“The peculiar cautionary hubris of purportedly ‘objective’ analysis often produces startling stupidity. A great example is listening to science talk about dreaming. One hears phrases such as ‘important to the formation and retention of memories’. It’s like saying teeth are ‘important to the chewing process’. Dreaming is like having a date with memory’s function, character and activity. We imagine that things ‘get stored’ like files in the brain, which is like a computer. This is absolutely wrong. Things get stored like twelve scenes from modern versions of Alice in Wonderland, shotgunned throughout the neural forest like a nonsense poem whose capacity to store content, context and connotation makes files look like something only drooling idiots would ever come up with.”

— an anonymous mnemonist