I’ve recently shied away from writing anything new that would reveal more of the controversial things I’ve done in my life, but these things I have experienced taught me a few things about the nature of reality and perhaps the reality of nature that might be of use to you.
This post is about sight.
When you are dreaming, you are using the same equipment to “see” that you use when you are awake, eyes open. The only difference is that in your waking hours your brain primarily uses the input from your eyes to build a model of “sight” and that model is quickly updated as you look around.
Here is a fact:
Your eyes are always moving. If you look at the same scene for too long, objects in the scene will disappear from your sight.
This is true of all our senses. When you pick up your girlfriend, you notice her perfume. After a while, it no longer stands out. If you hear a buzzing noise in a room, eventually you won’t. After a while, you don’t notice the itchy tag on your underwear or the funny taste in your mouth.
We also don’t notice when sensory input changes very slowly.
These are proven, scientific facts.
One morning a couple of years ago I woke up, still dreaming. When I opened my eyes, the imagery from my dream mixed with my view of the room. I was mostly conscious and was able to alter what I was seeing of the room just as I was creating the dream. It only lasted a short time, maybe 90 seconds, and was one of the coolest experiences ever.
Kids, you’re doing that right now. In the interest of survival, what you choose to see closely approximates what’s before you in the real world, but there is no doubt that you and your brain are altering it slightly.
When we say that someone sees the world through rose colored glasses, we generally are talking about how they feel about what they see. The glass is half full. It’s a bright, shiny afternoon. The world is happy and loving.
How we feel about someone is a very important factor in how we see them.
A woman who is mean to you looks more like a witch. A woman who is nice to you looks more like an angel.
I won’t say how I achieved this, but I’ve witnessed drastic changes in my own appearance as my ideas about myself were altered over short periods of time, a few minutes.
People are not happy because they look good — people look good because they’re happy.
Your happiness and confidence alters the sight of those around you.
I’m not talking about some magical power you have to control the minds of others. People like happiness and confidence. We pick it up using our senses — we read your body language and the expression on your face — and we decide to see you how we like to see happy and confident people.
If you’re smiling and you communicate how happy you are to see her, she probably won’t notice the scuffs on your shoes.
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