“Quoth
the raven, `Nevermore.'”
Angry Birds*
Book, book,
book, guess who's writing his book, that's Langdon! Also spoke with
my friend CJ. He may be coming over this weekend and consulting me on
said book. Also he reminded me the newest Pokemon games will be
coming out. I will probably acquire one. Yeah me writing my book that
is the collection of all my skills from writing all these short
stories may be delayed by collecting and battling adorable
creatures... Been playing Pokemon off and on since I was a young
enough to compare to hobbit and even shorter so what's to stop me
now? Came out when I was five if I recall.
Anyway onto the
flash fiction!
The Meaning
of Learning it Was All Dream
When a story
ends with “It was all just a dream” it often forgets to mention
the most important part. What happens when the person realizes this?
The after effects on them. They don't cover this. I woke up from a
very long coma recently. A coma after a car accident, that when I was
in my coma-dream, I thought I survived. Thirty years of my “life”
instantly revealed to be a lie.
Thirty years
that started with a war that my brain made up. A war where I became a
solider. A war where I started out a hero. Then I abused my power
along with other soldiers. We took advantage of other people. We did
whatever we pleased to them.
I didn't go mad
from later regret and trauma, spending the rest of my life repenting,
only living free because I turned in some traitors I later worked
with to gain even more by taking advantage of my own country and the
one I was attacking. All those years giving accounts of the horrors
of war to the nation weren't real. The horrors weren't real and the
war wasn't real.
And originally
the scenario I constructed was that other soldiers convinced me to
start taking advantage of those people and do all those horrible
things to them. But no. When I woke up and learned it was all a
dream, I learned that my brain chose to make all those scenarios
exist. The real world didn't make all those horrors exist. My
subconscious did. I wasn't dragged into a war, I made the war. I
would have preferred to have stayed in my coma as the man repenting
for his crimes than waking up knowing that it was a dream all along
and that I made them exist.
This terrible
realization did give me a second chance. Lucky circumstances shortly
after me waking up made me run across a great deal of money and
power. So lucky you wouldn't believe them. So just like in the war in
my dream I have the power to take advantage of people again.
This time it
can't all be a dream. I know I can't reset. Or maybe I'm within a
dream within a dream. Does that mean I can do it all again? Or should
do it all again whether or not waking up can get rid of all my sins.
I wonder if my
soul is the same in the real world.
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