I am a fan of retro games. When I was about six years old, we were lucky enough to have a computer. I have many fond memories of that Windows 98, the type where the large color tube monitor sits on top of the CPU- anyway, we had a large collection of GBA and GBC games that we play in the Visual Boy Advance Emulator.
One of the games that I played was the Sims: Urbz by Electronic Arts. One of the characters called Gramma Hattie, makes this statement when a certain conversation action is triggered. She said "-do you see the color blue I see?"
That got me thinking. What if we see things like color in a different way, but have agreed that this shall be called purple, or red, or granny smith green? Of course, science has proved that colors are perceived by the retina and its collection of rods and cones. Question solved. Naturally something else popped up, what if that question can be applied to emotions?
Its very hard, because emotions are emotions, and words are words, trying to compare them would be like trying to compare a computer to a road sign, and trying to interpret them into words would only put us into square one, because diction is hard to regulate and words are relative in usage in meaning. But what the heck, let me describe how I feel fear:
Feeling intense fear, I sense that everything is about to crumble. Inside, it feels like everything is going too slow AND too fast. Its almost like my skin can smell danger and my mind can taste iron. I don't feel a sinking in my stomach, and I also don't sweat a lot. Vague huh? But that's until what words can do.
Weird huh? But of course, those're feelings, and feelings are subjective. But as I said earlier, what if we perceive a solid thing differently, and to whatever sense they may appeal to.
I just want to stop while I'm ahead of myself. Peace Out!
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