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Saturday 4th July 2026

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When I had chemo in 2021 it came with some fun side effects. It made me slightly hallucinate (or see the world as it really is, who knows?). I was reading a mind-bending book about quantum physics at the time and I fancied that I could start to see the blocks that made up reality. Also I saw a hare standing in a field at dusk who was standing stock still, but then turned into a crow (or something like that - I must have blogged about it, but can't find it). It felt like I was at one with the real natural world and that the real natural world was insane.
I haven't have much of that this time round, only my mind being bothered by absolute nonsense when I am trying to sleep. Tonight though I looked out of my window at about 10pm. It was getting dark, but some crepuscular light remained. In the dim gloom I saw an odd object in the garden. It looked like an orange bag. I stared at it, confused, trying to work out what it was or where it had come from. The kids had been playing out there, but where would they have found this bag that we didn't own. I couldn't make sense of it.
Then it moved and I realised it was our cat. Or had our cat turned into a bag for a bit, like the hare/crow creature? And why does this stuff only happen when I am recovering from chemo? I have gone through a door where only I can see the real make up of the universe. Cats are made of bags and hares are made of crows. And the Universe is sort of loads of see through blocks. Hope that helps. It's great to have the magic power to see reality for what it is and I pity you sheeple who don't know that cats are actually made of bags. This does not mean you should make a bag out of a cat.





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