imaginary characters will outlive everyone here.

If you missed the South Park movie Imaginationland, it is the most blatant in your face statement in primary colors regarding imaginary characters. It is totally overdone and really sucks balls (about 234 times) but almost all our cultural imaginary characters are rendered there.

My point of view is colored by having been a hypnotist most of my adult life and seeing the results of applied imagination. Most of us think a hypnotised person is seeing and hearing things that aren;t there. Yes and no. The experience is still a second person expereince in that the hypnotised person sees themselves imagining and not really vividly hallucinating. Just like when you about to fall asleep and you imagine that you are about to slip and fall and your whole body jerks in an attempt to prevent falling. You are aware that you were not falling in reality but that it only seemed like it.

When considering imaginary characters we need to realize that people are acting as if these characters are real and as a result they make real effects in our world. So when it is said that imaginary characters are real, they truely are real ibouncing back and forth in between the virtual and actual world like virtual particles that enter our universe and either annihilate, combine or dissappear from where they came from.

For some it is an epiphany or great revelation to learn that imaginary characters are real in this way. For Shamen or tribal Indians it is understood more directly than for a classicly western trained person. For fiction writers it is inately understood.

Perhaps you too know that in this sense the imaginary is real. But maybe you do not know the full extent of this peculiar reality.
It is enormous. It is brain 'explodingly huge'.

Yet you can live your entire life and never be bothered by not fully knowing that the imaginary character and all its contructs is real.


So whenever you hear that overused cliche "No Bill, the reality is...", you should smile inside and remember that reality is merely what is not disproven today. The reality was at one time that the Earth was flat and so on and so forth.

So "in reality" , reality is an agreed upon, flexible and metamorphising imaginary construct that only serves us for a short time until the next new truth or imagined truth changes that reality into the next newer version of reality. (smile) Silly but true.

It was sometime between the age of 4 and 5 that I knew this to be true. It was when I realized that my life sometimes felt like a movie and a movie sometimes felt like life. This notion grew more sophisticated over time but this was the initial understanding of the psychological tricks that are being played upon people by using or misusing imagination. Merely knowing this does not make one entirely immune to its power to distort or falsly incite people's perception, but it is a damn good vaccine.




For the highly religious among us, this kind of understanding is what the high priests guard or even openly admit. The power of the physics of imagination is undeterred by knowing who is behind the curtain, whether it is the wizard or a prophet.   For the athiests among us, forgive me for repeating what you already know.

Your generous and humble servant,
Don H.