Timelessness and synesthesia
I have....learned that kids between three and five have no natural sense of time or space. They gain this sense by projecting into the future and by intuitively engaging with futuristic ideas, images, feelings and sensations. The future does not appear as the future to children. To them it is merely another aspect of "now.".........."
People may not see what I'm bringing up as being directly related but I see an echo of this concept in the condition known as
synesthesia.
Synesthesia is a neurological condition in which a stimulus in one sense modality is involuntarily elicited in another sense modality. For instance, someone with synesthesia (called a synesthete) may be able to see sounds, taste shapes, or read otherwise black-and-white printed words in color.
Synesthesia is thought to occur in anywhere from one in as few as 1:2 to 1:2,000 people. In infant (and younger) humans, it has been shown that synesthesia could even be standard up until three months of age, in that infants may at least see sounds, if not have other synesthetic perceptions. Synesthesia is also thought to commonly occur in other types of animals as well.
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To clarify, a child's natural tendency to "merge" our defined version of time - past, present, future - into one giant, eternal paradoxical "NOW", mirrors the INFANT'S natural synesthetic state to merge our defined version of sight, sound, smell, touch and taste into an expanded experience of multiple senses being activated by some event/object typically associated with less than those in use within a synesthete.
Or, to get all metaphorical - maybe this will be easier to absorb than the previous sentence :laugh: - rather than experience an event from a single side, the infant/synesthete experiences the event from multiple sides
simultaneously. I.e.; hearing music, feeling music
and seeing vibrant colors and forms, a different one for each and every note comprising the music.
I think this might lend even more credibility to the theory that children have a naturally expanded awareness and thus have more direct access to other dimensions/realities/consciousnesses/whatever you'd want to call it.
To understand children's cases, we must keep in mind that kids are tuned into different harmonics than adults. Concepts of life and death leave them with puzzled faces. "I don't end or begin anywhere," a youngster once told me. "I just reach out and catch the next wave that goes by and hop a ride. That's how I got here."
I too love the relation between the idea of "the next wave" and different vibrations. The concept of riding a passing wave and landing here implies a criss-crossing of various waves hitting different shores - and this existence is just one shore of many.
Again, this echoes the concept of an undefined expanse, perceived as separated into sections only via sensory limitation.
I remember, when I was probably 4 or 5 years old telling my mother, "But the universe has ALWAYS been here and it'll be here forever and ever. How is it possible that the universe was 'born' and that it'll 'die'? Haven't I always been here too, Momma?" We had just watched a documentary on the big bang theory, the "birth of the universe" being the film's key phrase and "will the universe die in a violent collapse or a whispering sigh?" Something like that.
I could not, for the life of me, fathom a "beginning" or an "end" and I STILL have difficulty with it now. :laugh: I remember huffing and feeling so frustrated that the scientists couldn't see it that way, that this "end to all things" was indisputable fact. THEN I started worrying that my understanding of everything was all wrong. And I haven't quite recovered since. :tongue: However, I think, the soul knows, feels it despite what the brain and senses think.
