Antinatalism and Depression LXIX: Doorways
Channel: Anekantavad
Date: 2012-09-02

What percentage of our cognitions and perceptions consist of pure subjectivity, and how will we ever be able to know?

"The realization crept on me, then sank home with a frightening rush. My eyes were closed, but I was still looking at the book. What I was seeing was smeary and monstrous, the distorted, fourth-dimensional counterpart of a book, yet unmistakable for all that.

And I was not the only one watching.

I snapped my eyes open, feeling the constriction of my heart. The sensation subsided a little, but not entirely. I was looking at the book, seeing the print and diagrams with my own eyes, perfectly normal everyday experience, and I was also seeing it from a different, lower angle and seeing it with other eyes. Seeing not a book but an alien thing, something of monstrous shape and ominous intent.

I raised my hands slowly to my face, catching an eerie vision of my living room turned into a horror house.

I screamed.

There were eyes peering up at me through splits in the flesh of my fingers. And even as I watched the flesh was dilating, retreating, as they pushed their mindless way up to the surface.

But that was not what made me scream. I had looked into my own face and seen a monster." - Stephen King, "I Am the Doorway"

"I Am The Doorway at Wiki" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_the_Doorway

Cover of "Night Shift" http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5iQtF0RS9ao/TaclAEJS6qI/AAAAAAAACKQ/i26pg0_ssvA/s1600/i%252Bam%252Bdoorway.gif