Of Windows and Light

 

Look deep into my eye. 

You are getting very thirsty, no?

Sleepy?
Itchy?
Board with my weirdness?

Well, this is a place to publish musings, so a musing I shall go. 

Just for a while.

Our eyes are amazing and very complex machines. 

Tonight, I'm interested in just a few ideas regarding them.

What are they?

If we live by metaphors, then perhaps they are containers for emotions. Giving examples of word usage to illustrate what eyes might truly mean to us, George Lakoff and Mark Johnson shed light on how we view them: "I could see the fear in his eyes. His eyes were filled with anger. There was passion in her eyes. His eyes displayed his compassion. Love showed in his eyes. Her eyes welled with emotion." (103)

What is 'in' yours?
Or, are they instead windows to your soul? 

As expressive as they can be, I believe you can learn a great deal by looking at them. However, if you look too deeply, the only thing you might learn is how irritated a person can become by being stared at.  

Also, as a warning, vicious dogs will most likely believe you are hostile and attack you if you try to look into their windows deeply (The Dog Whisperer website).

Can we see without them?

Strangely, yes.

“Our findings revealed that blind persons, including those blind from birth, do report classic Near Death Experiences (NDEs) of the kind common to sighted persons; that the great preponderance of blind persons claim to see during NDEs and Out of Body Experiences; and that occasionally claims of visually-based knowledge that could not have been obtained by normal means can be independently corroborated."  

Light exists even if we don't see it, and apparently our sight exists even if we can't use it bodily.  

Interesting to consider.  

Too deep for the moment.  

Let me refocus.

Are there aliens floating in mine?

Maybe.  "Eye floaters" are deposits or condensation in the vitreous jelly of the eye. People use the term eye floaters to describe seeing floating spots within their vision when they look around. Eye floaters may be present in only one eye or both eyes."  I like to think of these little floaties as allies for some purpose.  When in meetings or other moments when whimsy beckons, I admit to making them dance and slide around to my own choreographed imaginings.  My own placid coup.

Not Quite Academic Notes:

Lakoff, George and Mark Johnson. "Metaphors We Live By." Illinois: University Of Chicago Press, 103

Medicine.net.  2010. Medicine.net, Inc.

 

Ring, Kenneth Ph.D. and Sharon Cooper, M.A. "Near-Death and Out-of-Body Experiences in the Blind: A Study of Apparent Eyeless Vision." Journal of Near-Death Studies, 1997: 1

The Dog Whisperer. 2005.