Today, I took a little time to reflect on who I am as a person. This thought was driven by something that my priest likes to say at church: we are all sinners, but we are called to be saints. I started thinking to myself about how everyone is, indeed a sinner... but also, so much more. As Shakespeare once said, "All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts." I play many parts in my life... a daughter, sister, friend, best friend, student, stranger, black belt, teacher, enemy, confidant.... and so many more.
Everyone you see has some small impact on your life. Even if it's tiny. Have you ever walked around your local grocery store and caught yourself subconsciously judging a person? Like not even on anything big... just you'll notice something about what they're wearing or how they are walking. Then, even if you don't want to remember them... you do. Did you know that the human brain is incapable of creating an entirely new, unique face? It has to take features from what it has already seen before. Meaning every person you have seen... you still have memory of. In dreams, the same rule applies. Any person in your dream you have seen before... you've seen at least a piece of in real life. So that stranger you saw in your sleep? Yes, they actually exist. Or at least a certain feature of them does.. I've had a dream where a person has looked a lot like my best friend but with different hair, body and voice. It's so odd, how the brain works... it's the same reason that it can't think of a new color. The brain can only understand what it has seen before- it can't create something new entirely. So... if the brain can't create something new, why does no one have the same dream? You may be asking yourself. Well, just because the mind can't create, say, a new color or a new face, it doesn't mean the mind can't take the billions of things it sees and create a landscape based off of that, or a new person based off of features it has already seen. Does that clear things up? Well... I've managed to successfully twist my blog post around again! I started talking about who I am, and ended out talking about dreams. What's the weirdest dream you've ever had? Let me know in the comments. Maddie
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