Being looked at

Knowing you are being looked at.

I spend a lot of time sitting around these days, watching the world go by. And, of course I am watching people. Many girls here are very beautiful, especially Latin girls. There are many Colombians in Lanzarote and I have a soft spot for the country and the people. My gaze is chaste but sometimes it lingers a little too long. And guess what? Sometimes the person looks around at me. This affect has been studied at length by Rupert Sheldrake and he runs tests in which we can all take part.

There must be something emanating from me, as well as the light which comes from the subject. It would seem that looking at something involves a two-way communication.

A further thought about what we see. Question: where is the image that we see when we look at a scene? Most is well-known science. The light enters our two eyes, an inverted image is projected onto the retinas and the image is transferred to the brain via the optic nerves. But then it becomes more mysterious. The brain creates an image based on what it receives via the optic nerves, but where is that image? Is it inside the skull or is it outside the skull? And, if it is outside our skull, then maybe other effects can occur outside the skull also?

Light, and vision are things we take for granted on a daily basis, but when we look more deeply into photons and the nature of light, things are not so clear! Maybe the phrase, “God is light” is not so far from the truth!