Will-Enhanced Senses
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| Cave Creek, Arizona |
Weird Theory
Imagine being able to focus the lens of your two eyes independent of one another, and, with each eye individually, you could focus across multiple, minute areas of the entire lens to get an infinitely varied, and dynamic, surface profile - like, being able to dynamically, directly shape multiple tiny lenses across the surface of the one large lens.
In an extreme instance, you could see like a spider sees - you could have spider-like vision.
[Oops - unspoken assumption: the shape of the lens of the human eye determines how the visual field appears to you in self-consciousness.]
An essential difference between the spider and what I'm trying to describe, though, is that, for the spider, the quality of their field of vision is fixed by the fixed nature of their eyes. What I'm imagining is to be able to dynamically, fluidly, instantaneously change the shape of the lens of the eyes, at will.
What happens then is that I can focus my eyes, at will, anywhere in the space between me and the object I'm looking at, rather than always only on a particular object.
That sounds weird, and trivial, until you try it. Stare at something that's about 1.5 to 2 feet away. Then slowly draw the focus of your eyes slowly toward yourself. Your eyes, of course, are slowly turning toward one another and being cross-eyed, but before you get to that point, the field of view warps and bends.
If you're looking at your computer monitor for this exercise, play a video or animation of some sort, full-screen, and then again, look at the monitor, and slowly draw your focus toward yourself. As you do, see if you notice the visual quality and experience of the video changing.
If you can learn to become more and more flexible and capable of focusing your eyes at will this way, then imagine an advanced stage where you can make the surface of the eye lens ripple, dip, wave, curve convexly, concavely, flatten, hold, relax, at will, based on the same instincts and muscle control we use now to shift focus from a near to a far object (which we do constantly, but habitually and mostly unconsciously, not deliberate and willfully).
Kinda like this:
Fade To Error No. 02 from umberto daina on Vimeo.
Try this out while watching a music visualizer on your computer (I use Milk Drop 2 music visualizations integrated into Winamp):
Arbitrarily shift the focus of your eyes at any point between your eyes and the surface of the monitor. Hold your focus at any point you want. As you shift back and forth, you'll cross a line at which the visualization on the screen will pop out, spread out, drop back deep into infinity, almost like magic.
The visually apparent depth of field will magically telescope, so that you can distinctly see layers and layers and layers of sharp detail that weren't there before.
Now imagine being able to do the same with sound - dynamically 'focus' and tune your hearing, to enhance or silence or zoom in on particular regions, features, time intervals of the audio environment, in real time, consciously, deliberately.
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