Someone once said there are only two kinds of people: those who want different reality and those who create it. In that theory I am in between Jacques Derrida and his great deconstruction and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy which says that everything we see depends on what's in our heads.
This issue can be easily explained: Derrida has been my master since my second grade at the University (so it's been a while) and gave me enough theory to understand what I want to do and how my reality should look like, while CBT crossed my path in the perfect moment giving me the answer to the second important question: how to do that.
Yes, you're correct- the only way to create your own magical reality is to deconstruct the one you have. And the only instrument to achieve it is your own head. That's why making yourself a CBT session right now is an amazing thing to do even if you're brain is completely healthy. Because the way you perceive your reality is in your head.
Now you are about to tell me it's a cliche. And in many ways, you'd be right. So for not being accused of being a full time cliche gambler I am going to explain the issue deeper by using examples of created realities based on what you have. So if you want your reality to be different, let me give you some examples of magical realities to start with or even copy some of them into your head. Some of them are completely imaginary and are there to help us create our own in our heads. This sort of creation will not cause your detachment with the world, quite the opposite, it should connect you with it. But your perception of it will be much better and will attract more positive things into your life. At least that's what Frank told me.
To create your own magical reality, start with space. The space around you, the place you live in and the surroundings. Then add to it all the things you get from it: images, sounds and smells. What do you want them to remind you of? How do you want it to make you feel like?
After that introduction I want to talk about the first example of a magical reality to explain why and how does it focus on space. An absolutely genius project I came across accidentally at Tate Modern, by Ilya Utkin and Alexander Brodsky, two amazing architects placing buildings in our imagination.
You don't have to read the description to notice that the project itselves are excessively difficult or simply impossible to realize. Unlike the nowadays industrial arts conception, the solutions provided by the pair are complicated and gather together elements seemingly not meant for each other. It's the kind of reality we might be inventing as children- purely operating on a resulting image and missing the practical side of the project.
My favourite one, A Hill with a Hole, seems even sarcastic. Although charming on the image illustrates an exploitation of a mother nature: a natural hill is not only built-up but also has a bridge function, even placing a bridge in that location makes absolutely no sense. I like staring at A Hill with a Hole thinking it is a tricky permission for fantasies: saying us that as humans we already deconstruct the world we live in, so why wouldn't we deconstruct it in our minds for our own personal needs.
The world created by Ilya Utkin and Alexander Brodsky can even look scary to us. But it's this kind of fear you feel when you receive new impulses from your surroundings. A friend of mine who used to be immersely involved in hypnosis was convinced that we can use images in our heads to recall some of the impulses which make us feel good, and therefore deconstruct our reality by the way we perceive it. This is how one single situation can become more enjoyable by bringing more positive associations.
Even if it can come across as something new and terrifying wouldn't you like to live in the world where everything is possible? Of course no one would like to live in a world which is totally unknown and upside down, such as Salvador Dali's world. (If you've just thought you would like to live in Salvador Dali's world, then you're or overly adventurous or you're a freak. Or both.) We want to live in the reality surrounding us but we want it to make us feel different. Like somebody blowing soap bubbles on our way back home. We all want magic.
No comments:
Post a Comment