c,
When did your vision of the Time Line occur for
you? Has it remained a constant and has it coincided with events of
meaning in your life?
I am interested because as a beginning
elementary school youth I had a vision of a line that appeared frequently when
waking in the morning. The black line was extremely tangible in
whitish grey imaginary space, with angles in specific directions at
particular points that never varied. Beside each point of change
there was a black number. Sometimes the numbers appeared
as two digits and sometimes as four, but they were always variations of the
same year number, easily seen because, like you, I was born in a zero
number year. 24 or 1964, for example, would always appear
beside a particular turning point in the never-changing line.
There were numbers and turning points at eight irregular points along the line,
with the last one being 60 or 2000. The only numbers
were where the line in space changed direction, so it did not look like a
calendar. During my 20s the line became extended to
65. After that the spontaneous appearances ceased, and
I had to consciously recall the line from a memory drawer when I wanted to see
it, whereas up until that time it just appeared in the half-sleepy
daydream mind as I woke up in the morning.
I was always curious about the vision, and tried
asking a few trusted adults and peers about their own experience to see if
anyone else shared this phenomenon. The questions were always met
with an odd stares, a shrugs of shoulders and a changes of
topic. Once I even tried to sculpt the line out of wire,
feeling much like the compelled man in the movie about Devil's Tower National
Monument and the space beings.
In the first couple of decades of adult life, those
years proved to in fact be times of unexpected major changes of direction
in career, marriage, family, living place, etc. I began to
wonder about the future numbers because they were all still visible and
memorable, but somehow as those years arrived big events did not always
appear to occur. And yet, in retrospect a year of two later it
would become clear that during a "designated" year, major changes in ways of
thinking or life values had in fact occurred.
The thing remains a curiosity, so your image
prompted a revival of the questions.
Cheers,
cp in multi-linear bc
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Subject: [BP] ""It'd take a guy a
lifetime to know Brooklyn troo and troo." --Wolfe
and
that in areas of inactivity time moved more
slowly, perhaps because of being less
dense.
My vision of year-to-year time: from the primeval ooze
to 1950 (YoB), a straight line towards the present. At 1950, a
right turn (or, facing the oncoming line, left) for a brief diversion.
Then, another left at 1960 (year I moved to NYC from KC) returning parallel to
the original line, but coming forward again. At 2001, a right
turn, parallel to the 1950-1960 line. Still going straight on that path.
"the prison of time is spherical and without exits" -Nabokov
c
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