Brain Crack

So, there's this guy on YouTube, and he mentioned an term this other guy devised: brain crack. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24prm3XjVgk

As he mentions in the video, brain crack is when you have an idea, especially one that you really like. However, rather than getting it out of your head and doing it, you turn it over a million times in your head, trying to perfect it. You do this so much that you end up becoming addicted to this "brain crack" and never put your "perfect" idea into action. Huh... creativity coming back again. Potential video for the class? B-Shak might like this.

Anyway, I think I might be addicted to brain crack... big time. So, in an effort to recover from my addiction (and at the same time getting my fix), here's a question for you: Is it better to live in a reality which you know to be false than to take drastic actions to discover a reality that will, in essence, send you into non-existence?

This has been shifting in my head for quite a while now. It's an idea for a story I have. Originally, it was going to be a story in which the characters gradually recognized the existence of the author and begin to rebel against him/her. But, over many fixes of brain crack, it changed into something entirely different (though I still like the other idea)--a story in which a character lives in a reality that is actually unreality and his journey to discover actual truth/reality. It draws on ideas from Descartes and the skeptics--all those who said we must start with doubt--as well as The Matrix, Inception, The Truman Show, 1948, Fahrenheit 451, and a host of other sources.

My basic point is this: When confronted with the truth--that reality is not reality at all--a person will strive to find true reality. It's the basis of a lot of movies. In Inception, the question of whether the totem topples or not, and whether that matters. In The Matrix, it's choosing the red pill. That Neo somehow always knew that things weren't right (that's a topic you see in a lot of places). The Truman Show and his similar search for the "real." 1948 and the importance of truth.

What I really want to drive home is the idea that the truth is of extreme importance. That one will go to great lengths to know it. I also want to include an aspect a lot of sci-fi shows and movies have used--that the character somehow knows things weren't quite right, and that it mattered.

Maybe one day I will be rehabilitated, saved from my addiction to brain crack. But it means failure. It means letdown and disappointment. But it also means progress. Bring it on...