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Black Sun

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There is talk of a black sun, it features in paintings and in architecture from a time gone by, comes up as ideas and theories and find its way into our modern time. Also having been attributed to the Nazi’s in more recent times, a sun wheel symbol with a design consists of twelve radial sig runes, 12 sections and a black centre. Almost looking like a slightly older version of the modern UN logo with its sections and decoration giving it a more Romanesque feel.

Sound Garden – that song from the 90’s ‘Black Hole Sun’, showing strange lizard-like humans, with faces distorting and revealing their hidden nature, along with the arrival of the black sun. The music video to it made quite the impact on me in my youth, some things you see are weird, and you know they are weird, but something makes you file it for later. And as it turns out, ‘later’ has arrived much more than I thought it would for many thoughts and ideas I have had over the years.

Demon faces – there exists a condition apparently, which causes people to see faces as distorted with what has been described as demon like features. It’s called Prosopometamorphopsia (PMO), and seems a rather weird thing for some brains to do. They say often caused by a stroke, a seizure or a migraine. But does everyone think to tell someone else if they started seeing ‘demons’? This is where the above music video will get a mention again, because when the faces distorted, it was more of an elongation of features, which could just be the visual effect they were trying out at the time. Eyes larger than you would expect, a sinister grin bigger than the face, and strange automated and repeated actions, showing they are here but aren’t like us. A bit Stepford kind of thing. But when I saw the imagery they are putting forward for this PMO condition, I thought of that song and those faces. Because wouldn’t be an awfully easy way to discredit if people did have the ability to see demons or shapeshifters, making them out to be crazy, or that they have a brain injury or something. Even possibly making the people themselves think they are crazy.

Rupes Nigra / Black Rock – this also comes up now and again, having been charted on old maps as a real place, a mountain it is said. Placed where the North Pole is, shown as having land and the central point on old maps, but it looks like just ocean today, but with a round shape showing as it would if you took something flat and wrapped it around a globe. But it also near to where I found old maps to show the vortex mentioned in Maps and Islands.

Much has been changed, rewritten, buried, relocated, and just plain destroyed or lost to time. But much of what was, often comes to pass again, and much of what is will become new folklore and myth and fade away until its time comes again. It seems as though we are entering a different time, where things of old might be coming back, and how we thought it was turns out to be something quite different…

(c) K Wicks

Petrified

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The petrified forest in Arizona. An entire ancient petrified forest with evidence of it lying all around and cover a vast area. I have looked at it before online, but hadn’t previously noticed the shape of it until scanning from above quite a way around one area. A dark area that looked funnily, like the outline of a tree stump but huge. Giving rise to more thoughts towards the talk of old times, of fantastical times when things were much bigger and maybe a bit more magical. Giant trees come up now and again online, and Devils Tower is put forward as one as discussed in A Giant Debate.

But as with lots of things, there are Stone Cold Mysteries out there. And using our eyes is a big part of how we look to solve things. Nobody seemed to have a problem with Sherlock Holmes seeing patterns and linking things together to solve a puzzle or crime. But when it comes to other people, it gets asked whether we see Patterns or Pareidolia?

It’s not just forests though that have apparently been discovered as being petrified. There is also talk of a petrified city in Africa, although not substantiated by much else apart from this article snippet from the 1800’s –

And while there is much under the surface and taken by time and the landscape, it seems there is still a fair amount to see and wonder about on the surface. With what appears to be evidence all over the world of quite cataclysmic events occurring here and there over time. Those events can also bring about new discoveries, as just our ‘normal’ weather can with constant rock falls along the Jurassic coast revealing fossils and a previous era, it does the same for other things hidden. Earthquakes, storms and hurricanes, excessive water flow and anything else that gets thrown at the land and what we have built on it, either survives the onslaught, or it changes everything around it, as we have seen with the recent terrible aftermath of storm Helene in North Carolina and other states. Recent history gets buried and covered, the current time is changed, and a new landscape is carved almost in an instant with rivers finding a new path temporarily and taking everything with it, lives, homes, trees, wildlife and even the land itself gets swept away. We are an industrious species and can overcome many things, even having to constantly contend with our own kind trying to derail and hamper things, but when it comes to nature sometimes the only thing you can do, is try your best to get out of its way…

(c) K Wicks

Seeing Colours

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What we believe we see seems to be a matter for debate. And although I was aware that people have differences in depth perception, and perceive colours differently to a point, I believed if you weren’t deemed colour-blind, then we all pretty much saw the same ‘colours’. There is also the subject of colour synaesthesia, where people will ‘see’ colours for things that you wouldn’t ordinarily have the need or ability to assign a colour for, but when hearing the word, letter or concept, the brain conjures a colour to accompany it. Of course, there are probably varying degrees of that as well, and until someone talks about it, or mentions it as a thing, they may just presume everyone does it. Same with Aphantasia and Hyperphantasia, discussed more closely in my book – Meeting in the Middle of Nowhere, of some people not having visual imagery in mind or an internal monologue. Sounds like a routine thing to acknowledge or understand, but when it’s discussed in real time from each perspective, the real differences in thought processes can be startling.

But it seems there are all sorts of other smaller differences going on too, that most of us still aren’t even aware of. So subtle or unnoticeable that they never get brought up or mentioned as a point of discussion, as it would seem as boring as walking up to someone and trying to start an interesting conversation by observing they have arms. Now, if everyone else was armless, then it may be a conversation starter, but we don’t walk around asking people if they see a blue sky if it’s a clear day. You’ll comment perhaps on that nice day, but not usually to clarify that the other person is also seeing a blue sky. Although, maybe we should be. The below picture is from a documentary I watched recently, and was quite surprised by two things about this image. Firstly, that there is only one colour in the image, and the ‘other colours’ aren’t actually there and your brain is filling it in for you. That confuses my brain, because I believe I am seeing four colours, but the second strange thing, was when the arrangement of colours was read out to go with the image, it did not match what I was seeing, they say the arrangement is as follows –

Top left = red / Top right = blue / Bottom left = green or aqua / Bottom right = orange

However, it is also seen as –

Top left = green or aqua / Top right = orange / Bottom left = red / Bottom right = blue

Yet the only colour available they say, is grey. Quite an odd one, and if there wasn’t a difference when the person on the screen casually explained the ‘colours’ being presented, I wouldn’t have wondered any further than the grey to colour aspect. Now I question how each brain is deciding to rearrange those ‘colours’ and see them differently to another brain. Does using the right or left side of the brain more dominantly determine whether the image colours are seen in reverse? Seems there really can be more to something than meets the eye…

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