Thursday, January 31, 2013

Reading response Einstein’s dream (14 April 1905)


The entry of the 14th of April 1905 from Einstein’s Dreams talks about life as a cycle.
It describes repetitively how every single moment in everyone’s life is to be repeated in a never-ending circle. Only dreams hint this true to a few that are unhappy. The description represents a particular type of person following their narrative lives and the way they unfold to then repeat again.  Unique moments of life looping.

“Suppose time is a circle, vending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly”

This reading falls into a repetitive narrative that yet has an end that leads you into a thoughtful and solitary feeling of uncertainty. The reading leads me into a routinely feeling about life, moments, relativity. It can easily fall into tediousness, yet it cherishes the beauty of moments even when they might happen again.

When I have a Déjà vu I always feel like maybe I actually have lived that moment twice. In this life there is conversations we have again and again, and maybe I actually said the exact same words or did the same actions. Regardless of the life cycles and the dreams and reality, water flows without knowing it’ll come to the same river because like Heraclitus said "We both step and do not step in the same rivers. We are and are not."

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