{"text":"Was it possible to feel nostalgic about something that had never happened to him, possible for nostalgia to be taken in by the body as a free pathogen to infect the consciousness with stray sentiments? Perhaps, in his dreams, he had traveled back in time, or even drifted into another dimension of space-time and inhabited the body, experiences, and nostalgia of another. To even envisage so allowed the trauma of those lost moments, though not his own, to draw from him a certain envy for the entity in whose memories he had basked vicariously. . .Perhaps, nostalgia was a microorganism. . .The bacterium that infected. . . Yes. . .Maybe he was sick.","author":"Ashim Shanker","tags":["ailment","bacterium","consciousness","entity","envy","infection","lost-time","microorganisms","multiple-personalities","multiple-universes","nostalgia","pathogen","plague","remembrance-of-things-past","time-travel","vicarious-experience"],"id":198328,"author_id":"Ashim+Shanker"}