Death and Time

Ticking clocks are the best for this.

Think of it first as it is.  A tic, each representing one second, 60 of which ate in a minute, 60 of which are in an hour, etc counting down to your own demise.

Then think of it completely differently.  Think of it not as a progression down a finite linear scale, but rather just a rhythm.  A cyclic occurrence, manifesting the momentum of being while maintaining it, just

some calming noise occurring sequentially in that corner.

It's one thing to read it but if I've described it correctly is rather incredible to experience.  I believe I can eventually take this to digital clocks and to more and more of my daily existence, and that ones perspective on time can be both the cause and effect of ones perspective on death.

compressing reality

me

dude

u know what would be a pretty sick experiment at like a sound museum or something

so

u know how like mp3s, especially lower quality ones, are compressed

Cade

yeah

me

so ur not hearing the full frequency range of say, someones voice

Cade

did you listen to that NPR thing?

me

yeah reading it now

Cade

you should just listen to it

lol

they do sound tests

me

but as u get to higher bitrates, and eventually wav, and the FLAC, and then lossless

Cade

yea

me

you like erally begin to approach the full spectrum of his voice

and its almost like you dont NOTICE until you do

Cade

mhmm

me

you dont notice what was missing

Cade

yea

exactly

me

well whats the ultimate exaggeration of that?

real life, right?

Cade

haha

me

like hearing someone talk

like when you just hear me talk

you're hearing the full range of my voice

what if we could make it such that

we went into a room

and somehow were able to compress the frequencies of sound that could travel in the room

so we were like sitting across a table talking to each other

but the sound quality coming out of our mouths was SEEMINGLY compressed to like 128 kb/s

it would be SUPER weird i think

and would really awaken you to how shitty music compression is

it might be the best way to realize that i think

because we're so used to hearing each other in prefect analogue