@article{Chatterjee_2020, title={Imperial neuropsychology and an Indian diamond: The Quantum Ground of Dreaming in The Moonstone}, volume={13}, url={https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/IJoDR/article/view/73527}, DOI={10.11588/ijodr.2020.2.73527}, abstractNote={<p>Wilkie Collins’ novel <em>The Moonstone</em> (1868) has sustained interests of dream theorists and postcolonial critics alike. Franklin Blake’s censored dream—and his somnambulant theft of the eponymous diamond—was a pioneering thought experiment by Collins, who is also believed to have invented the English detective novel. The question, whether Blake’s <em>supposed</em> dream and somnambulism was constituted by traces of his conscious waking experience, or emerged from an unconscious source, remains unanswered as the contents of the dream are not known. Taking <em>The Moonstone</em> beyond the ambit of postcolonial criticism and reading it simply as a subversion of British imperialism from within, I present evidence for the novel being encrypted with principles of Vedanta and ancient Indian dream theories from the <em>Mandukya Upanishad</em> and its commentaries by Gaudapadacharya and Shankaracharya. Also, going beyond the continuity hypothesis, which considers dreaming activity to be reconstituted from particles of residual memory of waking experiences, I further argue that Collins had inadvertently paved the way for a nonlocal spatiality of the dreaming mind and a quantum particle-wave model for dream stimuli and interpretation.</p>}, number={2}, journal={International Journal of Dream Research}, author={Chatterjee, Arup K.}, year={2020}, month={Sep.}, pages={259–266} }