Eyes Wide Opened

26/05/22

What is the first thing you see when you wake up? The vision after a night’s slumber. After a night of rest and repair and finally when your body regains consciousness again.

Since everyone experiences this process of waking up and falling back to sleep nearly every day, everyone should have this vision for at least 365 a year.

Of these people, I wonder how many of them would really open their eyelids slowly and observe.

Since I do not have perfect vision, blurriness is all I can see with my bare eyes. However, as time passed, I started to eyeball around my room. Scanning from the ceiling and moving down to my surroundings in the room. The colour, the texture, the furniture, and most importantly, the space that contains my thoughts, ideas, and emotions. All inside this big cube. Much like a dollhouse where I am the doll.

The vision that comes after the transition from slumber to awakening is the closest thing you can get from the moment a newborn opens his eyes.

Of course, the transition that they experience would be much more overwhelming and stimulating. If you regard the mind as a canvas, theirs would be blank. The first marking on their canvas would be the strong hospital lights, the mechanical sound of surgery equipment, and the voice of adults.

Now, our chance of almost reliving that concept of the moment is granted to us every day, if you sleep every day that is. However, our minds are no longer blank. They contain agenda for the next day, social media waiting to be consumed, and breakfast to be eaten.

That said, we are already unconsciously living in the future the moment we wake. The future that we created inside our canvas. This is not natural for humans as we are not born this way.

Until the next sunrise, try to pay attention to the first vision we gain from 8 hours of darkness. Maybe with that, an indirect connection with our infant selves can be made, an unconventional practice of living in the present can be commenced.