Non Angeli sed Angli

[ewx]

There be also other Imaginations that rise in men, (though waking) from the great impression made in sense: As from gazing upon the Sun, the impression leaves an image of the Sun before our eyes a long time after; and from being long and vehemently attent upon Geometricall Figures, a man shall in the dark, (though awake) have the Images of Lines, and Angles before his eyes: which kind of Fancy hath no particular name; as being a thing that doth not commonly fall into mens discourse.

[Poll #931653]

Comments

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

I also see bees when I close my eyes these days.

It's a bit freaky.

[nunfetishist.livejournal.com]

Frankly, I had enormous trouble parsing it, let along gleaming meaning from it.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

This notably occurred to me during my hardcore netrek days.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Well, it was written over 400 years ago.

[nunfetishist.livejournal.com]

My excuses were killed by a passing linguist, you insensitive scholar.

[emperor]

Guitar Hero is particularly bad in this regard.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Err, over 300, rather.

[aldabra]

Is that Hume? I recognise the sensation of trying to parse it from overnighters at Oxfrod.

[vyvyan.livejournal.com]

Hobbes (Leviathan) according to Google :-)

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Hobbes, as vyvyan says. (I actually have just Of Man in some publisher's cheapo-bits-of-classics line, rather than the whole of Leviathan.)

The feeling I get is actually quite similar to reading a French newspaper, of having to internally translate, even though much more of the language is familiar. The verbose style compared to contemporary English fits well with my impression of newspaper French, too, actually.

[aardvark179.livejournal.com]

If you think Gh is bad you should see Frequency. It has a nice tunnel instead of flat surface for the notes to travel down, and all the graphical elements are somewhat abstract.

I found designing Celtic knotwork patterns made me just see knotwork when I closed my eyes, that was very strange.

[naath.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I have GH and tetris playing *simultaneously* in my head.

[saraphale.livejournal.com]

Try tetris and pong at the same time: http://www.nongnu.org/tong/

[naath.livejournal.com]

erk

[atreic.livejournal.com]

I was about to post that :-)

[ex-lark-asc.livejournal.com]

Strawberries.

Seriously.

I had a summer job picking them once and I couldn't eat a single one all year because every time I shut my eyes I saw the damn things. Also, pretty much everyone gets the Purple and Yellow Floating Blotch Of Doom from camera flashes, AFAICT.

[lnr]

I think I know the game you mean.

For me it wasn't just tetris in general, it was specifically the lcd mini version on a keyring which my mum was given by one of her japanese students, and I spent one summer playing far too much. I stopped when I noticed the pieces floating in my vision during a gig.

[3c66b.livejournal.com]

Yes, but the floating blotches of doom are different. Hobbes' thing is to do with the brain, not just the photoreceptors in the eye.

I've had it with strawberries too. And blackberries.

[gareth-rees.livejournal.com]

which kind of Fancy hath no particular name

Hath it yet?

The most particular name I can find in a perfunctory search is "neural adaptation" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_adaptation), but that doesn't have quite the nuance that we recognize in Hobbes' description.

[ceb.livejournal.com]

It's the vintage. Everyone sounded like that in those days.

Hath it yet?

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Not that I know of.