The eternal reality in the forgotten dream

Pablo 2022-11-05 03:16:45

In the depths of the cave, there is a wolf's claw mark beside the footprints of an eight-year-old boy. Are they walking side by side? Or is it that the hungry wolf is tracking the boy, or the footprints of the two are thousands of years apart?
Time is sealed in Xiaowei Cave, standing still, you will hear your own heartbeat. Tiny you and me, holding torches in hand, bending forward along the trail, a certain feeling of anxiety and irration strikes, as if we interrupted the work of people in the old age.
With the fire, the charcoal paintings outlined by the ancestors slowly emerged: the neighing horses, the fighting rhinos, and the courted lionesses, as clear as yesterday and extremely vivid, as if they could hear their sounds.
The bear head is carefully placed on the altar, facing the entrance of the cave. The ancestors are dressed in thick fur, very religiously, in a dark environment, chanting spells, entering meditation, in another dimension space, with these strong Living dialogue: Please, give us strength!
In the primitive times, human beings were only a member of the animals. They admired the agility of the elk and the vigor of the liger. Human beings draw idols on the rock wall, trying to open a dialogue between each other's souls. How can't it? Our souls are interlinked. People can speak, and trees can also speak. Here, human and animal souls exchange with each other, flow, permeate, and receive messages from the spiritual world. Look, the soul of the hand is painting.
If the memory can be preserved, then we standing in front of the mural are communicating with our ancient ancestors. While watching, we are also prying into the secrets of the human heart. Can the tauren female body, bravery and prolific, be combined?
When the albino crocodiles swim to Xiaowei Cave, what will they see? The strange fantasy of reflections on the water surface inspired our surreal thoughts: did these creatures split themselves into a mirror image, did they really meet, or is this just the reflection in the mirror they imagined?
And today, are we like a crocodile gazing into the abyss of time and space? Nothing is true, nothing is inevitable. Perhaps, compared with humans tens of thousands of years ago, we are no different, and evolution is simply a false proposition.
In the face of time, in order to prove existence, we keep creating mirror images, observing, and prying, but we will never be able to withstand the destiny that will inevitably disappear.
The dusty cave, like a dream, retains those distant memories. Under the light of the fire, we dance with the shadows, forgetting time.
Raise a glass to invite Mingyue, and face the shadow of three people. Li Taibai has already sung about this lonely and lonely romance and helplessness, no matter how hard it is, it can't compete for time.

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  • Werner Herzog: Crocodiles have been introduced into this brooding jungle and warmed by the water to cool the reactor, man do they thrive. There are already hundreds of them. Not surprisingly, mutant albinos swim and breed in these waters. A thought is born of this surreal environment. Not long ago, just a few thousand years back, there were glaciers here 9,000 feet thick. And now a new climate is steaming and spreading. Fairly soon, these albinos might reach Chauvet caves. Looking at the paintings, what will they make of them? Nothing is real. Nothing is certain. It is hard to determine whether these creatures are dividing into their own doppelgangers and do they really meet or is it just their own imagining mirror reflection? Are we today the crocodiles who look back into the abyss of time when we see the paintings of Chauvet cave?

  • Werner Herzog: We are locked in history and they were not.