Sleep, Dreams and Whatnot

After being knocked out for 2 hours (sleeping) and getting high on caffeine (1 cup of coffee), I’ve had the urge to write this. Sometimes waking up from “small" naps are worse than a fucking hangover. You have no idea where you are, when you are, or why you are. And it takes a lil bit of time to get acquainted with the reality that we reside in. 

They say dreams are our innermost desire. Didn’t know my innermost desire was to get tortured by manmade horrors beyond my comprehension. Heck, I could make movies out of these and get rich (One could only dream. Ha! Get it? Dream! …. okay then). One is getting butchered in a human experimentation camp by a time machine and the other one is getting ripped apart atom by atom and being reassembled at another dimension (if we are aware of the no-cloning theorem and other scientific mumbo jumbos, we can arrive at the conclusion that we are fucked as at the other side, only a hunk of meat resembling that to a human is assembled, but we don’t do science here). These are the occasional cool ones.

Dreams are non-linear, and most of the time incomprehensible (just like my posts) we feel like years have passed, but it has been only minutes. Just like tv shows, it has a main storyline, side storyline, flashbacks, dreams within dreams, it's freakin wild out there. So why is there a screensaver while we sleep? What is its purpose other than terrorizing, upsetting, or uplifting us? There are many answers coming to our aid, emotional processing, developing problem solving skills, and so on. Also, simulation of threats. Yeah, waking up in school without pants is a real threat (I shit you not). But it doesn’t tell us how to deal with it, other than taking cover or running for our lives. Scientists are baffled at this phenomenon, so what solution can an undergrad like me give.

Isn’t it funny how sometimes we react to smaller (or non-existent) threats just as we would do with bigger ones? Flight or fight response kicking in while watching a horror movie is something that I dread. There are still some primitive instincts that remain as residuals in humanity. Things that render useless now were crucial back in the very beginning. Humans are indeed fascinating creatures, evolving steadily over decades to become what we are now. The stage of evolution, developing self awareness and reasoning, which no other animal was capable of.

But what if humanity wasn’t supposed to turn out this way (I think it most likely was not) what if it were all a mistake, stay tuned for another post of brainrot.

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