Dragon Entry 1: Clouds
The other day, I had this realization that suddenly just made more sense to me.
Every morning, it’s part of my usual routine to walk my dog and feel the cold breeze of the silent neighborhood, the early birds chirping, the rustling of trees while I look around doing my weird little habit of finding random patterns, especially in the sky.
That morning was just perfect. There were lots of cloud formations, and I thought it might rain. But what caught my attention was that I saw a wolf, a feather, and this huge dragon.
As I was gazing at them (while my dog was busy sniffing around trying to find a spot to pee), an airplane flew by, right across the dragon cloud.
And then it suddenly clicked me. The passengers inside that plane, looking at those clouds from a completely different angle, probably wouldn’t see a dragon at all. And that got me thinking... How much of what we perceive is just based on where we are? Like, literally?
It instantly reminded me of Einstein’s theory of relativity and Schrodinger’s cat. But it wasn’t just that, it felt like a download of physics and quantum concepts I am familiar with hit me all at the same time. As if I was connecting dots and suddenly it made more sense... how we interact with this 3D world, and how we’re all kind of trapped inside our own point of view... our own little simulation.
By the way, my dog finally decided to pee at this point, and while watching him, I couldn’t help but wonder how he sees the world too. Like wait... does he think I’m a god? Or a servant? It does makes sense either way... But do dogs even really grasp the notion of a parent-child dynamic the way we do? Hmm... Okay, okay, I’m going off-topic, Ugh my Oc brain cannot. lmao. So going back....
From my point of view, I saw a dragon. From theirs? It could be something completely different, or maybe nothing at all. So, it’s not about whether the dragon is really there or not there. It’s about my perspective that makes the dragon real, at least for me.
Perhaps that airplane might've flown from another region too, possibly even a different time zone. So not only are we in different spaces, we're also, in a way, in different times, even if it’s just a few minutes or hours apart.
That led me down to this truth, that space and time are really just illusions. That what we call reality is shaped only by perception. What’s “real” to me in one place and moment could be totally different for someone else, even if we’re technically looking at the same thing.
The dragon exists only for me, but not for them, not because the clouds changed, but because of my vantage point, and I gave birth to a meaning and make its existence real.
It’s kind of crazy to think about it. Not just that scientific thought, but the fact that I was literally just walking my dog, watching the clouds and my surrounding and then all because of a dragon appeared in the sky, for me, or only for me, I'm questioning the nature of reality. Ha? And I was like… what are the odds that a random passerby, somewhere else under the same sky, might be thinking the exact same thing in that exact same moment?
Whew. Now that’s fckn wild.