Ekaterina A. (EIE) - Memories, dreams, and premonitions-possibilities

I love diving into memories, partly because something seems to be missing in the present. If the present lacks events, I try to find them in the past or think about the future, dream about it.

<...> When a familiar person walks into a room, I can predict their behavior. I guess I very quickly — it only takes a few seconds — unfold images in my mind of what could happen. Roughly speaking, I fantasize. I feel a person’s energy, see their eyes, their hands, and I start filling in the rest. I see little scenes before my eyes: what they might say, what they might do. In class, I’d look at one person, then another. A person is who they are right now, and I begin to imagine them wearing different clothes, with different expressions, different ways of talking on the phone.

A classmate in the future — how he walks there, maybe swims.

I try on different images and find the one that suits them best at the moment, but with the idea of what they might become after some time.