Well I was wandering around my school today and felt the need to write, the only problem was I had no idea what to write about. I found the only answer to the solution was to ask a complete stranger and see what they thought an interesting topic would be. The answer? A monochromatic existence. Now at first this sounds like a very complicated topic of choice, I mean that is a large scientific word, yet in reality it simply means to live in a black and white world. At least that is what wikipedia told me. Anyways, the thought of living in a black and white world brings only one thought to my mind, indifferent.
Imagine living in a world where the only "colors" that can be perceived by the human eyes are black and white, maybe some shades of gray in there as filler. Would our lives really be any different from what they are now? Sure, the aesthetic qualities of our art we produce may be a little lackluster, but can we actually say that? All we know are the shades that the colors of black and white show us, thus our art in theory would be of the same quality we now produce. We just would be ignorant and naive to the fact that the actual color spectrum did not exist to us. Sure if all of a sudden we lost our ability to observe colors and were stuck in a monochromatic existence then we would certainly feel the loss, but that's not what we are discussing. We are discussing birth and death in that monochromatic existence without the slightest thought of colors existing. I doubt our minds could even understand the thought of what a "color" was or even looked like. For some reason I find this hilarious.
We are constantly learning and understanding further the world that surrounds us. Hell, hundreds of years ago we thought the world was flat, that sickness was caused by a curse and not pathogens, and the simple thought of molecules would have had you locked up as insane. This thought of a monochromatic existence makes me think about what it is we currently are missing in our modern age world. The fourth dimension for example. What is it? Or time. What the hell is time? Right now we live in a world where we feel like we understand so much, yet there is so much more. For all I know, we could be living in a pseudo monochromatic world, yet my mind just cannot fathom the thought. Which brings another interesting thought to mind, what if the reality I perceive is not the true reality everyone else perceives? Regardless, this blog was just a test to see if I could actually write about a completely random topic, hope it suffices. I'll write about something else tonight, until then, keep smiling.
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What is this shit
Hey Dale, if you haven't yet, read the book The Giver by Lois Lowry
I think one's reality is most definitely their perception of reality - but there is no point in trying to chase it. It's like chasing one's tail, the real reason it can't be done for a small pup is because it always moves when you do. Our perceptions are dynamic - this even relates back to the gender binary actually - we aren't male or female, unless we are restricting ourselves unnecessarily - we are free to flow from each degree to another. If you do get a hold of that oh so elusive perception though, hold on tight and get a good look, because when it moves next, I'm willing to bed that it's going to change more than ever!
I guess what I'm trying to say is, an accident could happen and you could go colorblind, or one could take a huge hit of acid or DMT and possibly see colors they've never seen before - I've read several first-hand reports before on Erowid. We all DO see color differently. My eye's color difference actually CHANGES. Sometimes, when I look through one eye and then the other, there is no color change but only the slight positional changes from my eye's physically different locations, but on some days, it's like taking a picture in photoshop and running a cool or warm filter on it, like a blue or yellow/orange. A floor might look more of a clean slightly bluish white to the right eye, and milky cream to the left. My contacts also seem to dry at different rates too, wild stuff, wild stuff.
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