A phone box, and what they represent other than just being there to facilitate the need or want to talk to someone else.

Bill & Ted – where they were given a phone box to use, dialling to when they wanted to travel. Like with most films and representations of time travel, there is a machine, a mechanism, and a point ‘in time’ for you to travel to, and in some cases, return from. As discussed in Somewhere in Time.

Doctor Who – as we all know, his ‘time machine’ was a ship of sorts, shaped as a phone box yet was much more. But it’s still a phone box to the eye, a deceptive cover for its real purpose? Or is that the point, that we look at a normal phone box and think nothing else of it, just seeing it as a basic form of communication now, overlooking it like so much else that ends up just being part of the background or what came before.

Harry Potter – a phone box, not quite in the same way as the others, as this was just used briefly to show a ‘secret entrance’ into the wizarding world in London. But still something that allows you go ‘between’ worlds, and an older style red phone box no less, perhaps meaning what used to be was more important than we think.

ET phone home – not a phone box, or even a telephone as we know it, but I thought of it as it was still use of an old-style analogue signal to communicate to ‘others’.

Superman – in the old school films, it was a thing that Clark Kent would leap into a phone box, and suddenly come out as Superman, where you would think it was just a convenient changing room, and maybe it was. But perhaps, maybe it wasn’t and was meant to be something more.

The Matrix – the hardline. The only way for them to get out once they were in, with a phone connection being the thing that connected them. If you could get to answer it in time. But the idea that our energy or consciousness is able to be transported somewhere else through the analogue signal is an interesting one. And because everything seems inverted these days, I realised that once you were out of the matrix it was rather grim and no one had any powers, so it made me wonder if it was another bait and switch. That it is actually within the matrix you have freedom, or can have freedom if you ‘free your mind’. As that is where they could instantly download information, had to be there to access the mainframe, had to be in there to change things. Just a thought.

Or it could be that we do end up getting ‘trapped’ by all these signals and frequencies, that our individual biofields are heavily swayed, influenced or just plain controlled by external triggers other than that of nature. People will have varying degrees of sensitivity, so I can understand why not everyone can feel the same changes or differences in certain places. We are a finely tuned instrument they say, and potentially connect to more than we are aware of, so Choose Your Thoughts Wisely as you go about your day, we get to check who’s calling or knocking when it’s a door or a phone, but we don’t seem quite as discerning when it comes to letting thoughts in…

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