About This Story
The senses are strange. Human life produces these various impressions that impinge on the consciousness. They present themselves as accurate representations of the world.
But they are not.
In fact, those impressions aren’t even accurate representations of the senses.
One example of this is that the human eye doesn’t see color in the periphery. But objects you see from the corner of your eye still seem to have the right color.
We ‘see’ color in the periphery, but not because our eyes are receiving that color light. The mind is making its best guess.
The experiment in the story is one I had a roommate help me with, because I found these facts so incredible. Over the years, I’ve been thinking about it off and on.
This story is the fruit of treating those ‘colors’ at the periphery as a metaphor for people at the periphery.
I’ve also been thinking a lot about Tiffany lamps.