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Sight
Narymen Abessi
'La vie en rose' Is a French Song that describes the way a person in love sees the world, the song says they see it in pink, well of course it’s a metaphor. Although people with high doses of happiness neurotransmitters in their blood system, such as dopamine and endorphin; literally see the world more colorful.On the contrary, people going through dark periods perceive it poor of colors and beauty, and it’s not a manner of speaking.
Do these neurotransmitters stimulate the eye cones and increase their ability to perceive more colors? Possible...
Okay folks, let’s think outside the box for a while.. Let’s throw the damn stupid box somewhere where it can’t be found. now let’s analyze things:
If seeing colors is relative to our feelings, then it’s systematically relative to our thoughts, therefore to our perspective. A person’s perspective is his way of regarding situations, facts and judging their relative importance. It depends on the environment, he lives in, his cultural basis, level of knowledge and mostly his level of consciousness. Long story short: it depends on his mind.
Since It’s impossible to find two cloned minds, then it’s obvious to say: it’s impossible to find two identical perspectives; similar yes but never the same. That means it exists 7,4 billion different perspectives, a damn huge number!
Now what if perspective is not only the angle from which we analyze the world relatively to our thoughts and emotions, but also literally relates to the received image of the outer world: to our individual vision. What if we really don’t see the same things, the same colors and light. A hell of a lot of things we’re probably not perceiving the same way. It’s mind blowing if you deeply think about it yet so confusing..
In spiritual philosophy the say ‘’the eye is the window of the soul”. Indeed, without sight, soul is left seeking a phantom of the outer world image, trying to translate it with the rest of the senses. It’s true that seeing things doesn’t require that much of an effort, but still, the sight is a hell of a mysterious sense. After all, no one can exactly know how’s the other perceiving things unless they borrow each other’s eyeballs and the whole optical system which is impossible and gross! Sight is a personal intimate experience.
One of the things that makes me curious the most is colors. Can somebody describe a color? I don’t think so.They taught us in kindergarten color names and how making the difference between them but how can I know for sure that the red color I’m seeing is the same one you do?
Recent researches say: women are able to distinguish more shades of colors than men, Artists and people working in painting and design domain have the ability to notice the difference between closer colors and shades than the average people. And finally they discovered a genetic mutation in eye cones called tetrachromacy that is still understudied, Scientifics suggest that their fourth extra cone cell might be the reason they see more colors than “normal”.
I’ve always been a huge fan of the human brain, but the truth is told; he can be a hell of a tricky bastard sometimes. And I’m calling it a “he” because come on he deserves the damn “he”. Once he finds himself unable to understand a fact, his ego drives him nuts and he begins doing his nasty work. He’s good at filling an information that is not actually there. Our brain perceives the visible world around us and construct our individual reality; as Bergson said:’’The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend."
The question left is: should we keep trusting our own brain? Is it better not to see what we’re not able to see? Just to think about this scares the hell out of me.. It’s some serious shit not to trust his own brain!
We Hear about Some people’s personal experience after consuming a certain amount of psychedelic substances, saying they saw astonishing colors and shapes they never saw before. Even with the power of imagination ,the brain can’t be the inventor of these visual informations; because the brain needs a base, a memory of something he has been taught before, to help him build the imagined experience. Plus, I don’t think there’s a place on earth where they teach people how to enlarge their visible light spectrum.
Whatever the cause is, whatever the amount of difference and permanence is; I deeply believe we don’t have the same visual experience, but some questions bring up answers, others brings bigger scarier questions..
What I see of this world, is it the real thing? Is "real "even a question on this matter? Or has it always been a matter of multiple explanations of everything, all real, all true?
But here’s a better question: Who’s the lucky bastard seeing the best version of this world? I want to meet him..
Narymen Abessi
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