Saturday 3 March 2012

Jig or stir

'It's true there really is something about interposing oddity in a pleasant environment. An element of discomfort felt only from the corner of ones eye; an ice cube in a steam bath, a pinprick in the course of a relaxing massage, a scent of death in a rose garden or an item strangely out of place in ones own bedroom. Is it the jarring of ones own security that causes the mind to subconsciously make the executive decision to block it out as though one never saw it? Now this is of cause the natural way the mind works filtering out the unneeded noises of people talking in a crowd, all the details one sees when walking down the street and so forth. This of cause is all healthy and one doesn't need to notice it so it is only received as the hum of conversation and blur of scenery quickly forgotten unless something jumps out and takes the senses by surprise e.g. a person screaming or even a strange conversation that grabs ones attention, and all the other things that cater to the senses by making themselves more then mere scenery. Now take a person with blue hair pushing a pram with a smashed television within, it's quite probable that the mind would say "this is interesting I've not seen anything like this for a while" and the result being you glance at the university student making their protest about capitalism. Now if they were in a ring with a crow of of onlookers that would trigger the response of expecting them to put on a show so you may even stop to watch them for a bit. But not to sidetrack. Some people's line of work or interest -investigators for example- train their minds to be open; to not disregard or block such details, hence being able to remember a button laying beside a dead body whereas most people would only notice the shocking sight of a dead body and most likely their mind has made the memory 'clouded or blurry' as most would put it and are unable to remember it properly at all. But in most cases one isn't confronted by things they're unable to ignore such as dead bodies so they go through each day oblivious to such things. Sometimes one will get the 'sense' or 'feeling' about something which is vaguely accredited to the notorious 'six sense' (which won't be discussed at this time) where this is most often the mind subconsciously pulling out certain "erased memories" such as the flower pot beside the front door facing another direction, the strange odour and the the kitchen door shut which it never is, singly such details that the mind simply disregards yet had put together when...' The Moose put picked up has glass of water and downed it in one gulp. 'I wonder' I said 'does the brain remember everything? Because there are like you were saying there are certain things that are unimportant at the time but later become important and are able to be remembered' the Moose nodded 'not to mention hypnosis is able to jig memories' I nodded 'is jig the right word?' the Moose nodded 'yes' I looked at him sceptically 'are you sure you know everything?' he nodded solemnly 'not at all'. I sipped my tea 'I think quite honestly stir would really have been a better word'.

3 comments:

  1. this is reality. your discrepancies for the word jig shape the end of the piece well.

    you should get your mum to email me, i think she has my email. it'd be nice to talk to her again.

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