Beside myself..........

Funny story; I blacked out the other day, and whilst I was out I had this strange vision. It turns out that, in a couple of years time, I'm sat, at my laptop, watching what appears to be the sixth series of the Channel Five head fucking serial drama 'Flash Forward', who'd have thunk it?!
Ok, so I didnt have this vision (It was actually the 7th series......ok, thats bollocks too.....I was shagging a penguin) but the fact remains that this show has the weight and potential to make it past this first head worrying season and on to the dizzy hights of future installments. I mean, ok its rusty in places, but then again it does have a hefty and significantly complex back story to support, let alone the expectation on the writers following their equally superb hit show 'Lost'. The premise of the story is that on October 6th the whole planet blacks out for 2 minutes, and whilst under, everyone collectively has a premonition of their lives 6 months in the future. This is fascinating enough, but what I find the most interesting is the way the makers of the show have decided to display the different charcters visions to the viewer. Obviously, they have to show the character so that the audience know who the visions about, but is that really how it works. Alright, so Im not making alot of sense, but hear me out.
Try this; think back to five minutes ago and picture your experience of that moment (look I know its monday night and you're probably drunk, but humour me.....and try not to pass out, this is a serious experiment, honest!). Now, when you did that, did you a) visiualise the room, it's contents and your experience of all that or did you b) visualise the room, it's contents, your experience of it and yourself? In other words, when you formulate a memory, or if you were to try and put yourself in a future situation, can you picture your actual self in the room, or are you just seeing it, and cannot therefore see your actual self? Put better; Do you see the room, or do you see yourself seeing the room? Where is the camera positioned in a memory? For me, I tend to always see myself experience a given situation as opposed to just experiencing it. For example, when I think back to five minutes ago, I'm sat beside myself, watching my five-minutes-ago self sitting at the laptop. Thats right, no fucking steady cams or green screens to be seen! Whats interesting about Flash Forward is that the directors have clearly used this for some of the characters visions. In some, the character is there. In others, it is all seen through their eyes.... apart from those who never had a vision, but it doesn't really matter about them because they're gonna die soon!
I guess what Im trying to salvage from this wreckage of a post is two things. One is the sublime foresight (Oh no I di'nt!!) that the directors of Flash Forward have in editing and creating the vision scenes, and two is the intreague that there is to be had in just stopping for a second and really thinking about how you place yourself in past events, no matter how small. And also, how you would place yourself in future events, unless you've already seen them, which makes you lucky. But wait, thats also means that we did black out for 2 minutes and had visions.......so why didnt I have one..............oh...........shit!
Ben Hawling