Thoughts Temblor
- JC Summars

- 12 minutes ago
- 1 min read
It's fun imaging what death is going to be like. Having no beliefs to sway my thinking on the matter, superstitiously speaking, beyond the final quakes and fizzles of dwindling mind function when the time comes, I do not worry about any great beyond. I am intrigued, however, with what the final mind quakes and fizzles are going to be like, and speculate freely on that aspect of transition state. My favorite hypothesis centers on an initial spike of brain activity as synaptic linkages suddenly mesh to reveal deepest memories very vigorously, which then radiate outward in somewhat spherical fashion similar to a supernova. For instance, one second I'm happily rocking along in the studio laying out tracks of a new tune, caring nothing about time or space, then BAM my thoughtstream is interrupted only a nanosecond or two before every thought in my mind suddenly collapses inward into a cogitation singularity . . .

. . . then comes shock breakout in a dazzling past blast as every moment of life experiences instantly becomes the final, all-encompassing thought in my head before everything goes dark and the journey ends. This I think of as a temblor of sorts, a release of lifetime stresses.



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