Hitting bottom is an inside job _ it's something that happens within our consciousness.
As I was fixing in the bathroom, I thought about how I used to tell my ex Anne that there was __o reality._ Light merely entered the eye and was translated into electrical signals which were translated into chemical signals translated into gestalts and translated into electrical signals again and so on. It was all a dream of a dream of a dream signifying a source which could be reality of which we experienced only distant modulated echoes of ripples.This used to really annoy her because she suspected it had something to do with my failure to get a job.
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As I was fixing in the bathroom, I thought about how I used to tell my ex Anne that there was __o reality._ Light merely entered the eye and was translated into electrical signals which were translated into chemical signals translated into gestalts and translated into electrical signals again and so on. It was all a dream of a dream of a dream signifying a source which could be reality of which we experienced only distant modulated echoes of ripples.This used to really annoy her because she suspected it had something to do with my failure to get a job.
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