Sensory Misperceptions

Flashing lights are not my friends!!

I joined a friend at a local art gallery for a peak at the new shows.  Alas, one of the exhibits featured a rapid-fire sequence of Andy Warhol's works that left me dizzy and off kilter after the briefest of glances.  Less than 10 seconds of viewing was all it took to shift my brain into overwhelm.

10 seconds, the time it took for the car accident more than a year ago.  10 seconds to recognize that this was not the exhibit for me.  10 seconds to bring on a pounding warning in my head.  10 seconds....  It took a lot longer for the effects to wear off.

I found a quiet room with a less visually stimulating work and spent several minutes looking at a calm piece.  The brain zaps settled but it took much longer to recover my equilibrium.  I wasn't dizzy in the sense that I felt the world spinning but in the sense that I was unable to visually differentiate the world.  Several times I found myself dangerously close to walking into a glass wall - not quite sure if the transparency was illusion or reality. 

Perhaps this is what it means to live within another dimension.  If I, like Alice, went through the looking glass, would I ever find my way back?