Lately I've been
experiencing dreams where I seemingly woke up from sleep, got up from bed and
did my morning prayers before I suddenly realized 'oh fuck, I'm still in a
dream' and woke up again to find that I'm still in bed.
The farthest I've
been in this 'dreamwithinadream' is when I've prepared my breakfast and was
just sitting down to eat them before I realized that it was only a dream. True
enough, I woke up to find myself in bed with no breakfast.
Fuck.
Shit is annoying at
first, but soon it got creepy. It shows that you aren't actually 100% in
control of your body; even though you think you're living your life, it may be
that you're actually just living a dreamlike existence all those while, and
what you'll find when you really wake up is not going
to be very pleasant.
Case in point, I was
rudely shook by the fact that I haven't prepared breakfast when I've been
dreaming of sitting down to eat a delicious meal. Imagine if I continued
dreaming past breakfast and actually proceed through my daily activities, all
the while dreaming of it all. I might've gone on to sleep the whole day, and
what a rude shock that would be if I managed to wake up at all.
Assuming I can wake up and not succumb to the dreamlike existence I've lived
for the last 24 hours.
It's not unlike the
movie The Matrix, where intelligent computers have enslaved human beings by
putting their minds in a simulated reality (similar to a prolonged dream) so
that they think they're living their daily life: walking, talking and eating;
when in reality, they're curled up in a fetal position, submerged in amniotic
fluid with wires connected to their brains, their minds constantly fed with
streams of information to simulate the 'real world'.
I believe that given
an optimum sleeping condition, a person having this kind of dream can go on
sleeping for weeks, convinced that he is living his 'real' life. Perhaps it
will actually delay aging (similar to cold sleep) or whatever, but I don't want
to know what happens when that person wakes up after living his 'life' for so
long. Madness might only be the beginning.
Maybe this blog post
hasn't really happened, and I'm actually still in bed and dreaming about it.
It's all in the mind
Botak
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