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DFRWS USA 2024: A Butterfly Dream

In this article I recount my experience in Baton Rouge, Louisiana during DFRWS USA 2024 – a conference on digital forensics that I have now attended for the third time. I pepper the story of this experience with the idea of the unreality of the waking and dream states, and how both are actually dreams, much like the Butteryfly Dream parable from Zhuangzi.

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Don’t Leave the Iron On

A few days ago I dreamt a nightmare involving my late mother. In this dream, my mother left her heated iron on our black table for two and a half weeks. I returned home one day to find the entire home burnt, walls blackened by consequence of the fire lit by the iron. I woke up around 3:30 AM with my thoughts soaked by the dream, like an all pervading fog. I inspected it from its various facets of interpretation, and extracted the abstracted lesson.

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