"All the we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream."
-Edgar Allen Poe
Anyone care to explain?
Sunday, January 25, 2009
What do you think of this?:
Posted by griffinrider at 1:18 PM
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
26 comments:
possibly that all the realiies we seem to percieve are really only our illusions and delusions about the world and that everything we see has been dilluted and shaped by our past experiences.
Maybe it means that we only see, hear, feel, ect. what we WANT to see, feel, hear, ect.
Or that all we accept is our dreams, and we don't realize the world around us cux we're blinded by our own dreams.
"Life is what happens when your dreams are coming true."
I love E.A.P.
He writes the poems no one would dare to even try to
wow. deep thoughts, everybody. i agree with dibsy that very often we only see what we want to see.
All the we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
We see what we want to see but can't necessarily control the turn of events like a dream. Or that our time on Earth is so brief it's hard to make a difference (remember it in the morning or have the dream again). And that the 'impossible' is not necessarily so impossible after all. Or that your life may seem so uneventful or so simple you always dream for a better, more active existence and fail to see that your life is someone elses dream. That what you may deem normal or simple is in fact someone elses deepest ambition to have.
Hmmm, thanks for the comment, I think I will be your 30th follower. How come you don't follow any blogs, just wondering.
Okay. I think what Mr. Poe is trying to express, is that life is really just a dream. What really matters is, what is left behind after we're dead, and gotten where we're going. The esence of life. Our true legacy. Also, that everything in life is not what it seems. There are certain things behind things. Eyes behind eyes, if that makes any sense at all.
My former boyfriend used to say, that "reality is really personal perception".
Well. Just some thoughts.
J
Poor you. It's fun but hard (mainly because of it's similarity with english =D).
yes sometimes we hear and see what we want to hear/ see and can't open our minds to the things we really might not want to hear/see (aka reality)
pretty much to me it seems people put up illusions to make things a dream, everything they wanted. everything we know, it seems like our nature to want to control. to they-in their minds-do. but once again, illusions shatter.
To Griffin Rider,
you said on my blog "quick question i've been wondering for a while- how long can a vampire last without drinking blood? i mean, is it like humans, who will die of starvation after a few weeks, or days, even? or is it different, because vampires are kind of un-dead? also, how does one turn into a vampire from a bite? it it that once a vampire bites you, you're a vampire? or is it that he has to drain all your blood? or that you both have to drink eachother's blood? there are so many versions in so many stories. according to you, which is true?"
this is how it goes. the length is different for every vampire. depends on how 'strong' you are. you see, every day we don't have blood, we loose energy. so if you miss, like, a week of drinking blood, ur gonna be really tired. weak vampires can only go about 2 weeks or so. but strong vamps can hold out for months. i've never tested it. i don't really want to learn what it feels like...
the other question, the bite thing. well, it's not really the bite. i mean, we bite people all the time to drink from them, but they don't turn into vamps. we have this sorta venom i guess. that when we bite to change someone, all we have to do it bite them and inject the venom.
one of my friends said "I'ts all in your head. for example: I hate work, but noone in my family knows it because when I have to go, I convince myself I like it." that could be what it means.
you guys are coming up with amazing explanations. do you think it's true, that all we see or seem is a dream within a dream? isn't it cool how one sentence of poetry can have an unlimited amount of explanations?
if we only see what we want to see, how can we ever be sure that what we are seeing is real, and not just an illusion we weave for ourselves, to make the world and everything in it fit into clearly-defined, limiting labels? or is that exactly what reality is?
Is reality reality or just a figure of imagination? And the real reality is hidden behind these illusions, waiting to be revealed. i guess i'll truly understand. but then again, that's not so bad.
i have nooooo idea how to explain, but for me personally i think it means,are we in a dream or are we just somthing in someone elses dream.
thats what it means to me.
i think it means that only you can see what you see, and no one can change it. people and past experiences can change your perception of good and bad, right and wrong, but no matter what, you see what you see.
I LOVE Edgar Allen Poe :D
(Btw, have you ever read any of his short stories? Like The Tell Tale Heart or Ligeia?)
I definitely agree with Cuppy, when she said that reality is only what we perceive and is shaped by past experiences. It makes you wonder if perhaps everything we think we've experienced our entire lives could be nothing more than a dream. Or maybe, we're all just heads in jars somewhere dreaming up our entire lives.
"I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand --
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep -- while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?"
^ That's also from Poe's poem, were I feel he's lamenting how we're unable to stop the passing of time no matter how hard we try. And as time passes we evetually loose our conciousness by dieing. Ans as we loose are memories as we grow older and die our own memories sometimes become no more than dreams to us.
yes, and i'm missing a few words in my last comment. i meant to say "i'll never truly know."
Yeah, so you study vamps, Griffinrider? tell me what you know. i can give you more information if you tell me how to control my instincts.
instinct control: you could use those funny tablet things that you can only have in desserts or they don't work. do you know what I'm talking about? i don't. I've never seen one, but one of my friends uses them.
oh, not what i meant. not blood instincs. i can already control that fine. i meant other vampiric instincs.
i think it means that all we see is what someone else wants us to see, because we are dreaming their dream for us, but hey nice page
interesting idea, notion. and thanks.
Okay GR, i need your help. i'm being accused of being this Bloody Kiss girl. i left my blog cuz all we do on there seems to be fighting. i couldn't take it so i left. i took myself off and had Bloody Kiss post it. but then some weird stuff starts happening. whenever someone clicks on my old comments, it goes to her profile. all my posts say posted by 'bloody kiss' not Jin. So my friends start saying that i'm Bloody Kiss, but i'm not. what do i do?
dibsy's pic is evil!
and jin, how come this kind of thing always seems to happen with you? bella and ally had your same email, you're the only one how was emailing snow, now this thing with bloody kiss. sorry, that's kinda suspicious. I won't rule out the possibility of someone going through an elaborate plot to do something like this, it could happen with us. but you must admit it's suspicious.
i dunno, jin. maybe you have multiple personalities. if you tell me anything specific i can do to help, i'll be glad to.
okay. these hackers got onto my e-mail. they started a blog account, e-mailed my friends on my e-mail. once i met up with one of them and they beat me up. then we found out that the names they went by were the names of these dead people. after that, they disappeared.
Then there was this girl (snow) who threatened to kill us. she said she was moving to our town. everyone accused me of being her cuz i was the only one with her e-mail. but then i gave her e-mail to adeen. i dunno if they talked or not. then she disappeared, too. i found out her real name is not Kimberly, it was April. and she really did move to our town. i'm gonna go visit her and anyone who wants proof she exists, come with me.
Now this. this girl shows up after i leave. read my above post for details on what's going on with her.
so yeah. that's whats up. strangely, i don't know how it happened myself. nira and i have a theory that blogger reset me, but we dunno.
it's being confuzzling.
Post a Comment