Why uChicago essay

Option 3: Spanish poet Antonio Machado wrote, "Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it" Give us your guess.

     To live is to act. It is to do something, anything at all that involves physical movements. A living creature will constantly walk, crawl, swim, or squirm to get to somewhere or just for no reason. Living is moving.

     To dream is to think. It is to use the brain to think about something, anything at all that comes to mind. A dreaming creature will constantly use its brain to make plans or remember something or just for no reason. Dreaming is thinking.

     For most people, the connection between acting and thinking is smooth. It flows from one side to the other without much difficulty. The two worlds exist as if they are same entities, so some people are able to act and think at the same time. However, sometimes, the interaction does not occur so naturally. There is something between living and dreaming that interrupts the flow. It is not something obsolete and concrete, for most of the times it does not exist. Then what could it be? What would be the barrier that filters connection intermittently? What causes people to halt between thinking and carrying out what they thought?

     Brain farting is to be confused. It is to forget something, something as trivial as going to sleep, unintentionally. Like regular farting, Brain farting does not occur with a pattern. It just happens some time of the day without any warning. The brain fart zone exists between living and dreaming as a semi permeable film.

     Have you ever had an experience when you open the refrigerator door and realize that you don’t remember what you were going to do? Have you ever suddenly forgotten to ride a bicycle, something that you were so good at before? Have you ever looked at your best friend’s face and just before you were going to call her name, you do not remember what it was? Yes, your brain was farting back then, exuding gases everywhere in your brain.

     To live is to act, to act is to know what you are doing, to know is to have thought about it before, and to think is to dream. However, somewhere in this process your brain might decide to take a break and let out a squeak.