the heat
pressing down
crowds
all around
why can't you let me go?
release me from your sweaty fingers
and let me slip into autumn's cool breeze
when will the cicada's song dissapate
back into my memories?
alongside the festivals and fireworks,
the song rings in my mind
Tuesday
Tuesday
When a Green Light is Blue
In Japan, they say that the green traffic light is actually blue.
Is it blue? Is it green?
Is it a matter of perception or simply a matter of discourse?
In high school, I met a guy named Chris Varga who had presented me with an interesting idea about the discernment of color. He believed that we do not dream in color, but only in black and white. He claimed that when we awake and recall our dream, we just associate color with the objects in our dream; for example, if you dreamt of an apple, you would remember the apple as being red because that is the color you associate with apples.
Do your eyes perceive things differently than mine? Does your mind perceive things differently, as well? Does your culture, environment, genetic dispostion, religious beliefs or the lingering effects of the night before affect the way you see the world around you and around me?
Whether a traffic light is blue or green does not really matter, but I can't stop from wondering...what do YOU see?
Is it blue? Is it green?
Is it a matter of perception or simply a matter of discourse?
In high school, I met a guy named Chris Varga who had presented me with an interesting idea about the discernment of color. He believed that we do not dream in color, but only in black and white. He claimed that when we awake and recall our dream, we just associate color with the objects in our dream; for example, if you dreamt of an apple, you would remember the apple as being red because that is the color you associate with apples.
Do your eyes perceive things differently than mine? Does your mind perceive things differently, as well? Does your culture, environment, genetic dispostion, religious beliefs or the lingering effects of the night before affect the way you see the world around you and around me?
Whether a traffic light is blue or green does not really matter, but I can't stop from wondering...what do YOU see?
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