Reflections on Reflections

Last night, I was at the gym on the bike. Reflected in the mirror in front of me was the screen of a TV. From where I was, it looked like they were playing a movie about businessmen having a meeting in one of those fancy New York high-rises. I finished on the bike, turned around, and moved to another machine that was closer to the TV. That’s when I realized the movie wasn’t live-action at all. It was animated, a cartoon with animals dressed like businessmen. It surprised me. A super mind-bending moment. I didn’t have my lenses on, so I had been watching the reflection of the movie, already sort of blurry. And yet what was happening on screen was it had just enough visual information for my brain to interpret them as humans. Is like my memory filled in the gaps. 

Makes me wonder, how many other misperceptions are happening and we don't realize it. 

Last night or early this morning, I dreamt that I wanted to get out of a place, but the two doors for exit were blocked by dogs; hours later,  I have the same experience at the Simple Pleasures Cafe. Not the exact same image, but enough visual information, to connect that moment with the dream.  In the dream world, there is no time/space rule,  is hard to say which one is a reflection of the other one. One thing is clear, in the 'real world' I did get a bit annoyed that the exits were being blocked and that the ladies were not in a rush to move their animals out of the way; it bothered me. In the dream, the dogs that are on the leash, are super large and threatening but they are on a leash; a reflection of my over reaction; the puppy in the middle is cute and playful; Which makes me think that the two large dogs, are in real life the two ladies, the dog owners; I got annoyed at them, I thought they were rude, for prioritizing their dogs; but when I looked down and saw their cute puppies, I smiled, I would never get angry at a cute puppy. Difficult to say, which one is the reflection of the other one, at this point, all I can do is write about it, make note of it. Like if I just woke up, and found myself in super, super dark cave. And I am just starting to explore, so I have to leave some sort of thread, to mark, measure the territory...