"When confronted by our worst nightmares, the choices are few; Fight or flight. We hope to find the strength to stand against our fears but sometimes, despite ourselves, we run. What if the nightmare gives chase? Where can we hide then?"
I'm an eternal dreamer, a fact to which many of the people who know me can testify. Over the past few weeks I was wondering what fascinates me so much about dreams? Was it just the escapist tendency buried deep down within me urging me to get away from the world everyone calls "real" or do i find inspiration from dreams? And after two weeks of careful introspection I am as close to finding the answer as I was two weeks ago. But all was not in vain. As i was pondering over this thought, I stumbled across the italicized dialogue from a TV series. A peculiar thought arose in my mind, that there's a third choice! Logically, it's our brain who distinguish a normal dream from a nightmare. So, if it's we who are creating nightmares then we can simply avoid confrontation with them by not creating them at all. But very soon i found out how we can subconsciously create nightmares from fairy tales.
It all began a couple of months back. It all seemed and still seems a fairy tale. Since then I've been living in a dream world, a perfect place, at least from my perspective. Then suddenly last Friday, a sudden realization stuck me. What if the world in which I'm living is not real? What if suddenly i woke up and dream ends? What if fairy tale has a singularity in its construct? An infinitesimal singularity that may become the villain of my nightmare. But then I'm still dreaming. And what are my choices if I realize that sooner or later this dream is going to end? So will that end, be a nightmare? And what will I do when I face that nightmare? Will I fight or flight?
And if I choose to go with third choice, then I enter a vicious circle. To avoid this nightmare, I'd to wake up now and waking up means facing nightmare. So is it inevitable? Do i need to fight the cause of nightmare to avoid it or do I simply wait and hope that singularity doesn't grow. In both cases I'm again left with two choices "Fight or Flight". Isn't it a paradox that by opting for third choice, I'm opting again for the "Fight or Flight"? Which brings me here, at the moment of inevitability to decide between Fight and Flight. Should I assume the singularity to be true and make a flight away from the nightmare, which was never there? Am i really so afraid to fail that I'm not going to give it a try? Or should I keep dreaming until it is impossible to hide from nightmare and I've to make inevitable choice between fight and flight. I'm not sure what option am I going to take or what did i achieve by jotting down this piece of gibberish. I only ended up in making my thought process more dichotomous which earlier was heading for flight. May be i should start blogging again!
Without Wax,
Dark Lord
I'm an eternal dreamer, a fact to which many of the people who know me can testify. Over the past few weeks I was wondering what fascinates me so much about dreams? Was it just the escapist tendency buried deep down within me urging me to get away from the world everyone calls "real" or do i find inspiration from dreams? And after two weeks of careful introspection I am as close to finding the answer as I was two weeks ago. But all was not in vain. As i was pondering over this thought, I stumbled across the italicized dialogue from a TV series. A peculiar thought arose in my mind, that there's a third choice! Logically, it's our brain who distinguish a normal dream from a nightmare. So, if it's we who are creating nightmares then we can simply avoid confrontation with them by not creating them at all. But very soon i found out how we can subconsciously create nightmares from fairy tales.
It all began a couple of months back. It all seemed and still seems a fairy tale. Since then I've been living in a dream world, a perfect place, at least from my perspective. Then suddenly last Friday, a sudden realization stuck me. What if the world in which I'm living is not real? What if suddenly i woke up and dream ends? What if fairy tale has a singularity in its construct? An infinitesimal singularity that may become the villain of my nightmare. But then I'm still dreaming. And what are my choices if I realize that sooner or later this dream is going to end? So will that end, be a nightmare? And what will I do when I face that nightmare? Will I fight or flight?
And if I choose to go with third choice, then I enter a vicious circle. To avoid this nightmare, I'd to wake up now and waking up means facing nightmare. So is it inevitable? Do i need to fight the cause of nightmare to avoid it or do I simply wait and hope that singularity doesn't grow. In both cases I'm again left with two choices "Fight or Flight". Isn't it a paradox that by opting for third choice, I'm opting again for the "Fight or Flight"? Which brings me here, at the moment of inevitability to decide between Fight and Flight. Should I assume the singularity to be true and make a flight away from the nightmare, which was never there? Am i really so afraid to fail that I'm not going to give it a try? Or should I keep dreaming until it is impossible to hide from nightmare and I've to make inevitable choice between fight and flight. I'm not sure what option am I going to take or what did i achieve by jotting down this piece of gibberish. I only ended up in making my thought process more dichotomous which earlier was heading for flight. May be i should start blogging again!
Without Wax,
Dark Lord
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beta... aaj kal blog likhne ka mann nahi karta? busy with something else? :)
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