Imagine that what I am about to propose isn't just something I experienced which you are reading, but that it happened or will soon happen to you as well.
For only the time it takes to read this entry, stop yourself from dismissing my ideas as singular to me and imagine it were you.
What if you could remain dreaming forever? Your reality would be completely designed using the blueprints of your emotional desires.
You can live as a carefree six-year-old wrapped in the warm embrace of your long-dead grandmother's arms for the rest of your life. You can live among every friend you've ever accumulated at the pinnacle of each of those realtionships. You can combine the best qualities of every lover you've ever had into one remarkably impossible person and live every moment throughout eternity with them. You can fly or transform or travel great distances instantaneously without any consequence or debt owed. Your reality will often defy our current idea of logic and will blur the line of the impossible all in the name of never appearing different from the existence you have chosen for yourself.
The only exception is that you are aware that none of it is real. You are wholly cognizant of why everything is the way it appears to be. There is no mystery. Your dreamscape proves both that you are God and that God does not exist.
In your dreamscape, you may feel love, happiness and perseverance. You may also feel pain and sadness if you choose to feel it. If you want to struggle, fail, work hard and eventually succeed gloriously, you may do that. You may even choose a life of disappointment and failure if that is your idea of a Utopian existence. Whatever utopia is to you, you may have it. Whatever reasons you would want to stay on earth and continue living in reality, you can have in your utopia. All of it commingles in your mind and spirit the same way it would if the same feelings affected you in reality today, as it did yesterday and as you imagine it will tomorrow.
Nothing is counterfeit except your knowledge that it is all, in fact, totally false.
Do you choose to live the rest of eternity in the dreamscape or continue living in your current reality?
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Most of us have an idea of reality. Those perceptions shape us for as long as we believe them. Sometimes, those perceptions are revealed to be false in one way or another. What we once believed is then gone. Poof. Or more accurately, it never existed and now we know it. So what remains in us? If how we once saw things is revealed not to be true, what happens to us after this revelation? What is still there in our thoughts and feelings that doesn't switch immediately with these revelations?
What is it?
Is it disbelief? Is it laziness? Is it some unnamed cognitive response?
Why is it that when my reality is greatly altered, am I unable to believe it and yet, would never dream of remaining in a dreamscape I knew to be false?
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