Are You Sure?

Have you ever had the feeling that the whole world is an illusion? That anytime, you may wake out of this ‘dream’ known as life and face a much better reality? Or everybody else, as they seem to have some abilities you do not posses, knows every damn thing about you; but they just don’t show it off because they want you to feel normal?

No, I’m not talking about human psychology here. I am just trying to check if I am as normal as you are. And I bet, at some point of time, you too had this urge. I remember reading somewhere that everyone, at least once, thinks of committing suicide. May be those who take these little mind games seriously are the creators of the films like ‘Matrix’ and ‘Inception’. And talking of these films, an idea just crossed my mind. A formula to give a hit and widely discussed movie is to take one of such little fantasies everyone has and give it some rules and regulations. You think this is a virtual world and the reality lies somewhere else? They threw in some rules for moving back and forth through these worlds, some rules to be obeyed in each world and came up with ‘Matrix’. You think there’s magic somewhere in the world? Yes, you got it. They regulated and standardized the use of magic and created ‘Harry Potter’. So, the next time any such little question bothers you, drop a letter to Warner Brothers Ltd and make big bucks!

Anyway, back to the topic. Sometimes, I wonder that how he (or she) can remember what I cannot? The logical part of my mind tells me the reasons. It tells me that every brain registers different things about the same event. It tells me that there must be a few things that you can remember, but he (or she) can’t. But somewhere in the back of my mind, doubt survives. Mathematical genius, musical sense and electronic circuitry expertise amazes me in the same manner. I think of those as aliens, who can solve Rubik’s cube. Thinking of this on macro level, you may have noticed that every Indian, by comparing to foreigners, tries to find out that is he living a normal average life or not. (Though, thanks to the population blast, the average value of everything in the world is shifting towards its value in India.)

So, the question is, “Do you feel the same way?”. You may have different specific questions. But I guess, if I am normal, the general feeling should be common in all of us.

P.S. – Asking such a question is useless, though. Because, if I am normal, the answer will be ‘yes’. And If I am what I sometimes fear, they you will answer ‘yes’ to make me feel normal! J