OK, so I am watching a video of a person that once in a while I like to watch. And what I gradually realized is that this notion of “a video” is quite illusory. So my idea of a video is that it’s something recorded in the past. Since it’s from the past, it’s not alive. It has to be dead. Except as I am watching it, for some reason I feel like this video is too alive. Conceptually I “know” it’s dead but it feels like it’s not dead at all. It’s a subtle feeling that develops as I watch the video.
Then at one point my attention drifts off and I start looking at some other thumbnails on the right side, and the video says something like, “What? Is it boring now?” The video was talking to me in real time.
Then later on, in the last part or maybe one before last, he started talking about this life (the video was about rebirth) and he started immediately jumping to age 13 or so. And I was mentally saying to the video, “No, I want to hear what happened when you were 4.” And, he stops, and says (paraphrased), “OK, so you want to know how I was when I was a kid?” And then he tells me how it was when he was a kid.
Yes, so I can apparently sometimes talk to videos and the videos talk to me in a way that the videos are not conceptually supposed to. This was very interesting and just a tiny bit creepy. But of course I understand what’s going on. You see, when I watch the video, I’m not watching anything from the past. My subconscious mind is projecting the video in real time, right now, and makes it look like it’s coming from the past. That’s why it can talk to me and I can talk to it. It’s a nice illusion. Is it not?
This completes my post. I realize some of you will not be happy unless I post a link to the video. So here it is. It’s the first one out of 6. Who knows. Maybe this video will also talk to you. I don’t know.
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“An interesting and slightly creepy experience just now.”
Originally posted by u/mindseal on 2016-10-14 18:35:14 (57f8f3).
I watched his 6th video due to a misread of your post. It was very apparent what you are referencing. I would describe this phenomenon with the following metaphor: This present experience is like a soap bubble, so a video is akin to a smaller bubble that is attached to this one. Where they meet causes a sort of window effect, allowing the viewing of that experience.
What’s really crazy is all the people who complain that TV drama is overacted or has “bad acting.” It’s like… if you say so! Then again if you could objectively view yourself as the actor of your own TV show, you would probably say the same for your own acting, ha!
You see, when I watch the video, I’m not watching anything from the past. My subconscious mind is projecting the video in real time, right now, and makes it look like it’s coming from the past. That’s why it can talk to me and I can talk to it. It’s a nice illusion. Is it not?
It’s quite the illusion. I’ve personally never played around with videos of this sort before. Most of the ones that I watch are “recorded” from a 3rd person perspective, where this one is from a 2nd person perspective as if he’s talking to someone. Yet, he is talking to someone! It’s a fun trick to think it’s just a video until taken from a perspective similar to yours or mine, then you realize he’s talking directly to you…
I did enjoy the 6th one because at the end he told me he loves me and that’s why he made the video! :3 What a good guy… or what appears to be a guy, haha.
Originally commented by u/Scew on 2016-10-15 01:05:55 (d8rqhh4)
What’s really crazy is all the people who complain that TV drama is overacted or has “bad acting.” It’s like… if you say so! Then again if you could objectively view yourself as the actor of your own TV show, you would probably say the same for your own acting, ha!
I agree. I bet if people saw me talk about some things in the so-called “real” life they’d think I’m overacting it. Some people just have bursting manners of speaking. Others are very quiet and it’s not necessarily fake. But I guess people rely on their own expectations to determine what’s fake and what isn’t.
It’s quite the illusion. I’ve personally never played around with videos of this sort before. Most of the ones that I watch are “recorded” from a 3rd person perspective, where this one is from a 2nd person perspective as if he’s talking to someone. Yet, he is talking to someone! It’s a fun trick to think it’s just a video until taken from a perspective similar to yours or mine, then you realize he’s talking directly to you…
Exactly, and then imagine, it’s personal. My normal expectation would be to think that some veeeeerrryyyy remote, distant, unrelated person, and in the past too, is in the video. What if that person is closer to me than my own head and is not at all in the past, but right now, and talking right now as a video, but not really a video? It just looks like a video, but has the same qualities as a living person?
Of course we can do this trick in reverse too. We can look at living people as if they were prerecorded videos from the past. :) That would probably be creepy in its own right.
Originally commented by u/mindseal on 2016-10-15 02:55:16 (d8rvl66)
of course we can do this trick in reverse
This has happened to me before and it was very disconcerting. It made it feel as if I was talking to myself and only using them as a frame to put one side of the dialogue on. Just thinking about it is uncomfortable.
Originally commented by u/Dont_Even_Trip on 2016-10-15 11:43:31 (d8sixyl)