A survey of AI-related dreams (Mayer, 2025) reports that 93% of individuals who experienced AI-associated nightmares fixated on the interaction interface itself rather than on narrative content. We propose an Interaction Architecture Internalization Model (IAIM) to account for this finding and for a broader class of phenomena spanning language acquisition, cultural meme propagation, and...
This paper addresses a decisive anomaly identified in the Mayer (2025) report: in AI-related nightmares, 93% of cases fixate on the AI interaction interface itself rather than on narrative content. To explain this “formal fixation,” we propose a paradigm-shifting Interaction Architecture Internalization Model, which posits that the cognitive system internalizes the abstract logic and temporal...