The thoughts that past through one's head at night can be truly extraordinary. Only during the night, do the unexplored reaches of your mind get touched. It is almost as if the dark invites them to come out and race through the brain. Rattling around in your skull these thoughts grow more vivid, more complex, more concrete. Thoughts of adventure and daring, the likes of which send adrenaline coursing though your veins, can easily be conjured when the sun goes down. The darkness lends itself to more intimate thoughts as well. Love won, love lost, and love not yet found all swirl about the mind, the form of which never fully takes shape, always out of our mental grasp. Thoughts of about the world, creation, and meaning can impact us in life altering ways. But it is in our dreams, that our inner desires are realized. Dreams can allow you to become anyone, anyplace, anytime, or anything because our dreams are our hopes and our fears and by understanding this, we can learn who we are and who we wish to become. These are some of the thoughts that have passed through my head at night, as I explore my mind.
First off this blog is very well set up in the manner of photographic setting affecting the mood. Immediately one sees the picture before reading, seeing the man blowing the smoke into the dusk backdrop sets a calm and collected mood. Meanwhile the background picture of the man sitting with the cigarette in his mouth allows the reader to have a certain sense of "I don't care." But both of the pictures take place in the evening/night time reflecting the title of the article. So even without reading any of the post one has already been put in an eased sense of thinking knowing it will be reflecting a night time state of mind. But throughout the reading the reader is kept in that thinking and even gives me a sense of realization. This person is admitting their own feelings to his "dreams", with a sense of poetic-ness behind it. It's almost given a sense of diary feel to their ominous writing. Expressing how the night truly opens up a whole new side to their thinking, unlocking a whole new side to the world they think about each and every day. Releasing the what you could call, "more risky" side to themselves, their darker side. Tying in the fact that the natural 'darkness' of the world being night brings on the 'darker' thinking within their mind. But in the end the they leave you feeling like it is you who is also thinking this way. The writing definitely leaves a hidden impact on me. The anonymity of this piece also creates the general affect of this piece on the reader. With the topic being so personal yet general and relatable without a face to it, it gives the piece the availability to be perceived as my own thoughts in the end, agreeing to everything they have written, feeling as if these could be my own words once given the chance to think about the topic...Thoughts at night.
ReplyDeleteIn the sense of editing the article I could not find anything that I would change in all honestly. This piece was very well written in the sense that it remained anonymous while emotionally-connected to the writer and the reader at the same time. The grammar remained strong throughout the piece while the word-choice was fit for the article. No complaints in the aspect of editing.
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