When I was younger I was fascinated by ants. I would crouch down and hover over them for what felt like hours. But I noticed that with so much movement it was hard to observe the whole system moving at once. I could only focus on one ant, one line or function at once. So I would stop moving completely, and I would try to still even my breathing. I would relax and try and unfocus on anything in particular, and instead focus on all the movement that I could easily see without straining my eyes. Eventually all the parts would come into focus and I could see the whole colony of ants.
I thought I had superpowers but I suppose it was just dilation in action.
It was still pretty cool
How very intimate the bodily sense is can be seen by performing a little experiment in your imagination. Think first of swallowing the saliva in your mouth, or do so. Then imagine expectorating it into a tumbler and drinking it! What seemed natural and ‘mine’ suddenly becomes disgusting and alien. Or picture yourself sucking blood from a prick in your finger; then imagine sucking blood from a bandage around your finger! What I perceive as belonging intimately to my body is warm and welcome; what I perceive as separate from my body becomes, in the twinkling of an eye, cold and foreign.
– Gordon W. Allport, Becoming: Basic Considerations for a Psychology of Personality, 1960
Greely Myatt -TALK MEMPHIS/say what, 2011 - David Lusk Gallery and The Running Horse via The Great God Pan is Dead
via lustik:
Oh, hey, I now this guy.
Gawd yes.
