have you ever had that feeling when you wake up, knowing you had a dream, but not being able to remember it?
well, my last post touched about memory and how we remember. perhaps the contrast to this post is rather apt, when we see how easy it is to forget as well. when we get up in the morning, our mind flashes back to snapshots of dreams which we had the night before. sometimes we remember small events, sometimes we remember the people involved, sometimes we remember small details. but somehow or another, I at least, can't seem to string one entire coherent dream back together again, no matter how hard i try. anti-memory?
I guess that dreams are only a mere example. maybe sometimes forgetting is the better way after all. imagine if we were to collect all our dreams and store them away, allowing us to view and remember them later. what is it which we will see? shock, fear and contemplation or happiness, joy and laughter? maybe that's why we forget.
maybe that's why the human mind is just like that. sometimes, we don't even realise it when we get hurt by certain people or events. only later, when we pull the memory out of the corner of our mind, is it when we realise that something weeks, months or even years ago could have hurt us more badly than we ever could imagine. It's true, I testify to it. these are the memories subconsciously stored in our mind, forgotten. for that while at least.
memory is always such a dangerous thing. it's able to bring about so much emotion. it's able to hurt or to heal. it's able to cut deep, just like dreams. just like dreams.
& on another note, I've listened to this song 100 times in two days.
Chemicals React - Aly & AJYou make me feel out of my element
Like I'm walkin' on broken glass
Like my worlds spinnin' in slow motion
And you're movin' too fast
Were you right, was I wrong
Were you weak, was I strong, yeah
Both of us broken
Caught in a moment
We lived and we loved
And we hurt and we jumped, yeah
But the planets all aligned
When you looked into my eyes
And just like that
The chemicals react
The chemicals react
You make me feel out of my element
Like I'm drifting out to the sea
Like the tides pullin' me in deeper
Makin' it harder to breathe
We cannot deny, how we feel inside
We cannot deny
Were you right, was I wrong
Were you weak, was I strong, yeah
Both of us broken
Caught in a moment
We lived and we loved
And we hurt and we jumped, yeah
But the planets all aligned
When you looked into my eyes
And just like that
The chemicals react
The chemicals react
Kaleidoscope of colors
Turning hopes on fire, sun is burning
Shining down on both of us
Don’t let us lose it (don’t let us lose it...)
Were you right, was I wrong
Were you weak, was I strong, yeah
Both of us broken
Caught in a moment
We lived and we loved
And we hurt and we jumped, yeah
We lived
We loved
We hurt
We jumped
We're right
We're wrong
We're weak
We're strong
We lived to love
But the planets all aligned
When you looked into my eyes
And just like that
Watch the chemicals react
And just like that
The chemicals react
(The chemicals react)
