The Nobody shares a very interesting post. (Thank You!) On how the darkness in a dark room, in which he could see the outlines of things and such because his eyes were used to the dark, seem to grow darker in intensity when he switched on a torch, which only ever lit up selected areas.
Never mind the optical quantifications of this, but methinks he really hit onto something beautiful! Any situation is something we get accustomed to over time. But contrast it with a different set of parameters (how do I best express this?) and the same old situation appears more intense than it was before. You may be slightly bored. Something exciting happens, and afterwards the boredom you might return to seems twice as awful. You might be lonely in your life. (Or not, but alone nonethless) Then you have some or other romance or other social encounters, and when they leave your life, the same aloneness strikes you as that much worse than before... When the days are good, and you run into trouble, you tend to think of those "good days" as that much better.
Do we just distort things? Either way, it is good to remember that our perception of things changes* when we have something else to compare them to. And as for light and dark, goodness, yes. Who doesn't know the deepening of the shadow with the increase in light intensity... So it is.
Thank you for that post!
(((*What is the Difference between what is Reality and our Perception thereof?)))
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I was thinking about it all day, I was dancing around the edge of a reason for why I wanted to post that image. you got it in one :)
ReplyDeleteyour blog is awesome!