Twilight Bug

Well like most of million readers worldwide I am also bitten by Twilight Series bug. First-time author, Stephanie Meyer's debut novel, Twilight, and the subsequent novels in the series, New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn follow the love story between a vampire, Edward Cullen and an ordinary human, Bella Swan. The series has celebrated wide critical and popular success and is currently being adapted into a nearly identical series of movies. What has caught my attention is the character portrayal of Edward Cullen, the 17 year old vampire…who has been 17 since 1918!!

Twilight appeals to me for various reasons, a. it feeds to my insatiable hunger of imagination, of fairy like tale, b. vampires and similar mythical creatures (warewolf et el) has always fascinated me. Being a strong romantic it appeals to my sensibility. Character of Edward, is exactly what I value in a Man. He is all about caring, perceptive, protective, indulgent, witty, passionate and responsible. (Hence mythical!)
But of course this is a complete fictional character and some might find him old schoolish and conservative. By no means, I am setting a standard but it is nice to be charmed by a gentleman with impeccable manners and personality.

Also, these series provides an escape from the real world. This fantasy world is much more pleasant than the real one at times. Where one runs with the speed of light and can read minds. So many times I wonder what exactly in it that appeals to me. After much deliberation I think it’s the idea that nothing is impossible, that love is stronger and can beat the supernaturals really. And furthermore, lets accept it.. who doesn’t like racy twisting plot?

Only thing which is really pathetic is its movie adaptation. Twilight movie could do good with better actors (ok vampires are suppose to be cold.. but wooden?~!) and Director. She really is a bad one! Anyway like I always say, movie cannot do justice to the book. Some things are better imagined than seen.

My Mystery of Dreams

These days I am very much stuck with the idea of dreaming and dream recall…not day dreaming as I am completely proficient and an expert in that area…it’s the mystery of night time dreaming that eludes me. Hence I have decided to do a bit more research and familiarize myself with the concept of dreams; what do they mean…or not mean.

It is a general belief that content of our dreams is related to our daily life experiences. If this is true, then why are they so bizarre? So irrational? Most of my dreams are always whirls and flashes of known and unknown faces. Vivid. Dark yet vibrant. They make me exhausted and disoriented for few seconds after I wake up. In those tiniest fraction of seconds I wish I was a sleeping beauty…(you see I envy her peaceful sleep when she will only come out of her slumber when she is kissed by a prince charming. Whereas me.. I have to wake up to constant ringing of door bell by my bizarre housemaid. Ugggg! I shudder in comparison!)

So after hours of mindlessly and yet actively searching about dreams, I stumbled upon these lines by an anonymous source, “Our brain is like a giant filing cabinet. Everything we see, hear, taste, smell and touch is remembered by our brain, and put into what we might call a “brain file.” When we read a book, watch a television show or video, listen to music, eat some ice cream or pet a soft rabbit, it is all recorded in our “files.” Our brain pays attention even when we don’t! We call those files our memories. Usually, we don’t even know all those things are in our head!”

This is indeed a great insight, but what really puzzled me is that surely NOT everything is registered or goes into the brain file.. what about theory of selective retention? Only that stuff goes into MY brain file which I want to file! And so I am thinking again… how exactly I know that some stuff is getting filed out of my daily experience? And if I filed it myself… then why cant I recall and comprehend my own dreams? Why do I wake up with a blur?

And even if I go by the views of the anonymous author, it says that our brain record things which don’t even pay attention to.. that we don’t know all those things are being recorded in our head. Now does that mean that my head got a head of its own? That my body is not tuned to my own head and my own head takes refuge in her own head? Damn it is getting complex and complicated!

I definitely need to uncover this mystery.