DailyJim: Expanded and contracted spatial awareness

Hello, everyone. Welcome to another episode of the DailyJim. I say it every day, you think I'd get it down. This is the episode for Wednesday, April 10th, 2024, a couple hours past midnight. I wanted to talk today about expanding and contracting spatial awareness.

Yes, it's a mouthful. So, one thing that I noticed from the solar eclipse that has been lingering these past couple days is that I have this expanded sense of spatial awareness. Meaning that I'm standing here right now in the room and I feel my feet on the ground and yet I can almost feel an awareness of the earth, like expanded, let's say, horizontally. Horizontally, you know, maybe the best way to put it is that I was reading a forum called Hacker News before I saw the eclipse. And one person said that seeing a total solar eclipse was the time that the person most felt like he was on a rock hurtling through space.

And what I mean by this is just, at least what I have felt by this, is just I have, I think, gained such a visceral relationship to we, I am on a rock, I am on a planet. There is a lot going on outside of me. I can almost feel the curvature of the earth. I can almost just feel the gravity, the literal gravity of me standing on the earth. And then I go and I do programming. I do some coding today or I do some research about microphones. I do things like this on the internet. And that feeling contracts, that spatial awareness contracts very, very small, to a very small level. My language is also contracting at this time of night.

But what's really shocking me is that I was on the computer, I was researching over and over and over, and then now I just stopped. And I felt that expanded sense, that spatial awareness come back quickly.

And I'm really curious to see how long this lasts.

Because it is a feeling I don't know if I've had before, a feeling this horizontal. I don't know if horizontal is the word.

It's just like my awareness is not just in the one spot. It shoots out in many different directions, almost the 360 around me, at least in the one plane.

Music.

And that means the clock is striking, and I should be sleeping.

So I'll just say a little bit more, but just this idea that sometimes.

Our sense of spatial awareness, our awareness in general, can expand to include those around us, and sometimes it can really contract to include just us, or not even just us, like less than what's going on with us. And so that's spatial awareness, but emotional awareness as well. How aware am I of the feelings, the movements, the dynamics around me? How expanded am I to that versus how contracted am I to just being maybe aware of what's going on in me or just only focused on one specific thing? So i don't know if this episode makes sense tonight my voice is disappearing i forgot about the clocks ringing um so ironically i say that i have a very expansive spatial awareness right now but i guess my time awareness is not very high oh goodness c'est la vie but um yeah so So we'll see what I talk about tomorrow. Tomorrow is Thursday or the episode for Thursday, so that'll be the last one for the week. And all right, talk to you all soon. Bye. .