Taken From If Only Suomi ISBN :
978-1916310773
Most
books are considered to be fiction or non-fiction or a combination,
written before or after the events therein. Those are either
historical, which can include a lot of speculation and guesswork;
simply made up, futuristic, speculative, prophecies or wishful
thinking. This book is all of that. It’s questionable when
exactly it was written. It is clearly written after events in the
author’s life, but both before and after the present day. in 2020,
on our calendars.
It
includes memories and dreams, prophecies and wishful thinking. In
fact, some sort of time travel. If only in the mind.
So
what is the difference between dreams and memories?
We
can have memories of dreams and dreams of memories.
We can
have dreams within dreams.
What is the difference between
reality and illusions or imagination? Dreams can seem very real and
what we normally call reality can often seem unreal.
Ancient
religions tell us that the world is nothing but an illusion, just at
twinkle in the eye of the Creator, a cutting from the fingernail of
Krishna, ‘Maya’.
“All
the world's a stage. And all the men and women merely players.”
wrote
William
Shakespeare.
As
children we sang
“Row,
row, row your boat,
Gently
down the stream,
Merrily
merrily, merrily, merrily,
Life
is but a dream.”
Modern-day
scientists
may tell us that the whole Universe and everything around us, even
our own bodies, is made of subatomic particles, too small to see with
the naked eye, and waves, that sometimes it may be a particle and
sometimes a wave, wave-particle duality and, according to the
Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, we can never say exactly when and
where a particle is. They say that it is mostly space and that it is
our senses and brains that put it all together so we can live in it.
In other words; an illusion.
Others even say that
technically it is all holographic! We are not actually here at
all!
And
some religious folk who believe in an all-powerful God
may
say that it was all
made not so long
ago, to look like it is much older, like a film set or a game of
Dungeons and Dragons.
Then there are dreams within dreams.
The
Arrival
1972
Al
found himself naked in a strange bed, in a strange room, alone
As
he rubbed his eyes, trying to escape from the nightmare and deal with
this new reality, he felt lost. He had no idea where he was or even
when he was. Yet somehow he felt sort of younger.
He
looked around the small room, seeking out his clothes and his phone.
Nowhere to be seen. Strangely enough he saw a pair of spectacles on
the bedside table. They reminded him of the heavy glass dark-rimmed
ones he used to wear. He put them on. He could see through them
clearly!
He
spotted an open wardrobe and grabbed himself a clean pair of jeans
and shirt, underwear and socks. It fitted well. He’d lost a lot
of weight. Several stone in fact. Probably all that climbing he
thought, but no, wait a minute, that was just a dream.
He
left the room and quickly found a toilet where he emptied his now
bursting bladder and then his bowels. That made him feel better and
sort of brought him more back to reality. Then he looked in the
mirror over a sink. He saw himself and was shocked! His hair was
long and dark again as was his beard. His face was thinner and he
looked, well he looked like a 21 year-old again, not the 78-year-old
man he had been. Surely another dream.
Al
wondered how he could wake himself up again and where he would find
himself. His last memory, although vague and unreal in itself, was
of 2028 in Leeds. What had he been trying to do. He had been with
the wheelchair-bound Daniel, a man in his 80’s and his elderly but
beautiful wife, Rachel or was it Rebecca? Something about Daniel
wanting to be healed. Something about a car crash. Something about
a new life for the couple, before they died, Daniel had said.
Al
left the bathroom, feeling very unsure and shaky about what was
happening and went down the stairs towards the music and voices he
could hear. It sounded like Pink Floyd.
As
he entered the kitchen dining room he saw three people, two young men
and a pretty young woman with long red hair.
