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My Perceptions By: Dorothy Marie on 10/21/2001; 4:47 PM A springboard placed beneath my spine is suddenly let loose as I am tossed from my blissful slumber into the rigid world. A sigh of dissapointment dissolves the board, and my body slumps down into a misty lagoon of warm blankets and pillows and linens that smell of me. This is my world. My reality that is constantly disrupted by dreams beginning with springboard action. My reality that consists of me. You call my world a dream world. You say it is a fabrication of my starving mind. You say it is only real through a misperception. But isn't that what perception is? Real is only what you percieve real to be, not what everyone else finds a common ground upon, what everyone else is able to adapt to, what everyone else can dream alike. Why must I be pulled into your whirlpool of endless cycles of dispair, stress, greed, and pride? Why can't I just live in my OWN reality which consists of me. This place is not real. I am not real when it consumes me. Where I am not now is my reality. It makes me real as much as I make it real. My mind is untainted by the plagues of mankind, such as fear or stress. You say my mental fabrication is absurd, that it cannot be percieved as real, yet, I can feel. I can feel everything within me, everything that moves, everything that touches, every emotion that is consummated. Put me in a coma. Let me live in my world day and night, year after year. It is never redundant; it won't hurt me. Stop telling me to shatter my glass! Stop telling me to face what is REAL! I have faced it, but you cannot face MY reality! My glasses will lie in a thousand pieces before you see what I see without them! The shards will shred my skin to a thousands ribbons before you feel what I feel without the pain! My soul will suffer a thousand times greater before you let me go. It is my perception that I am real in my reality. It is your perception that I am insane living in a dream world. Perceptions make all the difference. But are you real? Do your perceptions make you real in what you call the real world? In your dreams, do you feel? I feel. It must be real. It has to be real. If it is not real, I have no reason to endure the days and nights I remain in this world; I only stay to dream.
RE: My Perceptions By: Evan on 5/19/2001; 8:05 PM I really like this, especially right now as I am graduating. A lot of people tell me to grow up and face reality, but reality is solely what you make of it. Have you ever read The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams, Dorothy? There's a character in the story who only accepts what he perceives as reality. This made me think of something else. Are dreams greater than reality? Slight digression, AHHH how did I do that two of the same word directly above each other as I type this. This freaks me out, end of digression. Dreams encompass all of what a person perceives, plus creations wholey from the mind. So then is reality such a great thing if what exists within the mind has a greater degree of substance? Of course on the other hand, dreams are dependant on reality, and most people are forced to spend the majority of their lives in reality or at least largely unaware of the dream world of sleep.
RE: My Perceptions By: Dorothy Marie on 5/19/2001; 11:54 PM My dreams feel more real than my reality. It's strange. Reality is all just a play to me... one big drama event in which I have to play my part: the loving comedian that the audience can point and laugh at for comic relief, and scream at when they cross boundaries. My dreams become even more real when my reality becomes real; when I cross their boundaries. Oh well... I'm just rambling here.
RE: My Perceptions By: Evan on 5/20/2001; 12:49 PM Dreams are a lot of fun because they allow us to be free from the restraints that society and the laws of physics place upon us in the real world. Of course on the other hand, most people aren't consciously aware of dreams being dreams. I've gotten really good at realizing it though, and its a lot of fun to manipulate the landscape of my mind. It can be shaped any way I want it too or just let it flow. Darn I wish I could remember more of my dreams, they are about as random as some of Richard's stories. Hmmm maybe I'll post one of them.
RE: My Perceptions By: Dorothy Marie on 5/20/2001; 1:40 PM I've realized when a dream is a dream, but I don't manipulate it. I just run around doing whatever I please because I know it's only a dream... but people still act so I do not know what they are about to do. However, I never get hurt unless I want to be hurt. And so it goes! But those are the most fun, the ones you realize.
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