Self vs. Self
I don't sleep.
I dream, but I don't sleep.
Yet I live in a constant reality.
I drink my coffee, I go to work, I arrive home, I eat, I relax, I catch up on some paperwork and then finally.... I lay down.
But I don't sleep, reality continues, yet I dream.
But when I dream, i awaken, although i haven't slept.
i drink my coffee, i go to work, i arrive home, i eat, i relax, i catch up on some paperwork and then finally.... i lay down.
i don't sleep, reality continues, yet i dream.
But when i dream, I awaken, although I haven't slept.
I don't know whether my bed(s) even gets used or not, but I'm sure i'll think about it again later so no need for ME to worry.
So I lay and i awaken, not the next day but in the night.
But i'm sure it's the day but I know better, or do I know worse?
Is it 2 cities, 2 countries, or even 2 realities we live in?
No. One city, one ME.
There's an axis to ME, and that means there's a Y and an X.
Y do things differently in the day than X do at night.
Today I met myself, and it killed ME.
Comments
When is a dream not a dream?
Perhaps our only reality is alas only a dream.
We wake up in the morning and put on a mask just to get through the day.
If only dreams could come true.
That Last Sentence...
...seems pretty ominous to me, though I don't know if I'm reading it right. The two personae (lower-case i and capital-I) have decided that they don't need the overall context that keeps them together as parts of the same life. It's not that either of them has superiority now (though I guess that could change without "ME" keeping them in some sort of coordination) but that they can operate on their own or even in competition as long as they acknowledge the other's existence.
Not quite Dr Jekyll and Ms Hyde (at least I'd hope that neither of them is ME's "evil side"), but still awfully dangerous, and not very equipped for the real world.
My take, anyway. I suppose someone else might see this as liberating.
Eric
A duality in black and white...
...with trenchcoats, stylised fedoras, long protruding conical faces and shiny round black bombs.
And remember...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifLqzLEB3E0
Spy vs Spy
Veronica's reference is to Antonio Prohias' comic, Spy vs Spy, from Mad Magazine. I'm not sure how far out of the U.S. it traveled.
Eric