LJ Rabbit Hole Day

[shadesong]

From crisper, as pimped by superflow:

January 27th is the birthday of Lewis Carrol, author of ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND. Alice fell down a rabbit hole into a place where everything had changed and none of the rules could be counted on to apply anymore. I say, let's do the same: January 27th, 2005 should be the First Annual LiveJournal Rabbit Hole Day. When you post on that Thursday, instead of the normal daily life and work and news and politics, write about the strange new world you have found yourself in for the day, with its strange new life and work and news and politics. Are your pets talking back at you now? Has your child suddenly grown to full adulthood? Does everyone at work think you're someone else now? Did Bush step down from the White House to become a pro-circuit tap-dancer? Did Zoroastrian missionaries show up on your doorstep with literature in 3-D? Have you been placed under house arrest by bizarre insectoid women wielding clubs made of lunchmeat?

Let's have a day where nobody's life makes sense anymore, where any random LJ you click on will bring you some strange new tale. Let's all fall down the Rabbit Hole for 24 hours and see what's there. It will be beautiful.

(Lewis Carroll was epileptic, by the way... and you can see a lot of the symptoms in Alice. The feeling of falling, the feeling of things getting bigger and smaller, among other things, are common pre-ictal states.)

(I may do an all in-character Shayara day. Although I'm not sure if it might be copping out, because it's not *new*. But hey. Call me lazy.)

Comments

[aussie-nyc.livejournal.com]

the feeling of things getting bigger and smaller

I get that on rare occasions. The room feels two feet wide, then abruptly the window is the size of a football field. It terrified me when I was very young.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

It never really scared me. I guess I felt like I was getting a glimpse of the world the way it really was. The lack of constants. Schroedinger's Room!

[aussie-nyc.livejournal.com]

I envy your nimble mind. Took me years to realise the sensation is actually pretty cool.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

*hug*

My brain's been weird always. I've come to find that it's a relief that there's an actual physiological reason for a lot of this, but still - I understand why, in some cultures, epileptics were revered as shamans. Some of these mental states are gifts. I feel like sometimes I get to see what the world is like when no one's looking, hear what happens when the tree falls in the forest with no one to hear it, so to speak. Does that make sense?

[aussie-nyc.livejournal.com]

Definitely. Peeking behind the veil.

[sorchawench.livejournal.com]

Yanno....I was reading this, pondering that tomorrow, my world would involve me going nuts on the job, weilding one of those clubs of lunchmeat...

I find that this actually doesn't scare me as much as it should. The possibilities are pretty damn good that this could happen. Keep an eye on the news.

[whitecrow0.livejournal.com]

Well, I was going to try to do Greyhaven (or Astera) posts if I had the time, sooo... ;}