Time as a reality check
Jul. 8th, 2004 04:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
squirmeliaLately, there have been occasions when I have looked at my watch and the numbers have been squiggles. As an almost perpetual watch-wearer (currently feeling like I have accidentally shaved off a limb), I've pressed the buttons and prodded the screen frantically demanding the time back, and only sometimes has it returned. I know this behaviour is not unusual for watches - I once grew fond of a watch that would tell me that it was the 0th day of the month, particularly when I had been drinking.
It was when I remembered that looking at a watch can be used as a form of reality check (popular among lucid dreamers), that I realized that lately a lot of activities that could be construed as reality checks have been failing. Light switches sometimes only cause a flicker, the taps on the bath won't stop the water flowing no matter how hard I turn them, and chairs are often lacking even a vague resemblance to stability. Whether I'm dreaming or whether my world has become increasingly dysfunctional and is wallowing in inconsistency, I still want a boat car, like in Waking Life (and my local cinema even acknowledged that Before Sunset is going to be showing there soon, which is cool).
It was when I remembered that looking at a watch can be used as a form of reality check (popular among lucid dreamers), that I realized that lately a lot of activities that could be construed as reality checks have been failing. Light switches sometimes only cause a flicker, the taps on the bath won't stop the water flowing no matter how hard I turn them, and chairs are often lacking even a vague resemblance to stability. Whether I'm dreaming or whether my world has become increasingly dysfunctional and is wallowing in inconsistency, I still want a boat car, like in Waking Life (and my local cinema even acknowledged that Before Sunset is going to be showing there soon, which is cool).
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Date: 2004-07-08 08:47 am (UTC)And...if you mean "Before Sunrise" that is indeed a wonderful film.
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Date: 2004-07-08 08:54 am (UTC)I always find it worrying when I check the time on about three different clocks and they all seem to agree, but I still don't believe them.
>And...if you mean "Before Sunrise" that is indeed a wonderful film.
I mean the sequel, which I'm hoping will be just as good!
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Date: 2004-07-08 10:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-08 10:21 am (UTC)