Max_B
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One night, shortly after finishing Celia Green's book, (the implications of which I found unsettling)... I had a disturbing experience consisting of intense and very vivid hypnagogic imagery as I was going to sleep.
I was one tiny minnow, in a group of Minnow's who lived in a pond. I was rebellious, and questioning of this reality, and had been able to break away from the group, and see things as they really were, I become aware of myself as a tiny fish in an alien pond, strange looking plants were dripping liquid into the pond, and making ripples on the surface of the water above me.
I swam up to the surface and popped my head above the pond surface to see an alien landscape, and an enormous bright red rhino type creature making its way around the pond. The scene so terrified me, I swam back to the group. Vowing that I would rather return and reimmerse myself in the groups fictional reality, than live in the awful knowledge that I was stuck in this pond until I died, or until some terrifying alien predator found and ate me.
I realised the group of Minnow's to which I returned, lived in the pond, and hid in the shade cast by the cover of alien plants, and that we had created a the totally fictional world which I live in today, to deal with the horror of our actual reality, which we we could not face because of the fear and hopelessness of our situation.
I found it a disturbing and upsetting experience, obviously related to my reading of Celia Green's book. It suggested one might rationally choose to stay in ignorance, indeed one might regret opening a door into the true nature of reality, as it might show you things you wished you had never seen.
I was one tiny minnow, in a group of Minnow's who lived in a pond. I was rebellious, and questioning of this reality, and had been able to break away from the group, and see things as they really were, I become aware of myself as a tiny fish in an alien pond, strange looking plants were dripping liquid into the pond, and making ripples on the surface of the water above me.
I swam up to the surface and popped my head above the pond surface to see an alien landscape, and an enormous bright red rhino type creature making its way around the pond. The scene so terrified me, I swam back to the group. Vowing that I would rather return and reimmerse myself in the groups fictional reality, than live in the awful knowledge that I was stuck in this pond until I died, or until some terrifying alien predator found and ate me.
I realised the group of Minnow's to which I returned, lived in the pond, and hid in the shade cast by the cover of alien plants, and that we had created a the totally fictional world which I live in today, to deal with the horror of our actual reality, which we we could not face because of the fear and hopelessness of our situation.
I found it a disturbing and upsetting experience, obviously related to my reading of Celia Green's book. It suggested one might rationally choose to stay in ignorance, indeed one might regret opening a door into the true nature of reality, as it might show you things you wished you had never seen.