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Dreams and the mind
I may have talked about this topic umpteen times. It's pretty amazing how quick the mind could be at coming up stories, perhaps a tad quicker than when in the conscious state. Every night, without fail, and seldom repetitive, the mind could come up with different and unimaginable stories to entertain the sleeping body. Sometimes scary, sometimes touching, sometimes action-packed, but many times, meaningless... If I were to ask the conscious mind to come up with stories, it'd probably take days to come up with a decent one. When someone says, "I dreamt this up". It's probably true... Perhaps tapping into the resource of the sub-conscious mind is one great way to seek solutions to many problems and further extend the boundaries of our imagination.

The mind can be a really powerful entertainment organ. In the later stages of your life, when you have to spend a whole lot of time on the sick bed, when you start to lose your senses, your mind is perhaps the only source of entertainment. In a more extreme case, your mind starts to hallucinate to kill your boredom as well as bring your attention away from the persistent pain caused by chronic illnesses of old age. Hallucination is perhaps the body's way to numb the pains associated with old age.

Subconsciousness is the sanctuary the body tries to seek when in pain. It's a dimension that is void of pain and boredom. When one gets feverish, the first reaction from the body is to go to bed. When one suffers from extreme pain, the first thing the person does is to shut his eyes, hoping to enter this very dimension of void. When one's body suffers from severe chronic illnesses, one tend to seek this subconscious state more, at times, for extended periods such as the case of a coma. It's amazing how during this state of subconsciousness, such misery is forgotten.

Speaking of old age, I wonder what will I become then? How will I die? Will it be a peaceful painless process such as a natural death of old age, or after a period of a persistent pain from chronic illnesses or accidents? Will there be a period where I'll lose my sight, my mobility, or my audible senses? For some reasons, I'm suddenly quite afraid of old age. Not sure if I could face the torture of persistent pain... Imagine a headache that lasts 24/7 365 days a year. That would be pretty bad. For the dignity and quality of life, euthanasia perhaps should be advocated.