Last night I found myself suspended between the dream world and reality.

In this dream state I was unable to see anything, but could weirdly hear entire songs by artists like Flume & Travis Scott, as if I was wearing a pair of headphones.

Don’t ask me why these were the artists my mind surfaced when I consciously shuffled to the next song in my internal playlist, but it was interesting how the lyrics, melodies, and instrumentals were able to be recalled, and recreated so accurately, since these were all old songs I hadn’t listened to in years.

Which made me think.

The brain is always recording, and even if I forget an experience, interaction, or an emotional response, it still gets stored somewhere inside of me.

Sounds kind of scary, right?

Knowing you can never forget, only accept and integrate.

However, I’m also unsure if the recreations my mind was producing for me were actually accurate, or if I just thought that they were in my hypnagogic daze.

I compare this to how cameras capture images, and much like how photographs of the same subject can differ depending on film stock, lens, shutter speed and aperture, I also think, our memories and recreations of them are subject to our emotions when we experience them, along with the emotional state we recall them from.

But hey, I love a grainy photo, it gives an image character, and at the end of the day, it’s all subjective to how you see the world.

How does it look behind your lens?