experience
Jul. 16th, 2005 11:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
guslI was just lying on the floor stretching, with my hands on my eyes when I turn to the side against the bright sunlight. I didn't notice this at the time, only when I closed my eyes and saw a ghost image. I decided to close my eyes one-by-one, and I saw a fuzzy-around-the-edges, purple, Pennsylvania-shaped image, which I kept following around like a carrot on a stick. (what are they called?)
The circles in the middle indicate what I can easily see. It's quite hard to see anything outside of them (maybe they're near the blind spot / peripheral vision?): as soon as you move your eyes, the image moves with them. (Well, if they're near the blind spot, then there's nothing printed on them anyway.)
Maybe it takes some sort of meditative power to accurately perceive these images without moving your eyes.
I'm still a bit confused about the surrounding rectangles. Oh... now I know: it's because I was lying down, "up" was actually south, so the rectangles above are the windows to the right (editing images slightly...)
I still don't understand why the right eye had only the outline of my fingers, whereas the left eye was missing them completely. From the geometry, at the time of exposure, those fingers must have been on the right eye. So why did they disappear from the image on the left?
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I hate losing information... like in writing down dreams, this sort of thing has to be done quickly. Maybe we should invent shorthand languages for phenomenological experiences, or techniques for registering them quickly and accurately.
The circles in the middle indicate what I can easily see. It's quite hard to see anything outside of them (maybe they're near the blind spot / peripheral vision?): as soon as you move your eyes, the image moves with them. (Well, if they're near the blind spot, then there's nothing printed on them anyway.)
Maybe it takes some sort of meditative power to accurately perceive these images without moving your eyes.
I'm still a bit confused about the surrounding rectangles. Oh... now I know: it's because I was lying down, "up" was actually south, so the rectangles above are the windows to the right (editing images slightly...)
I still don't understand why the right eye had only the outline of my fingers, whereas the left eye was missing them completely. From the geometry, at the time of exposure, those fingers must have been on the right eye. So why did they disappear from the image on the left?
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I hate losing information... like in writing down dreams, this sort of thing has to be done quickly. Maybe we should invent shorthand languages for phenomenological experiences, or techniques for registering them quickly and accurately.