Shadow Lurker [Mind's Eye - part 1]

Even at a very young age he had thought there was someone else. It was subconscious at best, but he felt someone lurking in the shadows of his mind waiting patiently for just the right moment to strike and take control. It was a slow process that took time to be implemented. It was much easier when he was a kid, as the imaginations of children are so much easier to leech on to without being noticed. But once the Lurker eased its way in, the child’s imagination was easy to manipulate. His innocence would willfully allow himself to be swept into the trance, when letting go of reality from time to time. Even if it were only for a few minutes, the child could be swept away to see the world, as most adults could not.


This continued for years. Tens of thousands of dreams, both in wake and in sleep, were at the mercy of the Shadow Lurker. Implementing himself in the very center of the child’s mind, the Shadow Lurker carefully made subtle suggestions and provoked unrealistic thoughts. And the child, at his youthful imaginative age, listened subconsciously to these thoughts and played them out in his mind. But as he grew older, began schooling and learned the ways of the known world and his place within it, the child’s mind grew a rough exterior causing the Shadow Lurker’s influence to be blocked. That’s not to say that the Lurker was completely ignored. It had been an influence long enough to have made an impact on the child’s mind, and now would have to wait for a slumber to continue flashing truths into his mind’s eye. For the mind’s eye is only the real eye a human has, which can see the depths of reality that exterior eyes cannot.


So it continued. The more the child became a man, the less influential the Lurker was able to be, at least on the surface. Within the man’s mind the Lurker became less prominent as a sole “being.” Rather, over the course of its dormant years, the Lurker’s energy had infused with that of the man himself. The Lurker’s identity had been, more or less, adapted by the continual growth of the man, but still played a large role in his subconscious. It was now up to the man to discover what gift the Lurker had left in his large cavernous brain. It was now left up to the man to realize his subconscious and his dreams, to break through the wall that had been constructed by years of mental conditioning that was taught by the world we see through exterior eyes. The very wall that was built to block the Lurker in his adolecent years. But it would take time for him to destory that wall. First he would have to hear the secrets being whispered from his mind, and then he’d have to listen to them. And then he would have to trust and believe that the words being said were reality. And this would not be an easy task. Not for him. Not for anyone.

We all have a Shadow Lurker in our mind, and it is secrets of human potential that it whispers. Many will never hear the words being whispered. Many of who do, will never believe them. And then there are those who hear, listen and try to believe, but fail. There are only a few who will be able to truly believe. As for the rest who try, it will only make them mad.

But then, maybe that’s the point.