REMIXED THOUGHTS

Is not our whole being a remix? Each individual is a remix of the last, ever evolving, never the same. Everyday we experience something new that adds to our “so called” life memory chamber and changes it in some way. “We’re in a delirium of saturation. We’re never going to remember anything exactly the way it happened. Memories become ever more fragmented and subjective.” Although at the time it might not occur to one, but in hindsight it made ones life what it is right now. Each little piece of knowledge that enters into ones individual mind can remix and change that person bit by bit. “It’s life in the data-cloud, of course, but it’s also about life in a such a dense place that the human mind acts as kind of an osmotic unit, absorbing randomly but at the same time with some sort of underlying structure.”  This structure that can be influenced, by not only the exterior but the interior as well. All knowledge that we absorb is not always stored into the right part of our brain, therefore remixing and connecting with something completely different.

As in dreams….aren’t dreams a remix of the reality or non-reality one is living in? All the knowledge that we absorb is stored. Although not always accessible, it is there, somewhere in ones mind flowing and interchanging. It is this exterior information that is interchanging and influencing the interior. “The strangest sounds I hear at this point in my life come from inside not outside. Dreams and basic nighttime thought processes generate the most creative sounds. Nothing else can come close to some of the sounds I’ve heard in my mind.” Just like that of DJ Spooky, I also have never experienced or come close to the places I have been in my mind. I don’t care what anyone says…dreaming is the best experience possible. Your inner mind takes you to places not even the best writer or animation artist could describe or create in stories. That is because it is ones own knowledge that is creating the dreams they dream and remixing the experiences in which one has. It is all the information one gathers from everyday life that is absorbed and remixed into this different world in ones dreams. “Sampling is a new way of doing something that’s been with us for a long time: creating with found objects. The rotation gets thick. The constraints get thin. The mix breaks free of old associations. New contexts form from old.” Dreams are just that, memories from both your past and your present are stitched together and remix with each other to create this new world that involves places, people and emotions that one would never think to combined.

We are forever living through the history and the past that we have created through choices. Not only our choices, but also the choices that we have seen others make. It is this outside influence on ones life that makes them take what is happening in the now and somehow alter it with something else that has happened in the past. “You can always squeeze something out of the past and make it become new.”  It is about the identity of each person, this remixing that life brings upon us is forever changing each individual. I grew up in a family of four kids, now think about it we were all raised in the same household, created by the same two people and had a lot of the same influence in our lives…yet we are all completely different because of the environment around us that influences each of us differently. “Identity is about creating an environment were you can make the world act as your own reflection.” Take identical twins for another example…they have the exact same genetic composition but in the end the twins are completely different because of the environment that influences them individually. It remixes the input that comes into their lives to make them two different people. “The eyes stream data to the brain through something like two million fiber bundles of nerves. Consider the exponential aspects of perception when you multiply this kind of density by the fact that not only does the brain do this all the time, but the millions of bits of information streaming through your mind at any moment have to be coordinated and like the slightest rerouting is, like the hearse and omnibus of Melies film accident, any shift in the traffic of information can create not only new thoughts, but new ways of thinking. Literally.”