February 12, 2004
Whenever I get some time to myself for myself at night, I turn off all
the lights in the bedroom, and I make sure that as little light as
possible is shining through the windows in the room.
And then I begin to do something that I haven’t been able to do all day…
think.
I let my mind wander around the dark room, not that Im seeing anything. Then I come upon something that is of interest to me.
Tonight, its lycanthropy.
I begin to wonder if I can actually mentally shift into, say, a wolf.
Hmmm, I wonder, since there’s nothing in here that I can see, then
what’s stopping me from trying?
So then I sit up in the bed, put my hands and my bent arms out in front
of me, and try to imagine my hands turning into wolf paws.
And as I let the thought flow into gradual, yet natural reaction, and
actually _feel_ my fingers retract until (of course) they’re cramped, I
suddenly hit upon what could be called the whole meaning of imagination:
Imagination is putting from 1 to all 5 of your senses in the dark, and putting your mind in the light at the same time.
Whenever your senses are in action (and reaction) towards your
surroundings, when you see, you smell, you taste, you hear, you touch
whatever is around you, it is hard to put your mind into action for
yourself when you want it or need it most.
But when you, at least temporarily, put at least one of your 5 senses
on hold, you are able to think bigger, faster, more outside of the box.
Why do you think when someone is being asked a tough question, like in
a spelling or geography bee, the contestant has to close his eyes and
think hard for an answer, whether it be right or wrong.
I think people are afraid of the dark because they are so used to their
senses that whenever they even _think_, it is a disturbing nightmare
for themselves and their minds. They are not able to think outside of
the box because they haven’t given themselves or haven’t been given the
chance to be alone and in the dark.
So, in that case, I wish that most people, or at least those who don’t
have an imagination and, yet _desire_ such, could at least shut
themselves in the dark fro a while, where they can’t see or hear or
touch anything. It would give them the capacity to think outside of the
box, for themselves.
Man, I wish I could be in the dark by myself more!
