My friend John (Gav’s dad) and I spend hours talking about this and that whilst we’re out walking. Anything, in fact – not just this and that. We talk about politics, religion, sex, marriage, shopping, gardening, DIY – and more surreal things that wouldn’t stand the reaction of others, not attuned to our range of discussion.
However, one disturbing discussion that we often drift into, perhaps more surreal than the others; is that we might in fact be just two old men, already gaga, lost our memories, pumped with drugs and sat outside a care facility – dreaming that ALL THIS, is JUST A DREAM. ‘This’ being the world around us.
Imagine if you took a powerful sleeping draught at some point early in 2016 and you have just woken to the news that your favourite celebrity was dead: http://www.legacy.com/news/galleries/celebrity-deaths/gallery/2016-celebrity-deaths/292092, that Britain had narrowly voted to leave Europe, that Boris Johnson was now foreign secretary, that David Cameron had stepped aside for Theresa May and that Donald Trump, would in January 2017 become leader of the free world, having just won the U.S. presidential election. WHAT!!!
First of all – leave Europe? How did that happen? http://www.richardcorbett.org.uk/long-list-leave-lies/ how will that turn out!
Then Donald Trump – really? The wall building, Mexican hating, misogynistic racist Donald Trump? http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-deport-immigrants-immediately-when-mexico-wall-a7415116.html how will that turn out!
I think I need to go back to my rocking chair, plug in to some David Bowie and go back to sleep.
I honestly believe we exist on multiple levels… You could well be sat on the porch dreaming.
There’s an interesting episode in series 3 of Black Mirror (on Netflix) that explores that theory to a degree.
Also, this pre-matrix book. https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Words_Made_Flesh.html?id=wqOTPQAACAAJ&redir_esc=y&hl=en