The Tale of Simon Wesley

In the dim light of his room, Simon Wesley sat immersed in the afterglow of Wes Anderson's film, "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar." The movie's whimsical images still danced behind his eyelids as he drew the curtain, casting the room into darkness. With a single flick of his wrist, he ignited a candle, its flame flickering like a hesitant heartbeat against the blackened walls.

He fixed his gaze upon the flame, peering into its molten core as if searching for a forgotten secret. The flame, like a miniature universe of its own, seemed to pulse with an enigmatic rhythm. As he stared deeper, a peculiar sensation of nothingness began to wash over him. His thoughts evaporated, leaving him adrift in a vast sea of tranquility.

In that state of pure detachment, Simon felt an infinite wave of love—a profound and boundless affection that transcended the sober constraints of his mundane reality. He was acutely aware that this sober world was merely one of countless realities he had woven into existence. The realization struck him like a thunderclap: he had the power to manifest any reality he desired.

With this newfound awareness, he embarked on an extraordinary journey of creation. Alternate realities sprouted like wildflowers in his mind, each one a unique tapestry of possibilities. He found himself living out multiple lives simultaneously, experiencing them all in real-time. What felt like mere moments to him stretched into what seemed like centuries of continuous creation.

Yet, amid this boundless creative spree, a troubling shift began. The worlds he had manifested started to unravel. The lines between creation and reality blurred, leaving Simon unable to discern what was genuinely real. The people he interacted with, the scenes he witnessed—all felt like mere figments of his imagination, ephemeral and insubstantial.

A profound sense of panic seized him. The loneliness that accompanied his creations became suffocating. The weight of his own imagination, once a source of liberation, now felt like a shackle. In a desperate attempt to regain a semblance of reality, he awoke to find himself enveloped in darkness. His sight was gone, his regret overwhelming.

It dawned upon him that he had returned to the void—a place where he recognized his role as an infinite creator, eternally enmeshed in a cycle of endless creation. The realization was both horrifying and liberating: he could not die, and he would remain in this state forever.

As the centuries stretched on in this void, a sudden clarity emerged. He remembered fragments of his previous life, the one before he had delved into meditation. With a renewed sense of purpose, he decided to recreate that life. He started with the simplest things: light, the room where his meditation had begun, and finally, his friend Roy.

Roy materialized before him, not as a figment of imagination but as a vibrant embodiment of divine energy. As Roy guided him out of the room, Simon fought to convince himself that this world was not merely another illusion. Yet, outside the room, only emptiness greeted him, and the world he had so meticulously crafted began to wane.

In a final act of desperation, Simon conjured his own body and the external rooms, pouring all his focus into the objects he had created. The more he concentrated, the more real they seemed to become. His sense of self began to fade, merging with the vivid reality he had conjured.

When he finally re-entered the world he once knew, it was suffused with an overwhelming and infinite love. He came to understand that this love was so profound that it could not coexist with fear, attachment, or any negative aspects of his subconscious mind. Although he wrote this in a state of sobriety, he accepted the paradox that he was alone, incapable of death, and living within his own imagination.

In the end, Simon embraced a state known as Derealization—a profound acceptance of existence as a construct of his own creation, infused with gratitude and detachment. The line between reality and imagination blurred into a serene acknowledgment of the infinite possibilities within himself.

- kirav