{"id":125874,"date":"2015-11-23T18:07:09","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T18:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/11\/23\/illusion-or-not\/"},"modified":"2015-11-23T18:07:09","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T18:07:09","slug":"illusion-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/11\/23\/illusion-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Illusion or not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/snappy-lobster.tumblr.com\/post\/133726010720\" target=\"_blank\">snappy-lobster<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/teapotsubtext.tumblr.com\/post\/133484936793\" target=\"_blank\">teapotsubtext<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/ilkkusaurus.tumblr.com\/post\/86821890059\" target=\"_blank\">ilkkusaurus<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>When John sees Sherlock for the first time after the two years, he doesn\u2019t right away get angry or relieved. Instead he gets scared as hell, because he can\u2019t believe his eyes. His eyes are <em>lying<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/f728f84426607b091a8acb678982bc2c\/tumblr_inline_ny6dsonNqp1t4wisz_500.gif\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p><em>Sherlock is dead + I see Sherlock standing in front of me = I\u2019m delusional.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The real person in this absurd and scary situation is Mary. So he turns to Mary, to check what he should do. <em>Does Mary see the same as I see?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/049abab9fec64cdc0944f35a1d7dde1a\/tumblr_inline_ny6dsoKwGd1t4wisz_500.gif\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s almost a casual look. It looks like he could just ignore the vision of Sherlock if it seemed like Mary doesn\u2019t see him at all. Maybe he wishes it\u2019s just an illusion. Maybe it would have been easier. But what he sees when he looks at Mary is this:<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/e533f0441c2fb69fc3b29341893e78bd\/tumblr_inline_ny6dspfXPv1t4wisz_500.gif\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Mary sees him as well. She confirms Sherlock is real.<\/p>\n<p><em>I see Sherlock in front of me + I am not delusional = Sherlock is not dead.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Sherlock is not dead.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/bb60dffaa1337fd0fe4ec41149573030\/tumblr_inline_ny6dspym4q1t4wisz_500.gif\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>And only then he reacts.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>how many times did john see sherlock when he wasn\u2019t really there<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/bfd6934352bd63c22ca8995c8832733b\/tumblr_inline_ny7aq3tXJD1ri7rkz_540.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>snappy-lobster: teapotsubtext: ilkkusaurus: When John sees Sherlock for the first time after the two years, he doesn\u2019t right away get angry or relieved. Instead he gets scared as hell, because he can\u2019t believe his eyes. His eyes are lying. Sherlock is dead + I see Sherlock standing in front of me = I\u2019m delusional. The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/11\/23\/illusion-or-not\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Illusion or not&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[129,3793,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125874"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}