Today I woke up early to cheer on two of my friends as they
ran a marathon through good ole Peoria, Illinois. Whilst outside playing my
tambourine and cheering for the passing runners, I wore some sunglasses. I was
outside all morning and the sun was out, so naturally I threw on some shades.
Wearing sunglasses all morning reaffirmed something I’ve already thought
before: whenever I wear sunglasses, I feel like I’m living in an alternate
reality where nothing is actually real. (What?)
I’ve concluded that whenever my perception of reality is
altered visually, I feel like everyone else’s visual perception is off too, so
nothing is real and we don’t actually exist for a little while. I wear
glasses/contacts, and whenever I meander about without my eyewear, everything
is fuzzy and seems kind of distant. For whatever reason, I then think that
everyone else sees me as I am seeing them, and since I’m seeing everything in a
very muffled way and everyone else is too, we are actually not existing normally in
the world. I have this same mindset when I wear sunglasses.
Since having colored lenses in front of my face makes me see
the world differently than usual, my brain makes me feel very distant from
everything, as if I am looking through a cardboard box with a hole cut in the
middle with a panel of cellophane stretched over it. If normally I am 100% in
every situation I’m in, wearing sunglasses makes me feel about 70% in it, and the
other 30% is me in a dream world where nothing is actually happening for real.
I am incredibly aware that this is super strange, but I
thought it, and I wanted to share it, so there it is. Have a wonderful week and
visit your own dream world if you’d like.
Deuces gooses.
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