An Open Door
It’s not a very long road to travel. First, you have to pull back from the reality that you are in. You do that by sometimes closing your eyes. Sometimes that is not necessary, in that case, your path is free and your door is already open and you step in without knowing you have. The key to realizing that you have reached your destination is that all sights and sounds have been replaced by others that usually are not connected to where you thought you were.
Should you realize where you are, you can then control the direction that you wish to take. Sometimes it’s easy because you have been given a clue as to where you can go and you make a choice. Other times it is a bit more convoluted and you don’t have control and must just follow where you are taken.
In the past, a famous TV personality codified the entrance through this door. It went something like this: You’re traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That’s the signpost up ahead – your next stop…
And then you are there. Once in the door, anything can happen. Your creative mind can take you to known places and you can experience things that have happened before. Or it can take you to places that look familiar yet are not and on adventures both wonderful and dangerous. And then there are times it can place you in a future world that is filled with horrors of potential reality. The places you can go are endless. The best of times is when you are free to explore new ideas and creations. That, is what is in store for you when you enter the path to your imagination.
The outside world sees a different picture. If you are awake, in a crowd, at a meeting, at a meal, you look glazed over, which can at times confuse and scare people. They might tend to pull back through the door into their reality. This might be helpful, if say, you are driving a car. Otherwise, it can be very frustrating.
If you enter when you are sleeping, only you are there. No one else knows unless they are watching your eyelids or you’re making some motions in reaction to what you’re experiencing and interfering with their sleep and their own visits to their imagination. Unfortunately, those visits to your imagination, tend to be temporary, for when you return, it doesn’t take long before you can’t recall where you have been.
As a writer, it is the best place to be. For therein lies the fountain of all your work. All you need is a little encouragement to go there and let the words flow. In my case, the door to my imagination is always open and that fountain of creativity and ideas is overflowing. Not a bad place to spend my time when I can.
