Have you heard of schemas before?

In psychology, a schema is a mental framework. A pattern the mind uses to organize and interpret information based on past experiences.

But let me take you back… way back.

Before I knew words.
Before I knew concepts.

At one point, I was in the womb.

But…
I? What is “I”?
Womb? What is a “womb”?
What is anything before it’s named?

There was no data.
No language.
No concepts.

Until… there was.

A sense.

But what is a sense?

No sense…until there was a sense.
Nothing until something.
Nothing what is “nothing?”
And what is “something”?

This is where schemas begin.

Schemas are the mind’s way of turning infinite, raw experience into something we can recognize, name, and live inside.

We begin to store:
words, concepts, images, memories.

We start noticing patterns.
Making meaning.
Projecting.
Remembering.
Naming.
Communicating.

Little by little, a psyche forms; shaped by sensation, shaped by experience.

There is so much happening beneath the surface of what we call “reality.”

So what is going on?

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I think… I’m feeling it.

All of it.

Seeing more than I can fully understand.
Sensing more than I can articulate.

It feels like there is an entire universe inside of me.
Vast, intricate, alive.

And yet, when I try to express it,
words fall short.

They always do.

Because no matter how much we try to explain it…
we are still translating the infinite
through the very schemas that were built to contain it.