I love water in all its manifestations (maybe except constant rains). Back in 2009 I was experimenting with my old Canon G9 which had exceptional macro abilities due to its small but sharp sensor. I was trying to freeze droplets of water pouring from the shower or dropping into a pot. I used a hacked firmware for the G9 (Canon Hack Development Kit) that allowed me to trigger the internal flash for an extremely short period of time.
Interesting, particularly the subtle variations of color. Looks like glass!
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Yes. It's fascinating to realize, how time changes the perception of reality. If you take time away, you get a clearly defined form. But the more time you add the less form is left until everything disappears in some sort of fog.
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Agree completely. Wonder how short a time period would have to be to define "present"... most likely the equivalent to a point in geometry, practically nothing... but then, how would it be possible to "imagine" present, let alone experience it?
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The now can not be measured in terms of time units because it's an entirely different dimension. The eternal present moment is all that is real. Time, however, is what we imagine, what we remember, what we think, fear, anticipate and so on. When our attention is in time we dream - we forget the actual reality. It's because our mind functions in the linear time axis, that is thinking, not being present in the reality of now! It's a time machine!
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Makes sense as far as our perception of time is concerned and fits into the theory that time is an illusion.
What I don't understand is, how something could happen, say an infinite series of micro events, each in its own eternal present moment leading to a different state with the absence of time? In your photos you freeze the motion and so eliminate time, but wouldn't one have to conclude, with motion time does really exist? Of course that raises the question, what is reality...
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I think the state of "now" which we can experience in meditation or by the influence of psychedelics is a state of self-awareness, and is characteristic for consciousness. A series of micro events is all about about causality - cause and effect. Awakened consciousness, however, is above causality - it's the realm of creativity and genesis. Causality is all within the boundaries of time and space. Consciousness has the potential to go beyond. In other words: Our spatial 3D-environment is carried by the surface of time. Cause and effect can not be without time. The fact, that we as consciousness can perceive time means that we are somehow above this spatial reality. Our ability to perceive time can be seen as a window into a higher dimension - the time dimension. Now we use time through our mind for all sorts of interesting things, like language, culture, science and arts. The sense of time gives us the ability to creatively modify our 3D-environment. But then where is this creativity coming from? Certainly not from here because our environment is all about cause and effect, it doesn't bear any creativity by itself. Even thinking isn't really a creative process, it's more about measurement and abstraction.
Earlier you asked: how would it be possible to "imagine" present, let alone experience it?
You only can experience it. As soon as you begin to imagine something your awareness leaves the present here and now. Therefore you can't imagine it, you can only perceive it. Fully experiencing the present reality is mediation, it's like coming home from mental time travel which is projection and abstraction.
I believe that what reality is for us depends on how deep we are capable to penetrate into it. Animals for instance don't perceive time as we do because their awareness is entirely rooted in the presence. Humans, however, have a sense of time. We can remember and extrapolate states of now other then the present moment.
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Phew... thank you Peter, for the detailed explanation. Some pretty complex thought, I think I'll have to chew on that for a while...
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It's not actually that complex, I just have difficulties to put it simple...
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Wunderschön <3! Außerdem finde ich darin meine gestrigen Gedankenwelten wieder :D. Das macht es noch toller!
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Danke Shia!
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I love water very Much because it has so Many different conditions. Ice, water, gas.
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Yes! Clouds, glaciers, waves,...
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nice photos and wonderful post
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Thank you!
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your welcome and vote me
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