imagination maxwell thorne When I was younger, I always imagined my life to be an enormous dream that I was dreaming while I lay in a bed far off in another world. No matter how horrible I felt, I could take comfort in the fact that when I woke up, nothing from this dream world would hold any significance in my real life. As I get older, this possibility seems less and less likely. Could it be that I've been lying to myself the entire while, creating a shelter, or am I just accepting my dream as truth, in an elaborate effort to sleep in? I want to wake up. 010304 ... ----- running away with me 010918 ... Sonya Some are often happiest when they are free to imagine and walk beyond the harsh boundaries of reality and the real world. What we see and feel when we close our eyes or drift off into space for awhile could be the one thing that keeps us alive. I was asked once when I was 16 what my heaven would be like. At the time I imagined being able to ride around in outer space on an emerald green dragon affectionately named Boogie. My vision involved the possibilities of seeing other worlds and meeting other lifeforms (without the worries of being killed and/or experimented with.) Nowadays my imagination takes me to faraway realms where sorcery and nobility prevail. I'd take all of that over a crowded city bus anyday. A cottage in the woods...with a pond and a flower bed, or maybe a startling white castle with royal blue rooftops and an irridescent gate. Sometimes I imagine my stuffed animals coming to life and being able to speak to me. What would life be like if these cuddly little things that have often seen me in my many moods and even naked (in my room of course) could suddenly respond to me? Would they be mad at the times when I threw them at the wall in my anger? Would they try to calm me down if I was worried about a project coming up? Would they pout if I didn't share my candy stash with them? Imagine looking into a set of black beady eyes and being able to sense emotion... It's nearly 3:30 am. It's time I get to bed. Who knows where my imagination will take me? Perhaps to a crystalline waterfall... 020707 ... inspired by sonya i have a grey teddy named crackers i think i still have him haven't seen him in a while but he must be somewhere about as a girl in victoria, i used to leave crackers out for crackers to eat in the night he used to get hungry i swear he used to eat them i used to watch him eating at night he would pretend he wasn't interested but then as i would be falling asleep i would hear the crackers cracking and i would open my eyes to see cracker was eating crackers i used to watch him eat i swear he used to eat them i would watch him eating every night but i stopped feeding him one day and i'm not sure why i think i thought he died somehow i think i thought he became a stuffed animal 041106 ... mon uow blenkinsop_road 050328 ... hsg if it is a dream, lets just have fun with it, play_nicely_together, make d dream worth YL. 061130 ... nom influenced 061222 ... hsg staring at a strobe_light at 15 hertz... eyes closed, plastic so close to my face it almost/occasionally burns my nose. illuminating certain parts of my brain. lets call it the visual cortex just for the hell of it. easily inducible geometric patterns. in the age of electronic drugs.... the image is a nation to function and grow andesig nything you can. letsoul work togather our bestalents(a)round the world in a good way. spinning fractillian tunnels. pulsating intricate patterns. about a cent of electricity in cost. harmless. 0 side fx. about as dangerous as thinking. increased visual acutity. like having an autocad program in your head. 070531 ... hsg *acuity 070531 ... hsg "i have more imagination in one tentacle.." -squidward "that's good. now all you need is a box!" -patrick 070725 ... jane i have always been afraid to do acid, because my imagination is strong enough as it is. 070808 ... gja Acid is a poor substitute for imagination - my kids taught me that. 070808 ... amy adaptability i use the brain to think straight about whatever and then.. WHAM. and then it's like ????priorities????? 130601 what's it to you? who go blather from