pearly whites in the dark of night
i brushed my teeth last night. yea nothing special, right?
wrong. i brushed my teeth in the dark. now that is something quite different.
i opened the circuit - flipping the switch down with a satisfying click - and plunged into a world without light. then i closed my eyes to experience true darkness. after a few monotonous bristle strokes, i released my eyelids and saw a detailed silhouette of myself in the mirror. i was not aware that a silhouette could have fine details, but mine did. that is the difference between light scattering off physical objects, and shading a figure completely black with paint or graphite. the photons whizzing through my bathroom window at 186000 miles per second bounced around like an acid-fueled game of pong. when they ricocheted off my face and finally onto my rods and cones i could distinguish the outlines of my nose, lips and various other facial features. no camera could reproduce the subtleties of this scene. disregarding the fact that this barrage of light waves/particles was already more than eight minutes old since it left the scorching gaseous surface of our closest star, i wondered why i ever kept the lights on while performing such menial washroom tasks. within the first few dozen months of this life i was able to rely on a common hand-eye-coordination that many humans take for granted. the ability to blindly touch my nose or scratch an itch is purely a miracle of nature. whether or not the phrase “miracle of nature” is loaded with enough oxymoronic wordplay to start a new religion remains to be seen. every person with a semi-functional brain-stem has a certain innate self-awareness that facilitates such extraordinary actions. this is exactly why roadside sobriety tests contain examinations of this gift. this ability is recognized as a large part of consciousness and any failure to display said self-awareness is a sure sign of temporary - if not permanent - mental dysfunction. this topographical image we have of our bodies is the closest approximation to a “sixth sense” we can ask for. it is much more challenging and enjoyable to maintain dental hygiene while immersed in the mental clarity of visual ambiguity.
wrong. i brushed my teeth in the dark. now that is something quite different.
i opened the circuit - flipping the switch down with a satisfying click - and plunged into a world without light. then i closed my eyes to experience true darkness. after a few monotonous bristle strokes, i released my eyelids and saw a detailed silhouette of myself in the mirror. i was not aware that a silhouette could have fine details, but mine did. that is the difference between light scattering off physical objects, and shading a figure completely black with paint or graphite. the photons whizzing through my bathroom window at 186000 miles per second bounced around like an acid-fueled game of pong. when they ricocheted off my face and finally onto my rods and cones i could distinguish the outlines of my nose, lips and various other facial features. no camera could reproduce the subtleties of this scene. disregarding the fact that this barrage of light waves/particles was already more than eight minutes old since it left the scorching gaseous surface of our closest star, i wondered why i ever kept the lights on while performing such menial washroom tasks. within the first few dozen months of this life i was able to rely on a common hand-eye-coordination that many humans take for granted. the ability to blindly touch my nose or scratch an itch is purely a miracle of nature. whether or not the phrase “miracle of nature” is loaded with enough oxymoronic wordplay to start a new religion remains to be seen. every person with a semi-functional brain-stem has a certain innate self-awareness that facilitates such extraordinary actions. this is exactly why roadside sobriety tests contain examinations of this gift. this ability is recognized as a large part of consciousness and any failure to display said self-awareness is a sure sign of temporary - if not permanent - mental dysfunction. this topographical image we have of our bodies is the closest approximation to a “sixth sense” we can ask for. it is much more challenging and enjoyable to maintain dental hygiene while immersed in the mental clarity of visual ambiguity.
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