Saturday 24 May 2008 photo 6/13
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Close your eyes. All the way. So tightly it almost smarts.
Do you see those swirling darklights, all black and red and purple?
Most people will never pay attention to what should rightly be the back of one's eyelids. In truth, these lights are the place they watch you, every day.
They hide behind your eyelids, waiting for you to blink, to sleep. And they are the reason you die. Every night, every second they are eating your thoughts.
Whenever you try to remember something you know you knew yesterday and cannot it is not that you forgot it, but that it was consumed. And when you have eventually run out of thoughts you will die an ignominious death. Cancer, heart attacks, strokes - every sudden disease you could name can be traced to them.
Blinking is only a little death. It's sleeping that they really thrive on. Hours of uninterrupted access to the softest parts of your thoughts.
You can, of course, try to stop sleeping altogether. It is possible. They found a Russian man from high in the mountains who claimed that he never slept, ever, a day in his life. The man was 112 and healthier than most American 65-yr-olds. Physically, at least. He could remember every moment of his life from the time he was three years old, if you could get it out of him.
The drawback is that the man was completely insane.
If you ever stop paying attention to them for too long, they will begin to pay attention to you. When you stay up too long they grow hungry, and they grow restless. When you stay up spoiling your eyes on a computer screen you will begin to feel shadows creep into flesh, hear the utilities of the house turn into inhuman breathing, and feel the prickling of invisible fingers at the small of your back.
Which is worse for you? Dying little by little, or finding out what happens when they starve?
Do you see those swirling darklights, all black and red and purple?
Most people will never pay attention to what should rightly be the back of one's eyelids. In truth, these lights are the place they watch you, every day.
They hide behind your eyelids, waiting for you to blink, to sleep. And they are the reason you die. Every night, every second they are eating your thoughts.
Blinking is only a little death. It's sleeping that they really thrive on. Hours of uninterrupted access to the softest parts of your thoughts.
You can, of course, try to stop sleeping altogether. It is possible. They found a Russian man from high in the mountains who claimed that he never slept, ever, a day in his life. The man was 112 and healthier than most American 65-yr-olds. Physically, at least. He could remember every moment of his life from the time he was three years old, if you could get it out of him.
The drawback is that the man was completely insane.
If you ever stop paying attention to them for too long, they will begin to pay attention to you. When you stay up too long they grow hungry, and they grow restless. When you stay up spoiling your eyes on a computer screen you will begin to feel shadows creep into flesh, hear the utilities of the house turn into inhuman breathing, and feel the prickling of invisible fingers at the small of your back.
Which is worse for you? Dying little by little, or finding out what happens when they starve?