Ludicrous or commonplace? Let me know if you've seen them too!
When I was young, I had this wonderful habit of watching clouds. The cumulus, stratus, cirrus... They could exactly represent what's on your mind, including its state. I felt that nature was trying to communicate something to me as I indulged in this pursuit.
And one day, when I was about four, I saw some circular objects floating in the air. They were small, about half a centimeter in diameter and transparent. One could barely make out their existence through their edges and presence of two-concentric circles. What a sight! It was absolutely mesmerizing! How did they come to be all of a sudden? I was curious and some more when I realised that they were following my line of vision! They glided, danced, swayed, and left me pondering over their existence!
To me, that was the sky sending out signals!
A few years later, in Biology class, I learnt about round-shaped bacteria or cocci. They looked so uncannily similar to my signals! Yikes! Could I see microbes, then? Was I blessed with some sort of a microscopic vision?
My questions were answered when I realised I could not even figure out who was sitting beside me in class! With metallic rims sitting on my nose, I dismissed the idea of being a walking-talking electron microscope.
I didn't spare Newton either. These have to be corpuscles, then! I was euphoric! Until I heard of the Wave Theory!
The cocci signals appear even today. Only difference being, I am now old enough to imagine these blobs and acknowledge the imagination (if I did imagine, that is, but which is not the case) and yet, human enough, to remain curious to decipher their presence.
Ludicrous or commonplace? Let me know if you've seen them too!
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12 comments:
hehee..interesting post....I wonder how could u narrate so descriptively of something that you had seen in ur age of four....... :)
That apart, i cant visualize what you had seen..so could not really comment on whether i had seen it too............ but enakkum sila samayam...etho onnu mela irunthu keezha drop aagara maathiri theriyum.... not circular definitely....this is more of linear, curvy..... forget it..i could not even describe that :)
btw.... content ah vida nee ezhuthirukara vitham romba shokka keedhu :)
@ Sabji
Thanks ra! I see these things even today. That's why can describe them vividly. Looks like am not alone in this. The eyes play tricks on us all ... all the time! :)
You should be a scientist..what are you upto!! :)
@ Peru
I wish! But, Science is fortunate ;)
i think its the mind that sees things..
Oh i love staring into the clouds even today... can get so totally lost in it.... and yep, love taking pics of the sky/clouds toooo :D
how are the clouds out there in Slough??? ;)
@ Laksh
I agree :)
@ Aaartz
H.m.m... Dark grey - most of the time ;)
yeah, my friend and I used to fight over it. he called it water vapour and ppl with good eye sight only can c, but Im bespec’d n can see it much better, i remember, used to focus on it and trace its path during the school assembly. Nostalgic:)
@ Quartyc
Lol! I like this version too - a water vapour :D
But, seriously, can you describe what you see? Coz you said "...can see it much better" wondering if there is something more mesmerising to it than what actually meets my eye :)
!!!! i thot i was an unique specimen who sees things like this :D guess got company :D enga veetu mirrorla i used to watch out for these small small objects trying to make out their shapes..bio labla microscope vitu varavay maaten..it was so fascinating to watch those tiny tiny things blown up big :)
hey first time here :) gargling garbage!! u r not definitely :) read ur other posts too...nice writeup
Hey,
I could totally relate to that. I first saw them when I was four, and thought that they were faeries with wings :P
Later I found the reason. Turns out that you have this fluid in your eye called the vitreous humor behind the lens but in front of the retina. Your bio course must have covered the fact that the retina's the screen, right. So the airy floating stuff is just the viscous vitreous humor moving around that gets caught on the screen. Mystery solved!
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