photo: Andrew Kovalev
Imagine walking down the sidewalk on a nice summer day, enjoying the scenery and the sunshine all around you. Now imagine taking a visual picture of what you see in front of you and copying it. Take that copy and paste it diagonally up and to the right so that it overlaps half of the nice beautiful scene you are looking at. Now take that second copy and strip all the detail out of it and cover it with a thin layer of milky water. While you are at it, put a big smudge on anything that ends up in the centre of the picture and add distortion to anything that might be a straight line. I have this milky, distorted, hologram version of the world superimposed over my proper vision now and it sucks. And that’s not even the worst part, when I walk or drive I get the sense that the shitty hologram world is moving at me faster than the clear real world. For example, every morning when I walk from my parking spot to my office there are a series of tree shadows across the sidewalk and a set of two manholes that I walk over. As I approach the shadows and the manholes, I see double of everything, but as I get closer and closer to the real objects, the amount of the displacement of the second blurry pictures gets less and less to the point that they almost become one object as I pass over them. The fact that my double vision gets worse the further an object is away creates the illusion that the world on the right of me is coming at me twice as fast as the world on the left of me even though they are actually distorted pictures of the same thing.
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