I have a feeling this is gonna have a lot of parts by the time I am finished with this blog. There are certain major issues I have noticed about being a dreamer. For example it can often make day to day interaction with friends and loved ones interesting let along dealing with other people, like bosses, cops, the next door neighbor whatever.
I'm blessed with a lady in my life who can actually watch me as I stand there allegedly interacting with the world while thinking of some story idea or an image I want to capture. "You're out there again aren't you?" She'll ask, and I will totally cop to it.
Someone once asked me why I always work on such odd escapist stuff. "Why do you want to escape reality? I mean you live here." Which sadly is true.
It's kind of hard to point out to folks that reality sucks. Most people tend to spend their time engaged in a game of double think. Aware of all the things in our world that are horribly screwed up but rolling with it because it's so much easier that way. It creates a massive dose of mental friction in people, but somehow they bull through it.
Your average dreamer fully acknowledges that the world sucks. After all the way it sucks are plot points to their personal story. Then they engage the problems in a manner to keep themselves entertained. We may not be able to change things to make them suck less but our perception of them can be the root cause of some truly epic art and literature.
It took a mind capable of seeing the film strip of time to it's inevitable dystopia to write a novel like William Gibson's Neuromancer. Which if you read it and look at the news seems more and more prescient every day.
Or someone who is truly willing to look around and question everything to write Robert Heinlein's "Stranger in A Strange Land." A book that caused quite a few people to sit up and notice just how odd a lot of things we take for granted truly are.
It's how we deal with seeing how the world sucks, we escape by creating new worlds, or asking questions no one had the guts to ask. For a lot of people who are creative or dreamers the notion of ignoring the problem is in many cases far worse than the problem itself. And if you won't answer our direct questions perhaps you might notice the questions when it's in a book movie or song.
Live in the real world? Currently I have no choice, but if I should find a door to another world somewhere behind the old guitar gear in my closet I will be calling a few people, and we will be on our way.
All I have to ramble about today. If you have any questions ideas or helpful suggestions please let me know.
Going to make it a point to have a reference to something I thought was funny or cool in each of these so todays is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uwsbLDZ7RA
If you're a nerd and wanna good laugh.
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