Tag: perception

• Memory Wormhole (An Opening)

  

  The falsities I signify as memories lie in stacked planes, pierced by a needle, threaded taut at the most peculiar points; each day is an involuntary setting off of previously lived remembrances, bounded in touchstones I’ve symbolically mythologized in my psyche. One past moment bounds into another: full submersion in a wormhole of past occurring […]

  Dan Metzger

  January 3, 2018

  Essay, Rudimentary Philosophy

  brain function, creative writing, dreams, flashback, knowledge, language, memories, memory, mind, myth, perception, philosophy, psyche, psychology, reality, string theory, thoughts, thread, truth, wormhole, writing

• Measurable Time

  

  INT – A MODEST DWELLING – LATE NIGHT The slim frame of ALEC passes a doorway where a man with grey in his beard sits facing the other direction. BARRY stirs in his chair and calls the figure he hears rustling in the other room to come speak with him. BARRY speaks, inaudibly, to the […]

  Dan Metzger

  December 19, 2015

  Fiction, Rudimentary Philosophy, Scene

  creative writing, debate, family, father, Fiction, perception, scene, son, time

• Overcrowded Consciousness

  

  You lay down just past dusk, your back on a forest floor. You are surrounded by tall trees. Eyes are open, skyward. You listen. Before long, you become aware of a warm, static humming originating from the recess of your mind. Concentrating on the hum, you realize a mash-up of songs you have memorized, rendered […]

  Dan Metzger

  August 18, 2015

  Essay, Rudimentary Philosophy

  awareness, clarity, consciousness, creative writing, eyes, memory, mind, music, nature, perception, philosophy, sight, soul, stars, thoughts, trees