Picture this. Eventually this will exist, mark my words. Some sort of device that will be able to, roughly at first but eventually more precisely, tap electrically, perhaps wirelessly, into your brain and record your physical experience of the world- record and interpret the smells, touches, tastes, sights, and sounds, and correctly interpret them, to a point you could sit in some sort of room that could recreate the expereince- the sights, smells, sounds. Or else, even simpler actually, would be to simply reverse and feed those recorded signals back into your brain exactly as recorded, so you can lay motionless (or even sleeping) and experience an...experience, all over again- it would be like watching a home movie but instead, going back and EXPERIENCING that moment again, as if actually there. Now THAT is a way to relive your memories.

I'll start off by saying this post has no real discernible point.

And I realize its been almost a month since my last post. I suck.


I may have mentioned this before to a degree, but I got to thinking the other day, that its interesting, the transience and maleability of personal relationships. For example there are two people that I dated who are now married, clearly not to me but to someone else. (Which is fine). That's weird in a way because, the only thing separating then from now is this abstract idea called time, and it has changed everything. I may have been the number one person in the life of someone I haven't spoken to in months now, maybe whom I barely know. Take an old roommate, a childhood friend, or even a dead relative such as parent, sibling, cousin, or grandparent. You may have known everything about them at one time, been completely personally intimate with that person, and now you haven't spoken to them in years. In the case of someone passed, you get to a point where its hard to believe that at one time they really did exist, because it would be so hard to imagine them alive now.

In the same way I mentioned before about past memories of yourself being so different from your current self that it almost doesn't seem like you except for the fact that you alone have that collection of memories and know that you now is connected to you then. Such are the memories of past relationships to other people. There are other people that pass through our lives- work friends, someone we're dating (or their relatives), or friends of friends, whom now you may spend a great deal of time with and yet within a couple months maybe you will never see or speak to them again- or they will become an integral part of the rest of your life. Sometimes its hard to tell, but its interesting to imagine, about those people in your life now, who will become which later- at times you can feel the shift beginning, when you meet someone or a group of people and begin spending a lot of time with them to the point that they are your primary group of friends, and then something shifts and they begin drifting away, and your fluid social life flows into another person or group of people's lives.