Sunday, May 9, 2010
Monday, May 3, 2010
Prologue
Brains are strange. They can comfort you, or they can eat you alive. They can make things seem like the slightest detail or they can make it seem like you should be terrified. They can come up with an answer or they can make you just plain confused.
Life is strange. It can be going great one second and the next can make you trip. It can be lonely; it can be frightening; it can be wondeful; and it can be depressing. But what is the most strange is the way humans think.
Say you sit on a bench downtown the whole day. Your brain would analyse every person that walks by you. It would make up a story, for every person, based on your previous experiences. Your brain makes up that story depending on your mood, your recent experiences and what you are doing right at that moment.
But if it's a life and death situation, that whole system just shuts down. Emotions, senses and common sense, completely gone.
A young girl is on her bike, she doesn't look both ways before crossing the road and a taxi is speeding towards her. The taxi hits her straight on and her brain shuts down. She doesn't feel anything and she doesn't know how to move anymore. She doesn't think or feel any emotions; she is in pure shock. She falls to the ground unconscious. The taxi continues speeding down the road without stopping. She wakes up in a room still not completely sure what happened and dazed about her memories and life. Her brains system never recovers. Her thoughts and memories are forever lost. Her family loses her that evening and never speaks to her again.
Life is strange. It can be going great one second and the next can make you trip. It can be lonely; it can be frightening; it can be wondeful; and it can be depressing. But what is the most strange is the way humans think.
Say you sit on a bench downtown the whole day. Your brain would analyse every person that walks by you. It would make up a story, for every person, based on your previous experiences. Your brain makes up that story depending on your mood, your recent experiences and what you are doing right at that moment.
But if it's a life and death situation, that whole system just shuts down. Emotions, senses and common sense, completely gone.
A young girl is on her bike, she doesn't look both ways before crossing the road and a taxi is speeding towards her. The taxi hits her straight on and her brain shuts down. She doesn't feel anything and she doesn't know how to move anymore. She doesn't think or feel any emotions; she is in pure shock. She falls to the ground unconscious. The taxi continues speeding down the road without stopping. She wakes up in a room still not completely sure what happened and dazed about her memories and life. Her brains system never recovers. Her thoughts and memories are forever lost. Her family loses her that evening and never speaks to her again.
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