Not a Fucking Diary: Slug vision and acid trips

Tuesday, September 06, 2005

Slug vision and acid trips

Have you ever felt something beyond your senses? Ever thought of someone you haven’t seen in years all day and saw them that same day? Ever gotten a “bad vibe” from a place? Ever sensed someone needed your help and later discovered that at the time they were in trouble? I wonder if this is a new sense humans are developing. A sense like sight, sound, and the other three.
If you examine primitive life, like slugs for example, you will see they have much less acuity to their senses. Slugs have vision, but it is very limited. The resolution isn’t there. They can tell the approximate direction of a light source, or maybe detect a wall, but they can’t distinguish a table from a human from a tree. Their sight is not developed to same level as ours. They can’t derive as much information from their sight as we can from ours. So I wonder if humans are in the primitive stages of developing a new sense, a way to sense feelings or danger or opportunity.
Anyone that has ever been on an acid trip will tell you they pick up “vibes”. One thinks they can sense the feelings of those around them. I remember several years ago I had an OVERWHELMING feeling that I should get in touch with my friend Tom. I felt very uneasy, like something terrible was pending. I couldn’t understand why, I had not seen or spoken to him in several weeks. I called his home number and his father answered and told me he was out of state. I said I would contact him later because it was late at night and I didn’t want to wake the people he was staying with. He said “I am sure he would really love to hear from you.” I passed again saying I would call him tomorrow. “It’s really not too late, you should give him a call.” So finally I asked the number where he was staying and called him. No answer. I gave up, telling myself I would call tomorrow and see how he was. Well, the next day I was told he killed himself that night.
I felt like I had failed, even though I had no way of knowing it would happen. The feeling of urgency was so intense that I felt almost like someone HAD told me what would happen. Ever since then I have been fairly convinced there is some higher plane of reality or at least some part of the universe we haven’t fully considered because we cannot clearly sense it.
People might say we would be able to detect such a force with all our modern instrumentation. But all our instrumentation merely extends the range of our current senses. Force sensors extend our sense of touch, microphones extend hearing, and any kind of electromagnetic sensor extends our sense of sight. But what instrument detects something we cannot sense at least indirectly? I can’t think of any. Even a compass isn’t special; humans have iron compounds in their nose which give us a sense of direction. So maybe thousands of years from now people will have the hardware needed to detect other people’s emotions and maybe more.

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