Dreaming Awake / The Really Unreal

In the face of a life of uncertainty
We all of us must take our leaps of faith

Everyone of us must do this, eventually

     We all must plunge headfirst. . .

     Into the labyrinth's of our mind's
We all of us must do this
We all of us must assume things
We all of us must warp time
     Into memories
     Into feelings
     Into identities 
To battle the cold uncertainties  

     Of objectively being... something

And our inabilities to know for certain

     ... anything

So we remember ourselves

So we remember each other

In bits and in pieces

In starts and in stops

We remember our past

    Like a dream. . .

Like a dream
Never starts at it's beginning
Like the living mind

Never remembers it's birthing

So how sure are you of your memories?
How sure are you of yourself in your dreams?
 Is this, right here and right now... the logic of living?

Or are all of us just pieces to the logic of dreams?

And would you even want to know...      if you really could?

      does it even really matter?

      one way or the other. . . 

Author's Note

Reviews

[Chris Shaw]

How sure am I of memories? In the main, fairly sure. Maybe slightly distorted. Perhaps the good I am more inclined to see through rose tinted glasses and perhaps the bad at times can be both worse than I remembered it and not quite as awful. Dreams though, well they are weird. I'm not sure I get what dreaming awake is? I find sometimes when dreaming while asleep, when I wake up I can laugh and think I would never have taken that course of action in real life. Your words are thought provoking.

[Davidgeo]

It's just a philosophical exercise. But there isa little truth to it none the less. Some things we just cannot be certain of, and that can be extrapolated in very strange ways when we think of individual consciousness and the realities of the physical world that surrounds us. Good old Rene Descartes puts it in a far more coherent way than I ever could; I totally stole this idea from him (and the movie inception). That b*****d was more eloquent than he gets credit for which he already does get credit for... just not enough; back in the day of the renaissance men when philosophy was no less of an art than the science modern day scholars pretend it to be complicated propositions like that were not so inaccessible.

[Chris Shaw]

Never studied philosophy. My 17 year old granddaughter is taking it at A level. She says the whole class struggle with it.

[Davidgeo]

It wouldn't be A level if they didn't. When I was in college I struggled mightily with as well with those subjects. Age and experience tend to make it a lot easier to approach on the whole.

[Chris Shaw]

Yes, that makes a good deal of sense. At 17 you've hardly lived.