Don’t you have days when the world feels like an illusion? When something is one thing but actually feels like something else?
When I was contemplating what to post today, this image wanted to be out there on the web today. It wanted to challenge you to consider if this is a picture of a real thing or is it a digital rendering of something masquerading as a real thing.
If you remember we spoke of this concept in the past. We spoke of how the brain sometimes creates things in our mind to make us forget about something else, or to protect the integrity of self or ego, or just purely to protect the integrity of the body.
The mind is the great creator of that which is around us, and it is amazing how many of us have an imagination problem. When we are children we have imaginary friends, which become unacceptable to have as adults. As children we dream of a knight in shining armour or a princess and we have the illusion that someday we shall meet that special someone and just like in the cartoons we live happy ever after, so we chase an illusion and break up with partners because they do not live up to the imagined person we hoped they were. We want our kid to turn out someone, but if they start developing a personality of their own and pursue their own dream, somehow our own dreams get shattered at the same time. We look in the mirror and we se a person that is most certainly not the person others see, so when we look at a photograph and it does not match our imagined self, we delete the selfie. We imagine ourselves as the know it all and be all, so when we are provided with the alternative, we find it difficult to accept that our own view point maybe was a bit off. Or indeed we imagine that there is a man in the curtain, and therefore scream until our parent washed the curtain and told us that the man was gone with the throwing out of the water from the tub.
So you see our brain makes up images all the time, makes up stories so that we feel better about the world around us, or it makes us scared out of our wits. So I ask you, how bad is your imagination problem? And of course, is your imagination causing you problems? Perhaps you have made peace with your imagination, and you use it for good? What is your imagination like? Friend or Foe?
Is my image a photograph of a hand painted card? Or is it a digitally created art piece? It is all in the eyes of the beholder, isn’t it?
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