Dear Seaturtle:

“I am wondering your thoughts on what it can do to you mentally and physically to get used to physical intimacy, instant gratification to the sacral chakra, to suddenly none… I want to discover… another outlet that is not intense workouts for the next few weeks“- You, 25-year old sea turtle tell me  (old woman with cane emoji) what it can do to you..! (ha ha).

At the beginning of my walk, I remembered that only yesterday I heard (didn’t listen to it though) a segment on The News Hour titled Why more people are turning to artificial intelligence for companionship? And I thought to myself to tell you: imagine via AI technology, you choose a boyfriend, literally choose every physical part of him (colors, shapes, dimensions etc.), and you put together his mental profile: his sense of humor, words he’d often say (ex., the bee’s knees), topics he’d talk about, his food preferences, quirks and all (including sacral chakra compatibility.. the perfect boyfriend, soul- body mate AI style!

Is there such a thing, is this what the News Hour segment was about? Of course, I imagine you’d reject this as inauthentic, but what about it being .. an technologically enhanced fantasy/ daydreaming?

“I am also curious if you have any insight on dreams and what makes vivid dreams that make you feel things. Even the other night in my dreams a tiger bit me and I could feel it to an extent“- tigers live in tropical rainforests, evergreen forests,  grasslands, rocky areas and in mangrove swamps. The only place where a sea turtle can have a chance to be bitten by a tiger is in a mangrove swamp.. Is there something about the mangrove swamps for you to discover..?

I don’t really have insight into dreams other than that often in dreams, there is some release of suppressed emotions and desires, much of these from childhood.

anita