Bravo, Michelle. Everytime I read & re-read this part I start tearing up, it's tapping something deep inside me, something that synthesizes a big part of your argument in a way words can't.
"I still remember this as though it were yesterday. For some reason, I was on my back. The air was cool and rushing over my face. I was on the highway, the orange lamps rushing by as I travelled, on and on, getting closer with every moment, and yet never arriving. Because my mind didn’t know where I was going, I wasn’t able to take me there."
I this sort of spiritual/social level critique of "connectedness" is incredibly rare. Keep writing & opening our minds, dear friend.
This is stellar, Michelle. Lucid dreaming and astral projection has always fascinated me. Bashfully, I think of this quote from J.K. Rowling's final HP book: "'Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean it is not real.'" I have daydreamed so long and extensively the word daydream is insultingly inaccurate. I like the thought that everything we can see was once a thought or the object of someone else's thoughts. I think we undervalue the significance of dreaming to no end, with no goal in mind, just creatively idle.
Bravo, Michelle. Everytime I read & re-read this part I start tearing up, it's tapping something deep inside me, something that synthesizes a big part of your argument in a way words can't.
"I still remember this as though it were yesterday. For some reason, I was on my back. The air was cool and rushing over my face. I was on the highway, the orange lamps rushing by as I travelled, on and on, getting closer with every moment, and yet never arriving. Because my mind didn’t know where I was going, I wasn’t able to take me there."
I this sort of spiritual/social level critique of "connectedness" is incredibly rare. Keep writing & opening our minds, dear friend.
This is stellar, Michelle. Lucid dreaming and astral projection has always fascinated me. Bashfully, I think of this quote from J.K. Rowling's final HP book: "'Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean it is not real.'" I have daydreamed so long and extensively the word daydream is insultingly inaccurate. I like the thought that everything we can see was once a thought or the object of someone else's thoughts. I think we undervalue the significance of dreaming to no end, with no goal in mind, just creatively idle.
Lor, that's wild! That's my favorite line from all of the HP series, and I agree completely.
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Daydreaming is deeply undervalued. Benjamin wrote about it too, he felt boredom was revolutionary.