Sleepless thoughts.

 

Some thoughts I had as I failed to fall asleep last night:

The phenomena of human society isn’t exactly doomed or completely optimistic. The world we find ourselves in is one in which we are all slowly waking up to the reality of ourselves and our place in the universe. The feeling is disorienting and the more I think about this the more it makes sense. The feeling when you wake up is feeling disoriented and confused. Nobody has any real idea what’s actually going on and we are slowly coming to grips with the world, waking up so to speak. When is breakfast?

The other thought is maybe thinking of consciousness as a recursive mirror. Imagine shining a beam of light next to two mirrors parallel to each other and seeing the light beams bounce back and forth. Except the geometry in which the mirrors reflect back the light is arranged in such a way that is described by such dense mathematics. Some strange recursive hyperdimensional geometry perhaps. I am reminded of “I am a strange loop” by hoffstadder

The older you get the more people you lose. This brings grief but it also makes you more appreciative of the connections you have now. 

The most useful approach to a hopeless situation is to just try looking at it from a different perspective.