The TV Was Off

 Photo date: September 7, 2025. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a photo I took of my TV screen while the TV was off. We have a strange sight that rather resembles a one-eyed face with a giant mouth. It was not the reflection of the camera flash. From the position I was in, it was impossible to get a photo showing the camera flash reflected off of the TV. 

This morning I was surprised to find two blue ear plugs next to each other on the floor, on the right side of my bedroom. I had worn the plugs last night, sticking to a habit I had recently followed partially because of a recently-solved problem of flies in my living quarters (I wanted to exclude the chance of a fly flying into my ear while I slept). I store the ear plugs on the left side of the bedroom.  We have some possible "Other Side" symbolism here, possibly related to life after death semiotics. The plugs being on the floor on the right side of the room could only be explained by an extremely improbable coincidence: the hypothesis that both of the plugs fell out of my ears unnoticed at the same instant during one of the few seconds that I walked past the spot where the plugs were found.  The "Other Side" motif is one that very frequently occurs in my dreams, such as a dream I had last night which had both an "Other Side" motif and a "rising up after decay" motif possibly suggestive of the ascent of the soul after bodily death.