Thursday, March 24, 2011


I'm thinking about something I can't understand because I can't understand that I'm thinking about it.

I can't understand that I'm thinking about things that I can't understand that I'm thinking about.

These statements came from a friend of mine after watching that video. After I watched it I was pretty much silent for several minutes. The general consensus after the video was how problematic it is that the only way to describe the dimensions "above" our own is to bring them down to terms we in this dimension can perceive. Sure it's the only way for us to understand these dimensions, how can we perceive something that doesn't exist in the only three dimensions we've ever known. That aspect of the video was incredibly successful. However, we can't truly grasp the concept for a tenth dimension, nor can we prove that dimension, while still existing in, or rather perceiving this realm that we currently know (for if these upper dimensions to indeed exist we surely exist in them).
A problem that I personally had with the video was the fact that all of the dimensions described were assumed to be all there was. Again, I remind you of my previous posts where I explored the idea of the self/soul existing in a real beyond the one our physical bodies reside and our minds perceive. This video doesn't even take this into account. Could that be considered an eleventh dimension? If so, this dimension would be completely different from the other ten. Ugh. This whole entry is hypothetical babble with no answers and no end in sight.
I'm not sleeping tonight. I probably have time to, but there's something interesting about being completely exhausted. Call it a sick experiment, but the feeling of true exhaustion is so organic and so raw that it excites me. I realize this is completely unrelated to the previous paragraphs and the video posted, I just feel it needed to be said.
It's mind blowing. I think of it in these terms: I exist, here I exist now, but in this hypothetical tenth dimension I exist all at once in every different way possible. Is the possibility that I never existed at all found in this dimension? Surely. But what really is the point in all of this? These dimensions don't really seem to be realms of any kind that we can understand. It's more of a what if game; The ultimate what if game.
It seems in watching the video I got sucked in and found it thought provoking and mind blowing. Now that I've sat down and chewed on it a while I realize it's all very trivial. I don't care about what ifs. Why? Because all I know for sure is that I exist. I exist here, I exist now. There's no sense in wondering all of the possible outcomes. It doesn't actually make them true. All this model really showed was all the possible outcomes of possible starting points, and in my eyes, sure it seems amazing that we could seem so small in the grand scheme of things, but all I know is my self as the way I am.

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