D.J. Coffman – Sequential Artist, Thinker

Did you ever have one of those waking thoughts that seemed brilliant and you figured out the entire universe or some missing piece of something, and then in a fleeting moment, it’s gone. POOF! Or you think later on, what a ridiculous idea you had that your sleepy brain was telling you was going to change the world.

This happened to me this morning around 5:30am as I got up to take a piss. I knew the alarm was going to go off at 6am, and thought, well, I can at least lay down for 30 minutes and TRY to get some sleep. I went out like a light, FAST… but in that half hour time, I dreamed an entire day’s events. I mean, scenes playing out in my head that if I told you about, it would play out like a movie you were watching that was much clearly longer than a half hour time, but somehow they were playing out in my brain at some super fast speed.  The alarm indeed wakes me from the dream and for some reason, my brain immediately realized what had just happened, and for some crazy reason, my sleep brain told me, THIS was the secret to all of time/space, or even time travel somehow. I laid there trying to figure out how that had anything to do with anything regarding time travel, and settled on the thought that I’m not that brilliant, but had Einstein had this same moment, he would have been surfing time somehow.

The weird thought is… this time is passing right now, a new day, that is clearly REAL, playing out in actual seconds that are the same length of seconds that anyone on this planet can count out…. but is our brain capable of compressing time and literally playing out in scenes in our mind, full days, possibly years in the blink of an eye, the count of second? A virtual reality you could slip into somehow?

Or what if these long moments that are passing, aren’t really passing at all, maybe we’re all in some long dream that’s only taking an actual half hour nap, but we’re dreaming through our entire life time. Pretty deep, but when mixed with thoughts about “people’s lives flash before their eyes.” — it felt like something.

Probably nothing though. Back to counting…. tick, tick, tick…