Tag: fiction

08/10/25

truth. fiction. & the psyche.

“…Some people easily engage with stories, while others find them meaningless. A lot of it seems to come down to empathy. People with a greater predisposition to experience the emotions of others also tend to engage with their mental representations (of stories) as if they are part of reality, increasing immersion. …
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…When we recall these stories, they serve not merely as fiction but as places where we feel truly at home. It is a home that can sometimes feel more real than the material existence from which we are seeking to escape.”

When memories from fiction become part of who you are by Osman Görkem Çetin, psychology instructor psyche/ know yourself magazine
08/10/25

a journey. a journal. a heat wave.

A scorching heat wave ravaging the land. Parched earth, wilted plants, burned leaves… animals and insects hover in a shady spot.

Charming Mediterranean facade with blue shutters and decorative clay pots.

The crickets silenced from the melting heat. The sun glares and fires at all it could reach. The sea? Simmering. The pavement? Frying. The shutters closed to keep out the oppressive heat.

One could smell the rising temperature outside even from the ‘safety’ of the hot indoor shade.

An excerpt from a story? No.

This is the actual weather here, intensely felt from where I am sitting –

unusually hot, unbearable even for this weathered, strangely magical and energetically ravaged corner of the Mediterranean.

Why strangely magical & energetically ravaged?

Because this land has seen more than its share as

  • the light and the dark
  • myth and reality
  • fact and fiction
  • exiled philosophers
  • purged thinkers

have been battling it out here every day for millennia.

Those ‘battles’ charge the atmosphere, color the landscape, and fuel creativity.

Speaking of creativity, in this oppressive heat wave, something triggered the idea in my mind to create The Mothership.

Before I go on, let me introduce myself.

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