Your Mind is a Multiverse
the rough draft. lemme know if something is unclear or inconsistent...
Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, and Giorgio de Chirico all express a certain degree of the ultimate art form. Yet, unfortunately, they fall short because their ability to fully embody it is limited. Their realities couldn’t fully be represented because their true iterations remained in their mind’s eye, while the limited tangible expression was attempting to be portrayed physically; it was hindering the art form itself. The reason it is hindered is because it is no longer a thriving part of the mind’s universe, but a captured frame of the event and making it a fictional relic. Dreaming is the art of thought, and thus is the highest form; every form of art is an attempt to immortalize the experience one has in their thoughts and ideas.
Dreams are much more than just the living artwork, but are in fact an alternate reality. As real a reality as the one everyone experiences as a whole. The reality of mind is comprised of limitless possibilities. It is timeless, placeless, and dynamic within its own existence. It is capable of instilling memories, and sometimes they are so powerful they are more vivid than memories from reality. I can recall and feel every emotion and sense from my encounter in a complex infested with flesh-eating zombies better than I can much of my childhood. That tangibility I feel from recalling a “fictional dream” is more acceptable and real to me than my young memories of my family. The feel of bone crunching and flesh tearing as I smash a sledge hammer into a zombie’s skull is more lucid in my head than my parents fighting late at night before their divorce. The stench of rotting flesh and the sound of distant, almost sorrowful moans of the undead are more audible than my late grandmother’s voice as she would comfort me each night. What can this say about a concrete definition of “what qualifies as reality,” does it have to be tangible to a wide audience or can it be defined as one’s own adaptation of existence? With a little persistence it is possible for me to combine tangible life with the one of mind’s eye.
This brings about the relation of framing. Artwork, specifically paintings are put into a frame and hung on a wall. The frame is there to set boundaries for the observer. We see the mundane background, that is the wall and we see the painting that captures a moment in time, but it is the frame around the picture that tells us what is separate. Without that frame, how are we to know what’s a part of the mundane and acceptable, and what segregates the painting from being actively existent? The exact same phenomenon is taking place within ourselves and outside as social rationale. Within all of our minds is a multiverse - an insurmountable amount of multiple universes, many can be parallel to one of shared reality, but there can be the others, perhaps set in a different time frame, unique setting, or even a completely illogical dimension. Perhaps you see yourself in a universe where you actually talk to that cute girl and you two end up the happiest couple in the world, but at the same time you can be set in a universe that is nothing like our own, but perhaps takes this colossal shape of a gumdrop and each pore and sugar speck is really the personified emotions and planetary movements of mood swings and emotions. Framing is what keeps this multiverse inside of our imagination and disassociating it from the outer world of physical subsistence.
Perception and perspective are the subconscious tools used to fabricate frameworks which the mind uses to stylize and create a personal technique for wielding the imagination. The light of mind is held inside the darkness of thought and personal enlightenment is like a Rubik’s cube; it needs the necessary twists and turns of the thought process to reach a conclusion, new perspective, or revelation within one’s self. Without the ability to use one’s imagination to experiment scenarios and relationships, it would be impossible to function in a world of random anomalies. With thoughts we are able to start personal relationships to what would be otherwise complete strangers. You could have a best friend in the reality of your mind, but at the same time he could be just another blurred face in a bustling crowd. Dreams present a way to make an adaptation of what is normally a split second encounter and prolong it in such a way to give it the feeling of a lasting connection. The next time you encounter that person, an emotional tie is felt between you and this nameless figure; he means something to you without even knowing that you two are connected by some alternative existence. An interesting concept was brought up in the movie The Jacket, in which the main character is put into a small space, much like a person in a morgue, as punishment or isolated confinement, but in his time in there he gains the ability to time travel. I interpreted it as he was able to do so with dreams and with that realization, it was evident that time travel is indeed possible; for personal engagement. It’s the perfect way to go back in time to alter what would be the future outcome, without having all those confusing paradoxes and such toted with time-travel in the shared reality.
Though the sheer potential dreams, thoughts, ideas, and imagination have is only limited by the limits of one’s mind, it is the beauty and artistry that each individual possesses that perpetually turns the table on what modern art is. It is much more than the ability to create and maintain an alternate multiverse within one’s conscious and subconscious, but the prospect of destroying the frame that divides the shared reality and the imagined reality and creating a combined reality. The art is then a presentation of persons and of their dreams and imagination. It is an embodiment of body, mind, soul, and the interconnectivity that entails with a cultural phenomenon. Each generation has its defining artistic expressions, but dreams are the dynamic creative expressions that are harnessed by us all, and thus, the highest form of art attainable, yet still isn’t widely enjoyed because of our close-minded limitations we have set in our current frameworks of our “figments.”
Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, and Giorgio de Chirico all express a certain degree of the ultimate art form. Yet, unfortunately, they fall short because their ability to fully embody it is limited. Their realities couldn’t fully be represented because their true iterations remained in their mind’s eye, while the limited tangible expression was attempting to be portrayed physically; it was hindering the art form itself. The reason it is hindered is because it is no longer a thriving part of the mind’s universe, but a captured frame of the event and making it a fictional relic. Dreaming is the art of thought, and thus is the highest form; every form of art is an attempt to immortalize the experience one has in their thoughts and ideas.
Dreams are much more than just the living artwork, but are in fact an alternate reality. As real a reality as the one everyone experiences as a whole. The reality of mind is comprised of limitless possibilities. It is timeless, placeless, and dynamic within its own existence. It is capable of instilling memories, and sometimes they are so powerful they are more vivid than memories from reality. I can recall and feel every emotion and sense from my encounter in a complex infested with flesh-eating zombies better than I can much of my childhood. That tangibility I feel from recalling a “fictional dream” is more acceptable and real to me than my young memories of my family. The feel of bone crunching and flesh tearing as I smash a sledge hammer into a zombie’s skull is more lucid in my head than my parents fighting late at night before their divorce. The stench of rotting flesh and the sound of distant, almost sorrowful moans of the undead are more audible than my late grandmother’s voice as she would comfort me each night. What can this say about a concrete definition of “what qualifies as reality,” does it have to be tangible to a wide audience or can it be defined as one’s own adaptation of existence? With a little persistence it is possible for me to combine tangible life with the one of mind’s eye.
This brings about the relation of framing. Artwork, specifically paintings are put into a frame and hung on a wall. The frame is there to set boundaries for the observer. We see the mundane background, that is the wall and we see the painting that captures a moment in time, but it is the frame around the picture that tells us what is separate. Without that frame, how are we to know what’s a part of the mundane and acceptable, and what segregates the painting from being actively existent? The exact same phenomenon is taking place within ourselves and outside as social rationale. Within all of our minds is a multiverse - an insurmountable amount of multiple universes, many can be parallel to one of shared reality, but there can be the others, perhaps set in a different time frame, unique setting, or even a completely illogical dimension. Perhaps you see yourself in a universe where you actually talk to that cute girl and you two end up the happiest couple in the world, but at the same time you can be set in a universe that is nothing like our own, but perhaps takes this colossal shape of a gumdrop and each pore and sugar speck is really the personified emotions and planetary movements of mood swings and emotions. Framing is what keeps this multiverse inside of our imagination and disassociating it from the outer world of physical subsistence.
Perception and perspective are the subconscious tools used to fabricate frameworks which the mind uses to stylize and create a personal technique for wielding the imagination. The light of mind is held inside the darkness of thought and personal enlightenment is like a Rubik’s cube; it needs the necessary twists and turns of the thought process to reach a conclusion, new perspective, or revelation within one’s self. Without the ability to use one’s imagination to experiment scenarios and relationships, it would be impossible to function in a world of random anomalies. With thoughts we are able to start personal relationships to what would be otherwise complete strangers. You could have a best friend in the reality of your mind, but at the same time he could be just another blurred face in a bustling crowd. Dreams present a way to make an adaptation of what is normally a split second encounter and prolong it in such a way to give it the feeling of a lasting connection. The next time you encounter that person, an emotional tie is felt between you and this nameless figure; he means something to you without even knowing that you two are connected by some alternative existence. An interesting concept was brought up in the movie The Jacket, in which the main character is put into a small space, much like a person in a morgue, as punishment or isolated confinement, but in his time in there he gains the ability to time travel. I interpreted it as he was able to do so with dreams and with that realization, it was evident that time travel is indeed possible; for personal engagement. It’s the perfect way to go back in time to alter what would be the future outcome, without having all those confusing paradoxes and such toted with time-travel in the shared reality.
Though the sheer potential dreams, thoughts, ideas, and imagination have is only limited by the limits of one’s mind, it is the beauty and artistry that each individual possesses that perpetually turns the table on what modern art is. It is much more than the ability to create and maintain an alternate multiverse within one’s conscious and subconscious, but the prospect of destroying the frame that divides the shared reality and the imagined reality and creating a combined reality. The art is then a presentation of persons and of their dreams and imagination. It is an embodiment of body, mind, soul, and the interconnectivity that entails with a cultural phenomenon. Each generation has its defining artistic expressions, but dreams are the dynamic creative expressions that are harnessed by us all, and thus, the highest form of art attainable, yet still isn’t widely enjoyed because of our close-minded limitations we have set in our current frameworks of our “figments.”