How many times have you use your imagination to transport you to a world where reality is warped? How many times have you imagined face to face with the person that you really like? This page is dedicated to one of human being's most powerful tool, human imagination. Following this short article is the lyrics to the song, Face To Face, written by Danny Elfman and Siouxie and the Banshees.
Imagination exists independently of all other brain functions. All other brain functions are concerned with response to quantifiable external stimuli- to cold, to heat, to pain, to caresses. Humans alone possess imagination. Even the so-called 'sixth sense' that animals possess- for instance, the much-vaunted ability of dogs to be able to anticipate earthquakes- is only a highly-refined response to measurable ground-tremors and changes in atmospheric pressure. Dogs cannot imagine earthquakes, any more than cows can imagine rain. Animals cannot imagine that they are another animal, living in another age, in another country.
Humans, however, are capable of creating infinite worlds inside their heads. They can imagine that they are other people. They can even imagine that they are animals. One human can create an imaginary world, with imaginary people in it, and write about it, and that world can then be recreated, with certain personal adjustments, inside another human's mind. Imagination is capable of taking on its own existence.
There is anecdotal evidence that the human imagination is capable of outliving the human body and the reactive brain- that 'ghosts' arenot the souls of people who have died while leaving some important corporeal business undone, or the spirits of those who are still seeking revenge for some terrible injustice that was done to them during their substantial lifetimes. Instead, 'ghosts' are the living resonance of the most powerful of human qualities, the ability to create out of nothing that which is not, and which never can be, and yet is just as real to the common consciousness as something that actually was.
Who is the more real? Abraham Lincoln or Tom Sawyer? What is more real? Emerald City or The Great Wall Of China? If we can imagine a place or a person with complete conviction, is that not every bit as good as 'reality'?
~Face to Face~
Face to face
my lovely foe
Mouth to mouth
raining heaven's blows
Hand on heart
tic tac toe
Under the stars
naked as we flow
Cheek to cheek
the bitter sweet
Commit your crime in your deadly time
Commit your crime in your deadly time
It's too divine
I want to bend
I want this bliss but something says I must resist
Another life
another time
We're Siamese twins writhing intertwined
Face to face
no telling lies
The masks they slide to reveal a new disguise
You never can win
it's the state I'm in
This danger thrills and my conflict kills
They say follow your heart
follow it through
But how can you
when you're split in two?
And you'll never know
You'll never know
One more kiss
before we die
Face to face
and dream of flying
Who are you?
who am I?
Wind in wings
two angels falling
To die like this
with a last kiss
It's falsehood's flame
it's a crying shame
Face to face
the passions breathe
I hate to stay but then I hate to leave
And you'll never know
You'll never know . . .
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