Enlighten me
There’s something wrong with the tube
light.
It’s flickering on and off, on and
off.
You might say that’s better than when
it was off all the time
and I was crashing about in the dark
and banging into things.
So much suffering.
Then it came on and everything was so
obvious …
for some timeless moments …
before it went off again.
But there was a faint halo left
so I couldn’t forget its brilliance,
and I yearn for that light.
Other timeless moments have happened
along the way.
Suddenly being in the light
and then the darkness closing round,
forgetting, almost.
Then it started this flickering
business.
This strobing effect is really quite
distracting.
It’s driving me mad.
Sometimes I feel drunk,
sometimes nauseous,
sometimes dizzy
with all this on again, off again
state of affairs.
But now I see there’s nothing wrong
with the light.
It’s on all the time, but I can’t
keep my eyes open.
Time to wake up darling. You’re
dreaming.
© Tina
Shettigara September 2018
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| https://www.statnews.com/2019/02/06/detecting-consciousness-in-flickering-brain-signals/ |
