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They’re a form of resistance—an act of defiance against the hegemonies of capitalism and white supremacy, allowing the mind to mold and explore their own worlds without the oppressive constraints of time and space. Similarly to science fiction and speculative futures, dreams don’t rely on the conditions of the present reality to forge new identities and communities. People of color are free to imagine a liberated world in which colonialist powers no longer exist or humans abandon industrialism to repair their relationship with nature. It can also be otherworldly and escapist to imagine a journey away from the systemic violence of our earth to a village in outer space with completely foreign customs. Dream environments feel infinite, with props suddenly appearing out of thin air and a never-ending amount of characters and creatures. An hour of dreaming can feel like either several weeks or half a second. One minute you are flying in a parallel universe three hundreds years in the future

꧙꧙ • • Wake Up • • ꧙꧙ Back to dreaming Go to resources Go to top DREAMS ARE POLITICAL They’re a form of resistance—an act of defiance against the hegemonies of capitalism and white supremacy, allowing the mind to mold and explore their own worlds without the oppressive constraints of time and space. Similarly to science fiction and speculative futures, dreams don’t rely on the conditions of the present reality to forge new identities and communities. People of color are free to imagine a liberated world in which colonialist powers no longer exist or humans abandon industrialism to repair their

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