I am having weird thoughts these days. Just a little while ago, I had a strange feeling. As I looked around, I imagined that I could see everyone in the office, and nothing else; that somehow I could choose what I saw. Somehow everything else would be filtered and my eyes will show me only that particular thing. And then sitting in this cubicle, I chose to be able to see all humans and nothing else. The image that formed in my mind as a result was wonderful. There was a grid of humans hanging in the air...3-D...many guys above me, in the upper floors, and many below and many at my level. Most of the people were in sitting postures, both their hands held in front of them...their fingers moved up and down and the eyes were all fixed on the nothingness in front of them...There were some guys walking, some just standing. I could see the bottoms of many shoes (I chose to see people in their clothes...hehe...)
As I looked afar, there were more people...all hanging in space. All seemed to be doing something. The hands, legs, bodies moved in weird fashions. I thought a little more...
I could not see the earth as well, there was no sky, no stars...The earth was a huge bunch of people hanging in space. There was something round in between, the earth itself, invisible, that separated people from one end of the globe and the other...from falling towards each other. I am not sure whether my eyes have the ability too see people so far away as the people at the other diametric end of the earth. There definitely was a spherical barrier I could notice as I looked down coz there were no people below that.
My hands could feel a lot of things...I could feel a box in front of me...A chair underneath...I got up...Nobody noticed me...I could see everyone...I tried to walk a little...people under me, people above me...I felt there was a path between 2 rows of people...I walked along that...I hit a wall...I turned...
A friend of mine, let's call him Shoonya...I told him everything about the limitations of my vision...He put things to eat in my hand...I ate them...I had to survive...He guided me when I had to move on the road...Saved me from being hit by vehicles...I did what he told me to...I ate what he gave me, I shit where he asked me to...I drank invisible water...
Then I started wondering, what if Shoonya wasn't there...what if there was no one like Shoonya...what if everyone was like me...I pondered more on that...
We would all have been humans hanging loosely in space...that's from the visibility point of view...but our sense of touch told us that there is a lot out here...and around...
Not sure how we would have evolved under those circumstances.
We wud never have had paper, pens, the wheel...at least in the visible form. I guess wheel could still have found a use...we cud have vehicles...invisible vehicles...moving on invisible roads...made smooth...what wud we get when we dig...go on digging...u go deep down...earth that can be seen through...the sense of touch would tell us that the temperature increases as u go deep...we'll have to stop beyond a point...could be a confusing situation...we dig a ditch...we cannot really see it...how do we spot it when we come back...may be drop a man inside to sit at the bottom just to show that there is a way to go that deep...
think more...
what would happen when a human being dies...not sure...he'd turn invisible? If not then we could use dead humans to make things visible. Tie some human material all over something and it would be visible. We could make roads, vehicles, tools everything visible like this. But not sure.
What about other living creatures on the earth. We couldn't see them. We'd be killed easily. Horrifying to see eaten human remains inside another animal.
we wouldn't know what seeing anything else means. What if we were a blind species?
Our concept of reality is formed by what we sense...and an extrapolation into what we cannot...and sometimes our theories and numbers too lead us to such conclusions which we cannot sense...to be verified when we might develop the power to sense them one day...directly or indirectly...
what about now? Are we seeing the reality? Are the 5 senses the only possible ways to sense anything? What are our limitations? I don't know if these questions can be answered...There could be a lot going on right in front of us, which we are unable to perceive...There could be something beyond mathematics, physics and chemistry that governs things...
I close my eyes, I see dots...lots of them.
As I looked afar, there were more people...all hanging in space. All seemed to be doing something. The hands, legs, bodies moved in weird fashions. I thought a little more...
I could not see the earth as well, there was no sky, no stars...The earth was a huge bunch of people hanging in space. There was something round in between, the earth itself, invisible, that separated people from one end of the globe and the other...from falling towards each other. I am not sure whether my eyes have the ability too see people so far away as the people at the other diametric end of the earth. There definitely was a spherical barrier I could notice as I looked down coz there were no people below that.
My hands could feel a lot of things...I could feel a box in front of me...A chair underneath...I got up...Nobody noticed me...I could see everyone...I tried to walk a little...people under me, people above me...I felt there was a path between 2 rows of people...I walked along that...I hit a wall...I turned...
A friend of mine, let's call him Shoonya...I told him everything about the limitations of my vision...He put things to eat in my hand...I ate them...I had to survive...He guided me when I had to move on the road...Saved me from being hit by vehicles...I did what he told me to...I ate what he gave me, I shit where he asked me to...I drank invisible water...
Then I started wondering, what if Shoonya wasn't there...what if there was no one like Shoonya...what if everyone was like me...I pondered more on that...
We would all have been humans hanging loosely in space...that's from the visibility point of view...but our sense of touch told us that there is a lot out here...and around...
Not sure how we would have evolved under those circumstances.
We wud never have had paper, pens, the wheel...at least in the visible form. I guess wheel could still have found a use...we cud have vehicles...invisible vehicles...moving on invisible roads...made smooth...what wud we get when we dig...go on digging...u go deep down...earth that can be seen through...the sense of touch would tell us that the temperature increases as u go deep...we'll have to stop beyond a point...could be a confusing situation...we dig a ditch...we cannot really see it...how do we spot it when we come back...may be drop a man inside to sit at the bottom just to show that there is a way to go that deep...
think more...
what would happen when a human being dies...not sure...he'd turn invisible? If not then we could use dead humans to make things visible. Tie some human material all over something and it would be visible. We could make roads, vehicles, tools everything visible like this. But not sure.
What about other living creatures on the earth. We couldn't see them. We'd be killed easily. Horrifying to see eaten human remains inside another animal.
we wouldn't know what seeing anything else means. What if we were a blind species?
Our concept of reality is formed by what we sense...and an extrapolation into what we cannot...and sometimes our theories and numbers too lead us to such conclusions which we cannot sense...to be verified when we might develop the power to sense them one day...directly or indirectly...
what about now? Are we seeing the reality? Are the 5 senses the only possible ways to sense anything? What are our limitations? I don't know if these questions can be answered...There could be a lot going on right in front of us, which we are unable to perceive...There could be something beyond mathematics, physics and chemistry that governs things...
I close my eyes, I see dots...lots of them.
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