Discord Dream Diary Entry #333: "Farfalla of Fate"

Janus — 9/25/2015 5:37 PM
I fall asleep, a brief nap

[5:38 PM]
I dream I am in a foggy, fancifal room, like something out of an early 20th century old boy's club; sitting in an ornate chair

[5:38 PM]
Surrounded by men with glowing eyes, and in suits of, varying colors; all with wide brimmed hats that covered their faces

[5:39 PM]
All smoking what appear to be the finest cigars money could hope to buy

[5:39 PM]
They were all sitting in ornate chairs as well, they had seemingly been having a lively discussion before I had appeared in that seat

[5:39 PM]
Now they were all staring at me, still huffing and puffing all the while

[5:40 PM]
Harsh jazz reverbed throughout the violet-lit room

[5:40 PM]
An old, Depression era style radio sat on a coffee table in front of us

[5:40 PM]
Connected to nothing

[5:41 PM]
It suddenly turned on

[5:42 PM]
An old timey radio voice says something about "The Zone"

[5:42 PM]
A place between real and fiction, truth and lie, you get it

[5:43 PM]
Where dreams and hopes and anxieties and fears and villains and heroes live

[5:43 PM]
How we're not meant to meet them though

[5:44 PM]
They're there as warnings, or inspiration, motivation, lessons

Janus — 9/25/2015 5:45 PM
More real than real in some way. To meet them, to merge the worlds, is to bring them down

[5:45 PM]
Can't escape from reality if you want to be

[5:49 PM]
That's what it's all about, after all. That's what this war's about and between. You've got two choices. Usurp the pain, destroy even this desert of the real we still inhabit and march straight into Nothingness. Or fight on behalf of and become enslaved to the tyrannical light of time and space and body, of Something.

[5:51 PM]
"Of course, you can always give this coin toss called life and time a couple of goes. Maybe in a couple hundred or thousands of millions of goes, you'll be able to find something other than total annihilation or eternal servitude. That lovely particular little spiral of events we here at Interzone like to cheekily call the Stein-"

[5:51 PM]
And then the radio cut off

[5:51 PM]
And I woke up

[5:52 PM]
Nothing new really, honestly

[5:52 PM]
Just a strange, different perspective

Janus — 9/25/2015 5:56 PM
Nothing I haven't thought of before but just applied on a cosmological scale. Is the choice necessarily only between Zalgo and Gnon? Or is there a way to embrace the real while overcoming it's negative aspects. Death, time, entropy, the end, that stuff.

[5:58 PM]
"The Nothing's victory is guaranteed either way. Doesn't that seem wrong? It's just a matter of whether you let its cultists win now, or the natural processes of the universe have it win trillions of years from now."

[5:58 PM]
"Surely reality can't be doomed to be subsumed by unreality, by nothing, no matter what?"

[5:59 PM]
Those words still echo through my mind


Gwalchaved — 9/25/2015 6:07 PM
https://youtu.be/ReATFaedbQE
YouTube
Steiner
Phantasm - Farfalla of Fate - English Subbed

[6:07 PM]
Farfalla of Fate is a hyperstitional song

[6:07 PM]
It's from 2009 but clearly talking about us

FRAU KOUJIRO — 9/25/2015 6:07 PM
big if true