Thoughts on Imagined Realities

The most disorientating sensation is when an image of your present which you conjured in the past arrives unannounced into the mind. Somewhere in the brain there is a bank of alternative realities which were once our imagined, potential realities. For example, before one starts school for the first time they imagine what the buildings, people and classes are like. This is their imagined reality. Upon arrival at school this subjective reality is replace by an objective reality, but it does not completely disappear. It is stored away in the mind and someday, years down the line, a catalyst will cause this imagined reality to re-emerge, causing the individual to question what is real and what is not.
This concept of imagined realities is something that came into my head a few hours ago, as I recalled a conversation I had with my high school catering teacher, some five years ago. We discussed what it is like to cook at university, and I envisaged a serene cottage where I would bake cakes with my flatmates. Alas! this thought came into my head as I finished cooking some curry out of a jar in my cheap accommodation which slightly resembles a gulag.

Allie