Chrissy Jaeger- Confinement

We have spent the entire class talking about myth and going beyond our realm of existence and expanding and experiencing and it is these things that bring us into understanding and appreciation for our reality. The emphasis is going beyond, or adding to our primary reality. But what about taking away? What about using less reality to better appreciate and understand reality? For example when one is locked in a room with no food or water, no window to enjoy the view. It is these people when they first see the sky and taste food again they see how wonderful everything truly is. They cannot take it for granted because they have longed for it. Confinement can be a type of secondary reality that helps us understand our world better. That our world is not about the grand things like money and houses, it’s about nature and relationship and all the things we forget are so special. It would be really interesting to explore, in the same way Lewis and others do with myth, how the other end of the spectrum produces a similar outcome.