JAN'S FRESH STICK-IN-THE-I
NEWS
©
2001:
JAN COX
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December
24, 2001.
In
his thoughts, a man lives a thousand lives, but in actuality, he lives
only one:
the
one an observer would see him live;
but
just this visible one is not the ordained life of ordinary men;
they
are destined to live a thousand unseen lives,
all
but one of them, imaginary and without meaning,
save
for the insensible significance passively granted it by
unawares,
day time dreamers.
At
night, with eyes shut tight -- asleep and dreaming,
you
& the brain know that the scenes you see yourself in are
dreams,
but
in day tide, with eyes open wide, the brain commonly ignores that
the
scenes of you that it shows itself, are dreams, and have no substance.
Lacking
the presence of some overriding physical stimulus,
thought,
in the daylight hours, customarily fails to make real time,
exact
distinctions between things it remembers has occurred & imagines could
occur, and the life you are actually living at the ever-present times of
these
ceaseless day time dreams.
The
brain, being the tricky devil it is,
(what
with it being both the magician and
the audience),
is
subject to yet an additional layer of self deception,
(or
at least a routine pretending to be),
in
that if the above is noted to a normal man he will readily agree that such
some
times goes on in his mind,
but
lacking its pathological over indulgence, he shrugs away its significance;
man’s
common collective attitude: “Everybody day dreams -- so what?!
It
doesn’t mean anything as long as you don’t let them interfere with your
real
life” -
the
overlooked legerdemain herein being that,
from
their private, internal perspective,
an
ordinary person’s “real life” IS
in large part made up of day time dreams.
Even
this more extreme fact, (when pointed out), a few people recognize,
but
even they & their brain,
(it
being subject to more or less standard construction dictates),
will
instantly forget it a split second after having just acknowledged it.
That
operation within the brain which produces what men call thought,
and
day dreams is observably incapable of both day dreaming about you
and
being simultaneously aware that it is doing so;
if
your brain is showing & watching imaginary scenes of you,
and
you suddenly make yourself aware of this -- the scenes cease:
this
is an undeniable fact, readily apparent to anyone who wants to look.
In
bed at night asleep, if a dream your brain is producing becomes intolerable,
it
will remind itself that it is just a dream,
and
will cause itself to awaken for a moment to stop its running,
but
no such thing occurs in the upright, daylight hours;
if
the day dreams the brain creates in a man’s mind become unbearable –
he
goes crazy (as his peers pronounce it);
if
the brain of an ordinary man starts to show day dreams so disturbing to
him that
they
begin to detrimentally interfere with his actual living of his life,
it
will not remind itself that they are just imaginary,
and
awaken itself and thus the man from the nightmarish situation.
This
of course is an anomalous occurrence;
most
people are not, (by their community's judgment), crazy,
but
their life, from their private, internal perspective of themselves,
consists
just as much of dreams as does that of one judged insane,
the
only difference being the degree to which
their
individual dreams contrast with physical reality.
And
here appears another slippery juncture in the neural magician/audience’s
conspiratorial slight of hand,
for
if you tell a man that to a substantial extent he lives in a world of dreams,
he
and his brain will immediately reject the idea,
reaching
out perhaps to touch a nearby object -- or himself, or
even you –
while
verbally noting the he is not
at that moment in some dream world,
but
is clearly aware-of and awake-to the reality around him;
completely
aware of the object he touched,
and
totally awake to the existence of both you and himself,
so
it is inaccurate to say that men live
in a dream realm –
men
do not live physically in a dream world -- detached
from reality --
or
they could not survive,
they
live amidst dreams only mentally,
and
the mere fact that this does not normally interfere with their survival
tells
an air conditioned person the actual value of the dreams --
zero;
the
only importance of these, off-the-meter-brain-produced-dreams
is
whatever that same, I’ve-got-nothing-better-to-do-brain says they
have,
(the
magician finishes the trick – looks smugly to the audience [himself],
and
asks: “How’d I do” -- with, [need it be noted?], a predictable response).
No,
humans do not LIVE
in a world of dreams,
but
they THINK in
one, and thought being (in its off duty hours)
the
extraordinarily lax operation that it is,
there
is no normal self-check function in place;
when
the brain’s thinking is not engaged in survival essential matters,
to
which it automatically gives its complete & intense attention,
it
does not keep close watch on what it allows thought to do;
it
simply does not require that its thinking be directly tied to physical
reality as with important matters, but rather lets thoughts run wild without
any particular real time distinctions being made between scenes of its
host human in situations purely fantastic and what is possible --
and
is actually going on in the host’s physically led life.
When
a man gets up and takes his brain out of bed in the morning –
it
forgets to stop dreaming,
but
its dreams have no effect on the life the man leads that day –
they
only impact themselves;
it
is dreams dreaming of themselves
which
ordinary men take as them being themselves --
internally.
A
man will point to his body and say:
“Although
this is my body -- this is not the real
me;
the
real me is in here” -- and he
points to his head --
to
the day time dream scenes of his body, his speech, his charismatic presence
which
his brain relentlessly provides to him for his viewing entertainment.
To be awake is simply to recognize entertainment when you see it –
and not confuse it for anything else......................................like
for you.
J