Renae Excogi (2026)

More benignly, a small community of lucid dreamers uses "Renae Excogi" as a mnemonic trigger. Before sleep, they repeat: "Renae excogi mihi cogitationem" —"Renae, think the thought for me"—hoping to enter a state where their dreams are pre-edited, coherent, and profound. At its core, renae excogi is a beautiful paradox: the named embodiment of a process that can’t be owned. It suggests that to think something through completely is to create a second self—a Renae—who becomes the origin of that thought. You are no longer the thinker. You are the vessel.

And once you know that, you begin to wonder: Did you just read this write-up, or did Renae Excogi place it here, knowing you would? Would you like a short story, poem, or worldbuilding lore based on this concept? renae excogi

So who—or what—is Renae Excogi? The earliest known appearance of the term appears in a 1973 marginal note in a copy of Borges’ Ficciones , owned by a now-deceased comparative literature PhD candidate at the University of Louvain. The note, scrawled beside "The Library of Babel" , reads: "Like Renae Excogi’s labyrinth—every thought already anticipated." No one has identified a Renae Excogi in any published work prior to this. More benignly, a small community of lucid dreamers