drmstream[writing]

Do you have things that you think you remem­ber, that you should remem­ber, but that you don’t really know?

When you open your­self to these images, they hang imma­te­r­ial and alluring.

Sci­ence has taught us that when we imag­ine remem­ber or dream of doing some­thing, or see­ing a thing or hear­ing a sound, mir­ror neu­rons are fir­ing in our brain just as they do when we have the actual expe­ri­ence.  We live it again.  Or, more pre­cisely, the expe­ri­ence lives us again.

When I glance quickly at this photo, I can feel the stick in my hand, the sen­sa­tion of chunk­ing the blade into the sand in an men­tal metronome, embrace the inten­sity and focus.  The more I study the photo the more dis­so­ci­ated I feel:  the phys­i­cal expe­ri­ence is eerie and present.

This is a phys­i­cal mys­tery.  I’ve just stum­bled across a potent neural bind­ing that has lay fal­low for decades.  When the photo acti­vates it, I’m at sea just the way Swann was when he caught the scent of the madeleine.

This is why you should write.

Metaphor does not reside in words, but in ideas.  The ideas are man­i­fest in our phys­i­cal expe­ri­ence.  The con­nec­tions are res­i­dent in our mind.  Cre­ativ­ity is a drug…a drug that opens and releases the con­nec­tions, that make us intensely alive in every moment.  And what else is life worth?