Evolution

Coming of Age

Written in response to: "Center your story around a character who can’t tell the difference between their dreams and reality." as part of It Could Just Be the Wind… with The Book Belle.

I don’t know. Maybe if I get in the shower with my clothes on I’ll know, unless it’s lucid. The EEG can’t tell me either, because if I’m in delta, it’s unreliable and if I’m in beta, I won’t know if it’s real or if I’m in delta. Unless I’m at a different vibration or color range or I’m still asleep, but, for the sake of simplicity, I’m going to say I’m awake, but take it take it with a grain of pepper; think that’s the expression.

It’s not a Buddhist question, it’s a schizophrenic question: Am I awake. Which world is real and in which world am I awake and in which world am I awake? Seems simple, but it isn’t, just ask a physicist. Oy vay. See everything’s made of energy which is why energy equals mass times the speed of light squared, which is 90 quadrillion square meters per second squared. So, thoughts are a vibration, but which vibration, what frequency? Does it relate to the chakras or the meridians or different organs. Where do our organs go when we sleep? Ask a neurologist.

Know when you think of something and release it, it manifests but sometimes it doesn’t, but it’s Rhonda Byrne. So, if thoughts manifest and as Olzenberger says, “Thoughts are Things”. Then dreams are things. We can visit each other in our dreams if we give each other permission beforehand, but does that mean either of our dreams are a reality? And if they are reality, what is awake or which one is real? You can ask me, but who can answer? Are you a figure of my imagination or am I a figure of yours? You can answer or I can. Remember Red Hot Chili Peppers, “I am you are me”, I’m out of medications.

I’m on the cusp of sleep and awake. “The Twilight Zone” or was it “Alfred Hitchcock Present” or was it the same show? You’re too young to remember. “Don’t pray for rain. Pray rain.” Where’s the line drawn between psychotic and normal? What if someone’s on the cusp? What if I’m insane with a mental disorder not in the DSM; forgot what number the APA is up to. Remember the joke? “ A man is standing outside the psyche ward and he has a flat and it lifts the car with the jack and takes the nuts out and while he’s taking the flat off his car, the nuts roll down the hill and falls into the gutter and the man swears and asks himself ‘what the hell do I do now?’ And a man from inside the psyche ward says, ‘Take one bolt off of each of the other three tires and use them to put on the donut. ‘. And the man with the car does this and it works and he asks the man in the hospital, “If you know this, why are you in the looney bin?” And the man says, “I’m crazy, I’m not stupid”. Everything’s relative. If the insurance company doesn’t cover the meds, then it doesn’t matter what I have. Humans are the cancer of the world, while bugs are the erythrocytes. Without bugs, the Earth would be gone in a few days. Without humans, the Earth would continue without any problem.

There would still be diseases, but there’d be no doctors, just evolution. I’m not saying we should kill the idiots; I’m saying let’s remove the warning labels and let natural selection take its course.

But what about the disabled? With natural selection, after five generations, there won’t be any disabled, unless someone obtains an injury, then smart people will help them and if they don’t get better, we can always euthanize them. Natural selection at its finest.

But it’s not fair, I hear you scream. They’re people too. Remember Quinn’s story about the mouse, the cat, and the lion? Wait, maybe that’s why your real world is a dream, because a kind, loving God, wouldn’t do that, or would they? Is God a King, is God a Man; Dog is God spelled backwards. Is someone high on LSD dreaming or seeing reality. Are you reading my story or writing it down from your thoughts? Am I, a schizophrenic, not in touch with reality or am I, one of the few, that can see reality? There are animals that can see beyond the color spectrum of humans. Dogs can hear sounds we can’t. So, how does that change your perspective of reality or does it not change your perspective? Remember, you’re the one writing this. Are I drunk? Is you stoned? It makes sense if we’re all composed of energy. An old commercial said, “energy can neither be created nor destroyed, only enjoyed”. Look down at your shoes right now: Are there shoelaces in them? If there are, you’re not in the looney bin yet and can still escape and hide before the Haboobs take over this planet. The Earth was destroyed by a flood and may be burnt by fire, but no one’s expecting a haboob, except in Arizona. You understand. Are you wearing a bra with an underwire? Then you’re not in the psyche ward yet. Can you use electronic devices like your cell phone? Can you wear a belt? Is some moron waking you up at 3 am to take your blood pressure again? Where were you last night? Are you high? Can you now see reality, and if so, which one? Forget the juxtaposition: it’s time to choose: “the red pill or the blue pill “. There’s no such thing as viagra for women. But maybe you’re a man, but what about in your past life on a different planet? You have amnesia, but transmutation now and then. The person with the straight jacket is coming. Should you take off your shoes, bra, keys, or let them do it for you? Death isn’t final, it’s just a trip to another dimension. Man with jacket is Scottie: Beat “me up, Scottie”.

Posted Oct 17, 2025
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