picture: Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison from the series Gray Dawn
people are gifted because of ability to imagine things. I really think that these images of different things, circumstances and even feelings sometimes may be even more important than the real things themselves, not to mention the realm of creativity: a. huxley's and many many others case.
I catch myself trying to imagine my feelings in the situations I am going to experience. For instance, I imagine the moment of being informed about entering university: my very first emotions, questions coming to mind, etc. Even though I still do not know if I am going to be accepted or not; or another image, me having tried some kind of drugs. what images could come to mind? what emotions could overwhelm me? one more - me being with a person I think is very very special. there is a huge amount of these images in my mind.
that is weird, but very useful construct of imagination because I think it might help me in writing poetry, creating stories and photographing. however, at the same time I wonder if there is no risk in reducing the amount of feelings of that moment when everything is happening. because there is always a bigger or smaller gap between emotions of real and virtual moments and this gap may lead to dissapointment when virtual emotions happen to be more pleasant.
it is even more complicated with relationship. we actually communicate not with people but with our images of these people. so that is why I am so strange so often because I create too precise images of people I have a crush on. and these images are not the people I know. so it becomes complicated.
the most complicated things are those you cannot live without. the most complicated relationship, the most complicated imagination.
1 comment:
And thing is - our brain does not really have difference if to feel virtual emotion, or emotion in "that moment" - it is our knowledge of this that makes the difference. It would be easy to get trapped in virtual emotions (many people do), it is in many cases so much easier.
And about relationships - so true. The best relationships then might be those that do not get anywhere beyond just short imaginative fling, when you do not know so many things that do not fit to your ideal image of the person.
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