Ok so I have a dumb question for you all and I have asked it IRL and everyone just gives me 'that look'…have you noticed anything sort of 'off' lately about the physical environment? I am seriously starting to think I may have caught COVID or something because something is really 'unusual' about the way light is polarizing right now…I have these silly sun glasses that someone gave me as a present a couple years ago, which I never wore until this week and I put them on and I am just tripping balls so hard…the trees are polarized differently than the grass, different types of trees as well and some but not all weeds are polarized differently than grass and other plants. Metals are all polarized differently from one another (I could seriously stare at a manhole cover in astonishment for several minutes; I don't, but I COULD) but anything that is 'oil' based is REALLY STRANGE…and forget about like blobs of tar on the road, I could probably spend minutes looking at those as well while I am on my walk (I don't because wtf would my neighbors think) but I want to! Water, in a thin sheet or a film has certain 'unusual' like three dimensional properties but in a lake or pond it is normal dull water.
Certain paint jobs on certain, but not all, cars are breathtaking and I can't take my eyes off them. And things that you might think would be brilliant are dull and boring like reflective tape, or street signs (they have that reflective coating, you know…while just a little bit down the road a discarded like black latex or PVC glove (not sure) by the side of the road has so much light reflecting/coming off it that it is breathtaking, even though it is a piece of TRASH on the roadside. And all plastics, literally all of them, have some strange 'effects' about them…
It is really strange to look at things like mailboxes and wood posts too…like dead wood has a satin shine (which it normally has but now it is like 3D shine) to it while the mailboxes are variable, some are polarized differently and some are hardly noticeable.
It has been so bad over the last week that I simply can't drive safely with the sunglasses on because I am rubbernecking to look at everything.
So, ok, I could say, I am sick and it is affecting my optic nerve when I have the polarizing sun glasses on…but it happened again today for a moment, for the first time, WITHOUT the sunglasses on.
I was boiling pasta and I put a little room temperature olive oil in the pot to keep it from boiling over. Well, when I put it into the pot it was (ok I know this sounds bizarre) but it had sort of a fluid crystal structure that was all rainbow refracting. I will try to find a photo of something similar. Now it went away really quick, I think due to the oil heating up but I have never see THAT before. Have you heard of anyone seeing chemical/molecular structures or, you know, weird stuff lately?
I am asking because we are here on /pnd/ and nobody cares…as well as, you know, sometimes people hear/see stuff that I don't hear because I hardly ever watch the news anymore.
This gif of the glass cube is what the olive oil looked like today. It literally had this much color and a similar sort of matrix that you see right where all the corners meet in front, shining out if it. Make the gif move if you want to see why I am tripping balls A LOT nowadays. Did any of you have a View Master toy when you were young? Yeah well it is like I am seeing the world in 3D for the first time but not looking through a View Master. But its not really the 'flat plane' world that we always saw before but like things are really DIMENSIONAL now…
So here is what I am wondering…have any of you had this happen or any other strange symptoms, that you didn't want to mention to anyone IRL?
The oil thing I was so shocked by that I did mention it IRL today.
