They call it depth perception....

...but I call it "seeing space."  At least, that's what it seems like.  I'm quite new to it, actually.

Seems that my blood-sugar-level fluctuations are playing games with my vision--my eye doctor confirmed that this is so.  At times, I've even been having double vision, which isn't surprising, since my eyes are not aligned correctly, thanks to Lazy Eye as a child.  It's damned annoying, of course, and I don't dare drive until my vision stabilizes.

A completely unexpected plus, however, has been a slight degree of stereo vision!  I noticed it this morning when, looking at part of the living room ceiling, I could see a spider web (and the dead moth hanging therein) in depth.  I could see the space between it and the wall.  I believe that's a first.

And, a few minutes ago, a gnat flew close to my face, and I could see it suspended in space, set off from its background.  Totally weird!  I can literally see the space between objects instead of having to intuit that space.  To an extent, I'm seeing different objects separately instead of in total 2-D.

Seeing space/depth gives objects a presence, a kind of there-ness they otherwise lack.  I can even sense how solid something is, whether it's heavy or light.  I have no idea how.  I didn't know that sensing mass was part of seeing in 3-D.  Cosmic.

If only it would snow.  I've read that snow falling in 3-D is an interesting sight, as opposed to my experience thereof, with all the snowflakes glopping together.

A sudden bout of full 3-D would probably knock me on my keister--I wouldn't know what world I was in.  All I know is that the kitchen sink looks, for the moment, like something deep--and that, when I reach down in it, I can see my hand moving through space, set off from its surroundings.  Seeing space, instead of having to presume it's there, is quite a trip.  A trip through space....


Lee