New game:
Sit or stand in front of a wall in your room. One with decor. Furniture. Pictures. Colors are good.
Stare at it. Take a mental picture.
Now close your eyes.
Conjure the image you only recently saw.
Now that it is in your memory, let the outlines of the image begin to blur.
As if the image is of paint and you've spritzed the whole scene, with the colors beginning to run.
Reach out with your very real hands, into that illusory canvas and begin to play.
The same way you did as a child while finger painting, only now reality provides all the colors you need (also the cleanup is alot less taxing.)
Now: play. Make suns and moons. Waves and mountains. Pull a book from a nearby shelf; still in your mind's eye, and pull a page out. Plaster the letters on the wall. Then watch in wonder as the images from those words leap out, and canvas their visage on to your imagined wall.
Reshape those images and their colors. Expand a world. Zoom in on a smaller one. Discover a story you never thought you knew.
Transform what you saw into something else. Anything else. everything else.
Once you've transformed this wall that holds up your room: open your eyes.
If upon opening your eyes you realize that all lines are in fact blurs and that the world we live in is simply a blending of the many parts of this world's makeup: you win.
You lose if you eat the paint.
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