Sophicating? Suffocating!
Last night i felt like i was suffocating in my body. It was the strangest feeling. Suddenly i felt trapped inside myself. My head, legs, and arms all felt like giant walls. My flesh felt like the padded cushonings of a solitary confinment ward. Needless to say i cried myself to sleep.
I heard somewhere that the origin of saying "Bless you" when somone sneezes came from people who thought sneezing meant your soul was trying to escape from your body. I felt like that last night. In some ways it comforted me as well as scared the shit out of me. If my own body could feel as unfamiliar and stifling as a cage, maybe there is an extra spark that defines me, and maybe somday when i die it will escape into the great beyond.
Or maybe i am just coming down with something.
I heard somewhere that the origin of saying "Bless you" when somone sneezes came from people who thought sneezing meant your soul was trying to escape from your body. I felt like that last night. In some ways it comforted me as well as scared the shit out of me. If my own body could feel as unfamiliar and stifling as a cage, maybe there is an extra spark that defines me, and maybe somday when i die it will escape into the great beyond.
Or maybe i am just coming down with something.