Mind You
I'm oblivious to nightmares.
Last night I had a couple of nightmares. Oh, not just one, not just two , but three! Imagine having three swirling horror stories in your head in just one night.
Then I thought about all those things I unwillingly imagined and noticed that they were all the things I feared.
Take this for instance: a sickness that has been cured now being seen coming back to life. It's crazy; I know but I cannot dictate when or why things happen. They just do.
So why all the fuss between what's real and surreal - what's fiction and what's not? Well, the reason here is that what never does happen has a greater impact on you then what does. You see, the mind has a tricky way of working itself. Through curves and cul-de-sacs that fill every corner of your mind, you'll be surprised how complex your train of thought operates. It goes a long way. It really does.
I just thought, for some reason, that the brain is even more talented than myself. Philosophically speaking, it can do more things than a person.
For example, your brain can paint pictures - vivid, intricate and carefully designed ones. I can't paint at all unless a preschool teacher decides to ask me to make funny watercolor landscapes.
Your brain can sing better - in fact, it can even memorize songs and stick it in your head. The more you listen, the stronger the adhesiveness of the song. It doesn't matter whether you like the song or not. For your brain, anything goes.
Your brain digs memories. All those movies with people forgetting their identity and then slowly recover them is no joke. Your brain can entrench more scenes than those remembered during World War II. Your brain is like the internet explorer. You have the history, the cookies and the temporary internet files. Guess which gets deleted? Neither.
Maybe we're all constantly fooled by mind tricks. What the mind dictates, is sure to happen- not necessarily in this world, but possibly in your sleep. Good or bad, it doesn't matter for your brain what's you to realize and remember things.
It's even more complex than your conscience.
I'm not referring to any solo philosophy like Stoicism. But the mere fact that the rational mind can do better things than the one who controls it is pretty fascinating. I'm not trying to be a scientist but things that work differently always have ways to cause commotion.
I guess the nightmares are here to stay.
Last night I had a couple of nightmares. Oh, not just one, not just two , but three! Imagine having three swirling horror stories in your head in just one night.
Then I thought about all those things I unwillingly imagined and noticed that they were all the things I feared.
Take this for instance: a sickness that has been cured now being seen coming back to life. It's crazy; I know but I cannot dictate when or why things happen. They just do.
So why all the fuss between what's real and surreal - what's fiction and what's not? Well, the reason here is that what never does happen has a greater impact on you then what does. You see, the mind has a tricky way of working itself. Through curves and cul-de-sacs that fill every corner of your mind, you'll be surprised how complex your train of thought operates. It goes a long way. It really does.
I just thought, for some reason, that the brain is even more talented than myself. Philosophically speaking, it can do more things than a person.
For example, your brain can paint pictures - vivid, intricate and carefully designed ones. I can't paint at all unless a preschool teacher decides to ask me to make funny watercolor landscapes.
Your brain can sing better - in fact, it can even memorize songs and stick it in your head. The more you listen, the stronger the adhesiveness of the song. It doesn't matter whether you like the song or not. For your brain, anything goes.
Your brain digs memories. All those movies with people forgetting their identity and then slowly recover them is no joke. Your brain can entrench more scenes than those remembered during World War II. Your brain is like the internet explorer. You have the history, the cookies and the temporary internet files. Guess which gets deleted? Neither.
Maybe we're all constantly fooled by mind tricks. What the mind dictates, is sure to happen- not necessarily in this world, but possibly in your sleep. Good or bad, it doesn't matter for your brain what's you to realize and remember things.
It's even more complex than your conscience.
I'm not referring to any solo philosophy like Stoicism. But the mere fact that the rational mind can do better things than the one who controls it is pretty fascinating. I'm not trying to be a scientist but things that work differently always have ways to cause commotion.
I guess the nightmares are here to stay.