As humans we are able to create something with our minds. We may not be able to fully share what we can create with our minds but we can use our imagination to create anything, anything that does exist, could exist and probably never will exist. This is one of the biggest benefits of being human, the benefit of an imagination.
Another major benefit of the human mind is that we can perceive what is happening around us. We can see it, hear it, smell it and feel it, whatever it may be. Yet, most of us, can only do both of these when we are asleep.
We all know the feeling when we wake up from a dream to just realise what reality actually is. This is because you don’t know you’re in a dream until you wake up. You feel like your dream is your reality and whatever happens could be completely normal, and if it’s not you react as you normally would if you were awake because you have no idea that you’re not.
This is only because when we are asleep we are able to create and perceive at the same time, we are in the middle of the process where we can perceive what we create without even realising that we are.
Part of me wishes that when we dream, we can realise that we are so that we can accept that the “ideal reality” we are living in isn’t actually real so that when we wake up to the dull shock of reality it’s not so much of a disappointment.
What i dnt understand is, why do we create a reality for ourselves, a reality we feel like we would prefer to live in when every morning we have to leave it all behind in our mind and start all over again the next night.
Marsha Norman said ““Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.”
it feels unfinished. . . . aka I want more.
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