The Dark One
Auror
I daresay this has been discussed before...
I suspect there is some quirk of our human brains that is always looking for meaning in patterns, numbers, coincidence, synchronicity etc which we sometimes imbue with greater significance than they warrant in a black and white science based world. And yet, we cling to these little moments because they make us feel as though the Universal Mind has picked us out for a private message. We feel we have received a glimpse into some profound truth that at most times eludes our comprehension - but every now and then some apparently trivial occurrence makes us prick up our ears and think Yes! There is a fundamental truth out there that no-one has quite twigged to...but I just saw a glimpse, so I know it's real.
This kind of thinking leads (probably) to schizophrenia if you take it too seriously, but I for one, scientific to the end, never quite give up on the possibility that I have received tantalising glimpses of that fundamental truth, and I wonder to what extent those glimpses motivate my writing, and the writing of others? The closest I've written to a fantasy book (kinda surrealist sci-fi) wallowed in my personal myth system and included numerous examples of the odd little incidents I'm talking about, but I also include these in my (much more successful) crime fiction..
I could give examples but...do you get what I'm talking about?
Do strange glimpses of hidden truths inspire your writing?
I suspect there is some quirk of our human brains that is always looking for meaning in patterns, numbers, coincidence, synchronicity etc which we sometimes imbue with greater significance than they warrant in a black and white science based world. And yet, we cling to these little moments because they make us feel as though the Universal Mind has picked us out for a private message. We feel we have received a glimpse into some profound truth that at most times eludes our comprehension - but every now and then some apparently trivial occurrence makes us prick up our ears and think Yes! There is a fundamental truth out there that no-one has quite twigged to...but I just saw a glimpse, so I know it's real.
This kind of thinking leads (probably) to schizophrenia if you take it too seriously, but I for one, scientific to the end, never quite give up on the possibility that I have received tantalising glimpses of that fundamental truth, and I wonder to what extent those glimpses motivate my writing, and the writing of others? The closest I've written to a fantasy book (kinda surrealist sci-fi) wallowed in my personal myth system and included numerous examples of the odd little incidents I'm talking about, but I also include these in my (much more successful) crime fiction..
I could give examples but...do you get what I'm talking about?
Do strange glimpses of hidden truths inspire your writing?