Universal Rewinders

Emotions in general are very, very powerful, and can definitely control anyone, no matter how strong they may be, emotionally. Memories, in particular, are a way of holding onto things you are, things you love, things you never want to lose. It's like a diary we carry around with us, with each of its pages filled with a myriad of emotions and experiences.


Tiny little things that they may be, and immeasurable as well, memories see no bar, no factor, and are definitely a part of each one of our lives. These fragments floating in our head have so much power – can make us happy reminiscing a previous incident; make us thoughtful in retrospect of random actions and so on. Basically, memories are every man's private literature. Literature full of life, full of lessons, full of emotions. At times, it even fuels us, fuels that last mile, that last hurdle which we refuse to cover.

But its always surprising as to how much memories are built around things that were unnoticed at that time! Memories feed imagination, like a minute detail observed in passing, an image, action, or anything of that sort, seen or experienced before, where we instantly rewind to that period, creating a vivid image of it and this in itself is an incredible experience. Something as simple as a smell, though momentary, can conjure up and entire period in our childhood. Memories are wonderful. Memories are to be cherished, and at times, would definitely love to experience those times again. Basically, rewinding life.

On a lighter note, I saw this board somewhere near college – though I wish it could do what it claims it can! But yes, laugh out loud, :D .

What's in a Name?

Well blog name hunting was one of the biggest hurdles I faced before starting this blog. But it was an interesting one as well. Well, what's in a blog name? In my opinion, I put it up there on the priority list, because its going to stick with the blog as long as it lasts. What was I looking at? Something which isn’t too big, too arbit, too cocky or too irrelevant. Browsing and browsing, failure after failure. As friends would know, I even resorted to my favourite tool, with multiple keyword combinations, which still didn’t yield success! Drat. What to do? Ditched it for some time, went on one of those random walks, this time with no one. Yes. Was alone! And at the end of it, guess what?! I got my blog name. NAAT! This isn’t some fairytale bollywood bullshit. Success can't be purchased or cajoled or bribed, not at any store, not even online!


Anyways, got back to the computer, logged onto Facebook, and was reading some arbit article when I chanced upon the word LUCID. Wiki-ed it, and found no result. Instead, it showed lucid dreaming, which was described as follows –

A lucid dream is a dream in which the sleeper is aware that he or she is dreaming. When the dreamer is lucid, he or she can actively participate in and often manipulate the imaginary experiences in the dream environment.

Similar stuff?? Definitely! This is sort of what we all do in hostels all the time! Well most of us. Most of the time. But yes, its fun, possibly productive and a serious way to kill time, as I had claimed previously as well. Staring into nothingness. Dreaming about shit. Any kind of shit. Friends or fantasies. Incidents or illusions. Gotcha! There you are, my beauty! One word decided.


So log onto www.blogger.com run through all those rituals till "Enter Blog Name" page. Try lucid-dreams.blogspot.com. Oh for one, I am stuck with anything remotely Google. I always will be. I am always dreamy-eyed whenever the name comes up. What a wonderful manifestation this virtual beast is. So no wordpress and waffle like that for me. All that apart for now. So yes, rejected. Time and again. All combinations of lucid and dream(s). This remotely isn’t a fairytale! Then now to synonyms.com. Type in dream. Get loads of stuff. Nothing commonplace. Aaargh. Failure again. So just think to myself, still on Facebook. Again some random word walks upto me, and introduced itself as "Illusion". Thought about it.

Why not? I thought. Sort of on the dot. Thus the name was bought.

And thus this baby took birth. www.lucid-illusions.blogspot.com. Happy with it? Yes. Actually sort of. Atleast for the moment!


P.S. Mixture of reactions to the blog name as well, when the first post was up, including "Jeez", "What shit?", "Seriously, chiggi?", "Hmmm….", "Brilliant!". Well the last one was mine!

Numero Uno

Hello everybody. Im Vignesh Venkatesan. A grass-eating teenager, for two-thirds of the year, I loiter around the greens of National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal. The remaining third is spent in greener pastures, luxuriously at Malleshwaram, the happening area, Bangalore. A product from BASE factory, and inmate of NPS, have seen the Garden City trying really hard to shed its tag to acquire a new ones, since 1999.

Moving on, intros apart, what made me take up this phenomenon of blogging? Two main factors – one, the number of friends and acquaintances especially from college who were jobless enough to put their thoughts into this virtual world through blogs, and secondly, this was a solution for me to put into writing all sorts of ideas, thoughts and etc. that were swimming in my cranium, more due to the lack of a physical book or something similar to reflect upon.

Plans for this blog? Well not very precisely charted out, but yes, I hope that atleast for these two months, where I’m blessed with non-patience testing internet speeds, frequency of blogging willl be high. Post that, its upto the admin, atmosphere, perseverance and yes, feedback. Content wise, arbit thoughts, arbit idea(l)s, arbit news snippets, arbit incidents, arbit experiences, arbit fundae, arbit arbitrary stuff. Basically, arbit.

Frankly, brevity isn't my forte. Well, some concrete stuff’ll be there. This isn’t some junk blog. There’ll be that “odd” serious moment. Might sound like some philosophical rambling, but yes, in my opinion, apart from sleep, staring into nothingness and giving your thoughts a free leash is the best pastime. Also, your humour is welcome, so is sarcasm, ideas, opinions, comments and etc. Simply put, fuel for me to write.

Here I officially begin my blogging career, the road which millions worldwide have tread upon, some still ambling towards the finish line, while others sprinting to the finish line. I don’t know which of those paths to take, but I just hope the time spent here will be fun-filled, informative, productive, entertaining, and overall, worth the time spent.

Hello World.