Recently, I was scrolling through YouTube, just looking at random videos, and I saw this video about the universe resembling the brain, right? And the question was posed, "Are we living in someone's mind?"
Here's the video.
No, I'm not gonna attempt to unlock the secrets of the universe or the human mind by proposing any theory that you may call wild using today's conventional wisdom, right? Though, I must point out that if someone does come to you with a wild theory, before you poo-poo based on the conventional wisdom of the day, remember, the practice of lobotomy on mentally ill patients was once a thing. Just saying.
Anyways, I'm not going to be proposing anything wild, right? But I am gonna confess that I did mull over this question for a bit. And what can I say? The power of suggestion. Got me thinking of all those Matrix reruns.
And it made me think: if I were living in someone else's mind, what impact am I having by the way that I live? And when I thought about that, I was like, dang! No joke.
This put a lot of stuff in perspective for me, or even more in perspective, I should say, in terms of the way I wanted to continue to move through the world and the impact that I wanted to have.
And so, friends, I invite you to join me in this exercise. Think about your life, your outlook, your perspective, your impact on the world around you. Try to do it objectively, and ask yourself where you would fall.
Would you be a neuron that has a positive impact on the brain? Do you tread lightly through life, conscientious about your impact, always trying to leave a positive mark on your environment and those you interact with? Are you a giver?
Or, alternatively, do you rage through the world like wildfire, consuming everything in your path, destroying, caring little for the way you affect others- thinking yourself superior while leaving a stench and stain in your wake? Are you a cancer?
If you were in someone's mind, would you be a dream that makes them smile and feel energized? Or are you draining their energy so that they go to bed and wake feeling exhausted?
Are you forgettable, like that dream that fades away from the moment you open your eyes? Or will you be a nightmare? The kind that makes a grown man or woman's heart thump, cause them to wake up, eyes dilated, searching the corners of the room, perspiring...? Food for thought, I guess.
Maybe you'd fall somewhere in the middle. But I'd believe realistically that there is a ways for all of us to go, a ways for us all to improve in our individual lives, if we're being objective and not looking at ourselves through lens of ego or mirrors conditioned to tell us the lie we want to hear, right?
And so, I can't debunk any theory about the brain or the universe when the experts in this field admit that there's infinitely more things that they don't know than the things they actually do. But on this Sunday, as I wake from a relatively calming dream, I am reminded of the idea of living in someone's mind or maybe someone living in mine, and that idea again gives cause to pause. But tell me, my friends, what do you think of all this?