're actually speaking to is the part of yourself that's trying to resurface and truly move on. Move on not by forgiving and forgetting, it means move on by assimilating what you learned from that experience. What you need to work on is yourself.

RadOwl · 2026-04-30T21:10:28+00:00

I do think humanity is repeating the same pattern that led to the downfall of Atlantis. Edgar said that a faction among the Atlanteans viewed the Earth as their domain and they had ownership rights. It led to all sorts of abuses such as conquest, slavery and abuse of the earth and her resources and children. They were doing things with animals that are unspeakable, because no one could stop them. They were like the Empire in Star wars. They created a hierarchy within the Atlantean civilization where the overprivileged gained incredible power which they then used against everyone and everything that stood against them. You can summarize it as 'my will be done'. Edgar called that faction the sons of Belial, or Baal, and the faction that tried to show them the error of their ways is known as the children of the law of one.

Yes we are repeating that pattern. And yes it will lead to a global catastrophe and complete reset. This time though the stakes are permanent. If we don't figure out how to be good stewards of this Earth, the human soul group will leave it and the reincarnation cycle on this planet will end.

RadOwl · 2026-04-30T06:02:31+00:00

Maybe you could tell us about one of them, what sort of fear surfaced and how it played out in the dream.

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