Imagine a dream that unfolds in exquisite detail — landscapes, voices, shifting scenes. But in this dream, there is no dreamer. No “I” who experiences, no centre that claims ownership. The dream simply is, a constellation of appearances without anchor.
At first this seems impossible: isn’t dreaming always someone’s? Yet the experiment invites us to suspend the assumption of a subject. What remains is the dream as phenomenon without proprietor — pure construal with no figure to say “mine.”
In this light, the dream becomes a mirror of meaning itself. Construal does not require a dreamer in advance. The dream is its own event, its own instantiation. The sense of a dreamer arises only afterward, as a retrospective cut that locates the phenomenon in a supposed subject.
What this reveals:
The dream without a dreamer shows that subjectivity is not the ground of meaning but one of its products. Construal precedes the dreamer. What we call a “self” is the echo of construal folding back on itself.
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