PoV

I was lying in my bed the wrong way forward looking at the image of myself reflected in the shining chrome of the ceiling fan. Its an unusual perspective this - a sort of bird's eye view of oneself and for me atleast, a much more creepier experience than looking at oneself in a mirror. Its probably the bird's eye perspective - of seeing oneself from above - which results in this intial unease. The concavity of the plate ( or the convexity..) gives a psychedelic roundedness to the image - As if the room has been pulled back at its elastic edges to breaking point - so that it resembles a fish bowl. But soon, the unease gives way to a sudden feeling of curiosity which compels us to turn around and examine/explore one's surroundings. Probably after seeing oneself in a different light, one tries to see if one is able to extend this skewdness of perspective to things that surround us so that something new might emerge. But the mirage is destroyed once you take the eyes off it. Everything is back to its mundaneness, every object regaining its respective un-obstrusive familiar old selves in their familiar old corners.

I was reminded of all of these because of something I read related to photography. There is this concept in image composition called rule of the thirds.This sort of a thumb rule was created based on the physics ( or biology of ) that studies patterns in the different areas/points of an image that the human eye registers immediately and strongly.The simple version of the rule can be applied by imagining the field of vision divided into 9 equal squares through 2 horizontal and 2 vertical lines and then to place the object ( or the part of the object that one wants to stress) on either of the 4 intersection points. If there are more number of objects in the image, which intersection point or line is used also becomes significant. For instance, if there are two objects in the frame, the one on the right vertical line will be highlighted more than the one in the left vertical line. This sort of thing, it seems, is used in movies i.e. to show the emotional domination of a person over the other in a scene, the former is placed across the right grid line with the other on the left.

Now I am not so sure how, But this digression somehow leads us to the point ( sorry..belief to be precise) that I was trying to make in the first paragraph i.e. the way we currently see ( as in physically see) things and also each other could have been a major contributor to the present psychological state of affairs in this world as in, If our perspective of sight had been any different, our behaviour, our emotions, morality and dont know what else, might have been very different.