i am not talking about the truly great and how they dream with their eyes open and thus conquer the world. it is far from that context. i am telling of how we can create imaginary worlds where we can rest and escape from the hassles of our normal world. the serious disciplined may say that this is day dreaming , and i do agree with them.
after all what is wrong with day dreaming??
being a consummate sloth and an accomplished master in the art of laziness i do lot of day dreaming. but day dreaming attained a totally important significance when i happened upon dr. hannibal lecter. now any one acquainted with this magnificent creation of thomas harris will agree that this is one truly remarkable specimen. apart from his eccentric culinary tastes and his immense analytical capabilities the feature that most captivated me was his mnemonics.
mnemonics , according to definition is any set of tools or techniques that are used to facilitate in the increase of memory powers. now mr. lecter has taken that to wholly new levels. the book describes how being imprisoned in the baltimore asylum, mr. lecter kept himself occupied by his strain of mnemonics. he preserved his sanity and the shine of his cerebrum by immersing himself in a mnemonic castle where he preserved all his memories. being the consummate connoisseur all his passions and loves and knowledge he preserved in the rooms of his mental castle. all his favorite memories , all his favorite scents, favorite musics, books, people, everything he associated with items in that castle. when he had to recollect some details of clarice starling, he merely revisited the relevant room and gazed upon a symbolic painting and the details of it brought back the old memories , kinda like clicking a link in a webpage.
now isnt that absolutely remarkable? the catch is most of us do not have the cranial facilities of the fictional dr. hannibal lecter. so being a mere mortal i wondered how can i use this idea? so i hit upon the creation of my own virtual worlds where i cane scape when i am in the midst of the craziness that is daily life. i started imagining scenarios, situations, pleasures , horrors, (sometimes extremely kinky stuff too!!!) and this started occupying my mind, the mind of a basically introvert person. now these ideas slowly started stimulating my creativity. sometimes i would imagine myself to be the head of a highly militarized india and the means by which i would go about for global domination through military and diplomatic means. the entire plan would be made consulting a ttk world atlas!!! i would chart locations of force concentrations, locate bases, chart attack vectors and plot troop movements. by the time i am done my hapless atlas would be crisscrossed by a web of meaningless pencil marks and i will have to spend time rubbing them all off. god knows where that atlas is now!!!
then i started designing military bases with complete infrastructure details designed by me and modus operandi charted out. at school my friend renji and me were quite adept at it and even now that crazy bastard reminds me of those and we have a laugh.
i started designing institutions like schools, universities, hotels and ships. it was a lot of fun!!! all this meaningless crap defined my otherwise boring life. i loved to draw even though my drawings basically suck. still i drew for the pleasure of drawings, mostly with pencil.
my greatest designing work was a complete cruise liner i designed in my first year of engineering. it was a 15 storied super cruise liner. i designed all floors to the inch. i made templates of outer structure and filled each floor with necessary details.
the lifts matched, the stairs matched and there was even a two storied golf course beneath the sea level!!!! i also calculated the crew necessary to run it and emergency procedures, the complete works!!!! and the funny thing is after designing all the levels when i finally drew the entire ship acc to plan it sucked!!!! it was so ugly!!!!!!!!!!
i had a great laugh over that!!!!!
anyway nowadays i am more into gazillion dollar dreams, imagination of what all things i will do if i get a gazillion (close to infinity) amount of money the next day morning. u might think it is mundane, but i will regale with some of them. so stay in touch if u havent already applied to a cell near dr. hannibal lecter.
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