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Question about death vs. dreams

January 7, 2006December 21, 2023 ~ johnbrandall ~ Leave a comment

Why is it that, when you're about to die, you have a dream-like experience? And when you are dreaming, and about to die, you wake up?

Differences

December 31, 2005December 21, 2023 ~ johnbrandall ~ Leave a comment

What are differences but hollow perceptions?Am I different, am I weird?I don't think so, but maybe others do.And why, I want to know!Because I'm reticent and like odd things?And who says my things are odd? I like them.All my life, people scorn me for playing on differences.But I didn't and I don't. So why is … Continue reading Differences

Birthday

December 31, 2005December 21, 2023 ~ johnbrandall ~ Leave a comment

Today celebrates the day of my birthseventeen years ago I came into this worldwhen I was young time seemed to go so slow. Einstein said that when people move fastertime ticks slower and slower such thatif one moved fast enough time would stop. So I figure that I must be going pretty slowbecause my life … Continue reading Birthday

What You Were Before You Were This

September 29, 2005December 21, 2023 ~ johnbrandall ~ Leave a comment

by John Randall and Ray Wisdom Two twenty-something men sit at a long wooden table in the main room of a one-bedroom apartment. There is a big bong on the table and each of them has a highball in front of him. The window is open. It is breezy and warm, the breeze comes into … Continue reading What You Were Before You Were This

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