A Dream within a Dream

It's an extended consciousness, this digital world. I hate to get all whimsical and mysterious, but do we have a digital footprint that goes beyond what you or I may write here?

If I send you an email, asking how you're doing? Is that stopping by? Is that the equivalent of my walking to your house, and when no one is home, leaving a note on the door?

Bear with me a second. We're having a conversation now. Admittedly, it's a one way conversation, but that's the way most of them go. Almost every conversation you have with your parents, regardless of the amount of input they allow you to have is still one way. Are you married? One way conversations. We've all already made up our minds on what we want to say, we're just waiting for our chance to speak. Sometimes, the conversation diverts, but the difference between a good conversationalist and a bad one, is the good conversationalist will redirect you where he wants you to go... back on track. A bad one, stops the train, backs it up and changes the tracks again.

Of course, then you have good listeners. You must be a good listener in some way. If you sat thru the above paragraph, that is. But still, here we are, my one way conversation to you. Being a good listener means letting the conversation go wherever the conversationalist wants it to go.

Sometimes, you get two watch a fight between conversationalists. Even if they're on the same subject, there are micro and macro subjects that they push back and forth with, ignoring the previous interjections.

So my question again. Is sending an email the same as leaving you a note? Or is it more than that? Am I leaving a part of my soul?

What is the matrix?