View Full Version : Seeing in Digital-"Real-Life" Pixelation
I apologise if this has been covered on this forum already, but I wanted to ask you all has anyone ever seen with their human eye's in digital?
I have had 3 experiences of this only in the past year, never before in my life and it only seems to last a few seconds or micro seconds. It usually starts like this, I will be outside, on the streets walking along, not interested in anything inparticular, I was once having a conversation with a friend when it happened. I was just generally looking around me, when I noticed that, down one road it looked a bit blurry- I looked closer, and what was a man and his child, sort of melted into a pixelated version of the scene, a bit like when you are watching digital TV, and something happens to the signal and you can see the pixels in the picture, or when you Zoom in on a picture on the computer till you can see the pixels. That's about the best description I can give, there is also a time element involved in this i.e. time seems a bit stretched, I am still having a 'normal' time conversation when it all happens, and the actual subject matter doesn't seem to have any importance at all, but it has always been people I have been looking at when it's happened. I was sober and drug free when it happened.
I just want to know if it has happened to anyone else, and what people make of it. Please help if you can with descriptions or ideas.
kblood
28-08-2007, 10:49 PM
Cant say I have. But I look at a computer screen so many hours a day, that I probably would not notice anyway :p
Ever heard of the show Pure Pwnage? A guy in the show is called FPS Doug, and he says that he did think about joining the army. But he heard they like didnt have any respawn points! So when you die IRL you would not even respawn. Also the possiblity of lag must be pretty high with these high detail graphics :D And then it is like game over, if you get hit by IRL lag.
I do not believe our world to be digital in the Matrix way. I do believe that everything is relative though. Therefore everything can be measured in some way, and has some kind of balance. Knowing these balances, makes them easier to tip one way or the other. In the end it also makes it easier to look through what we see with out eyes, and become able to see the things that a written "between" the lines.
As I see it, thinking of our world as a matrix world, is not about believing everything that we see to be fake. It is about seeing everything we do not see, isnt fake. That even though we do not believe in Santa Claus, there might still be 1000s of fat men in red suits with cheery "Hohohoes" all over the world, actually spreading happiness and joy in the spirit of Santa Claus.
Same goes for all the negatives though, and that is the part we do not like to accept and see. The part I am quite happy about, is that we do not really have to worry about the negatives. The negatives are well balanced as well :)
kblood
28-08-2007, 10:55 PM
By the way... what kind of TVs do you watch? What kinds of computer monitors do you use? I believe it might be the crappy refresh rates, or maybe the too high refresh rates, might do something to our eyes.
After all, it is not uncommon for us to view at computer screens and TVs and other kinds of monitors in every day life. I think I have had the same feeling as you have had. Might have had something to do with time stopping for a short while. Maybe time around you slowing down or speeding up. The clock of the mind if you will. I believe time can be manipulated by our mind, just like we would see in the matrix. Think about it. Is it only our adrenaline that makes exciting events seem to go slower?
cyberdaemon
31-08-2007, 02:14 AM
Ive seen the real world "as if it was rendered by computer" a few times , back then i was playing 10 or more hours a day , lol.Ive also seen that "matrix screensaver" thing on the place of a real world image.
As I see it, thinking of our world as a matrix world, is not about believing everything that we see to be fake. It is about seeing everything we do not see, isnt fake. That even though we do not believe in Santa Claus, there might still be 1000s of fat men in red suits with cheery "Hohohoes" all over the world, actually spreading happiness and joy in the spirit of Santa Claus.
Same goes for all the negatives though, and that is the part we do not like to accept and see. The part I am quite happy about, is that we do not really have to worry about the negatives. The negatives are well balanced as well :)
First off i dont think he meant "everything is fake" when he posted this thread.So things being fake or not is out of the subject in here.And what is real or not is depending on what do you believe and wand to see as a real things.And it does not matter in the end , you can play games knowing they are not real , but enjoy it.You watch movies and even if you know its just CG graphics and some blue screen effects you still enjoy it.The point is , if you concentrate on something it will become real , at least for the very moment of concentration.
binhdinh_khiwarrior
31-08-2007, 06:35 PM
dimension shift?
kblood
31-08-2007, 10:20 PM
I agree with you cyberdaemon... I was mostly saying it to make sure he didnt. Seeing things like this might make you think otherwise though, so I was just trying to make sure.
As you wrote I do believe it has more to do with being at a computer screen for many hours in row, than the real world being made in "pixels". I cannot be sure though ;) Maybe we simply see the world more as it is, when we use digital screens too much? :rolleyes:
Oh well, philosophy aside. I do hope jp13 will answer himself as well, but I guess he might not be on the forum anymore. Only 5 posts total, maybe he was a bypasser?
I agree with you cyberdaemon... I was mostly saying it to make sure he didnt. Seeing things like this might make you think otherwise though, so I was just trying to make sure.
As you wrote I do believe it has more to do with being at a computer screen for many hours in row, than the real world being made in "pixels". I cannot be sure though ;) Maybe we simply see the world more as it is, when we use digital screens too much? :rolleyes:
Oh well, philosophy aside. I do hope jp13 will answer himself as well, but I guess he might not be on the forum anymore. Only 5 posts total, maybe he was a bypasser?
I hope I'm not a bypasser, but trying to work it out I think that perhaps having digital TV, Computer screens etc rammed down our throats to the virtual exclusion of any other type of image, then it's not impossible for the organic 'analog' brain (possibly both, or anything we want it to be) to start percieving 'real' events on the outside world in a digital way. We may be getting programmed subliminally or not but why this massive interest in all things 'digital' from media to science, the pixel by the way does not have to be square or rectilinear in form anyway, it could be a circle.
I wasn't talking about playing games or looking at a screen, what I experienced was when I was outdoors looking at actual "real" mundane events.
bazzybazzy
08-10-2007, 05:05 PM
hey there, i once smoked some skunk stuff :( And i basically kept seeing what you are describing there, everyone now and then it would zoom into what ever i was looking at and it would become pixelated! I shat myself when it happened and thought it was just some trip!
but your post has made me feel a bit better about it now :)