What is your present familiarity with collective memory?
Mostly genetic.
Stuff we’re “programmed” to do through DNA.
A notion of connection via the astral.
What is it to perceive something?
Usually through the senses.
To have sensory awareness of an object.
It has been established even in mainstream labs that what we perceive is more a matter of expectation and memory than immediate sensory processing. The amount of novel sense data we use in any given moment is comparatively sparse. Like a computer screen, even your field of vision is only slowly updated rather than a fresh stream of continuous ongoing data.
That’s why 30 frames a second looks smooth to us.
It would be a lot of work and energy to process everything as new all the time. Indeed. Stranger still, you don’t actually experience isolated streams of sensory information. You will hear what you expect to see for example, and will taste what you think something looks like it should taste. Any sensory impression is synthetic, sort of an organic syncretism. Psychological confabulation doesn’t start when you start thinking about things. Your very sense organs make stuff up.
Yea, if you change the sound, a video can have a very different effect. Stars in the eyes. Indeed, with temporary loss of hearing your visual scanning pattern is also impaired. It’s why trying to talk on a phone while you drive is so dangerous even f you are “hands free.”
I especially notice that at night, but only sometimes during the day do I recognize it (although it’s probably happening just as much).
I found just talking to a passenger was distracting. It can indeed be. If your imagination is constructing one image while your eyes are trying to process another, both pictures will suffer. This has also been proven in the lab.
When my hearing was recently muffled (after hearing loud noise) I perceived the city as quiet and slower then normal. And everything seems quieter at night. When my ear ‘popped’ it went back to normal.
Your eyes were probably taking in twice as much data.
Wouldn’t things be faster and busier then?
No, if a camera is running at twice the rate, that’s how you get slow mo video.
I can easily relate to what was said. After I lost my cochlear nerves, I had to compensate through “expected” tactile sensations to get my balance, as well as “expected” sight… Some very unusual “perceptions” woke me up, as it were.
Your thoughts are welcome. Be well friends.
Travis Saunders
Dragon Intuitive
~science,mysticism,spirituality~