Adventures are remembered as dreamlike and as happening to someone else

Evidence

The more “adventurous” an adventure, that is, the more fully it realizes its idea, the more “dreamlike” it becomes in our memory. It often moves so far away from the center of the ego and the course of life which the ego guides and organizes that we may think of it as something experienced by another person. How far outside that course it lies, how alien it has become to that course, is expressed precisely by the fact that we might well feel that we could appropriately assign to the adventure a subject other than the ego. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 465

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Connects to the essay argument: the flâneur’s wandering and the blasé observer experience life as dreamlike, unmoored from the ego — exactly Cole’s ‘unreliable witness.’
• XREF: Plausibly connects to the flâneur figure in Walter Benjamin and to the essay’s Julius reading — the observer estranged from his own experience. — connects to: People can remember places vividly while forgetting the events that occurred in them — Karl Ove Knausgaard, A Death in the Family, 1085; Life as a whole can be perceived as an adventure from a higher standpoint — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 473; Adventure is an island in life with self-defined boundaries — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 466 (+4 more)

Related

• Adventure is an island in life with self-defined boundaries (similarity 0.86)
• Religious estrangement from earthly life mirrors the adventure’s fragmentary character (similarity 0.84)
• Life as a whole can be perceived as an adventure from a higher standpoint (similarity 0.82)
• Adventure as a form of experience belongs essentially to youth, not old age (similarity 0.82)
• The adventure and the artwork share a self-contained integral form (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Life as a whole can be perceived as an adventure from a higher standpoint #expands (0.60) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 473
• Adventure is an island in life with self-defined boundaries #expands (0.60) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 466
• Religious estrangement from earthly life mirrors the adventure’s fragmentary character #corroborates (0.60) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 474
• People can remember places vividly while forgetting the events that occurred in them #expands (0.50) — Karl Ove Knausgaard, A Death in the Family, 1085
• A dream’s meaning shifts when read against broader colonial social context. #qualifies (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 359
• The adventure and the artwork share a self-contained integral form #corroborates (0.50) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 467