The process of developing the retina's last images was called optography and the images themselves, optograms, writes Dolly Stolze for her blog Strange Remains. Experiments in this field first started with Franz Christian Boll, a physiologist who in discovered a pigment hiding in the back of the eye that would bleach in the light and recover in the dark.
He called this retinal pigment "visual purple" and today we call it rhodopsin. Evans, writing about optograms. An albino rabbit was fastened with its head facing a barred window. From this position the rabbit could see only a gray and clouded sky. Then the animal was exposed for three minutes to the light. It was immediately decapitated, the eye removed and cut open along the equator, and the rear half of the eyeball containing the retina laid in a solution of alum for fixation.
I was busy trying to make sure he was comfortable and pain-free, and at first didn't notice he had become very sad. He told me how much he was going to miss me once he was gone. And then he mentioned how much he was saying goodbye to: his loved ones, his favorite foods, the sky, the outdoors and a million other things of this world. He was overcome by sadness I could not and would not take away from him.
My father was very down-hearted for the next few days. But then one morning he told me my mother, his wife, had come to him the night before. I'm going to see her soon. Then he added, "We'll be there waiting for you. Over the next two days, his demeanor changed dramatically. He had gone from a hopeless dying man with only death in front of him to a hopeful man who was going to be reunited with the love of his life. My father lived with hope and also died with it. In fact, it was hard to pick which ones to use because they were all so much alike.
Now I realize the very thing that makes them repetitious is also what makes them unique. As someone who has spent most of my life writing, teaching and working with the dying, I can't prove to you that my father's vision was real. I was told, for example, that I would never in this lifetime have children of my own. The effect of these messages, for me, was one of grounding me. What happens to us when we die? People have fears. Do we lose our memories? Is everything there that we had before?
Nothing at all is forgotten. In fact, whereas now we can only remember some highlights of our past, over there we remember every single moment and detail.
Everything we knew, loved, or experienced. When we die, within seconds of entering the Light we experience a knowing. We get a fast-forward review of our lives and see the whole domino effect of all of our actions. We feel everything we made someone else feel — the joy, the hurt. We see and understand the whole domino effect of all our actions and of every interaction we had with anyone. And we know and understand what our purpose was in this lifetime.
Famous figures who died last year. Someone who may have had great difficulty walking or even standing on this side at the end of their life will tell me that over there they are dancing. The true beauty of the Light is that it is total harmony. Here, we can spend a lifetime in the dark.
But when we get over there, we get a clear view of what this side is all about. What do we look like when we die? We no longer have any physical appearance. What is there to do on the Other Side? There are so many dimensions, we have the choice of any kind of beauty we wish to experience. Whatever we loved is there — how could it be paradise otherwise?
If we liked baseball on this side, we might choose to spend most of our time in a big beautiful baseball park, watching or playing our favorite game. If we liked to fish we can choose to be on a gorgeous, sparkling lake. If we liked the mountains, we could go skiing for as long as we want.
If we liked music, we might be in a wonderful music hall. These dimensions are all created by God. Do dead people watch us shower? Does Grandma know I like to do that in bed? Sure they can! And Grandma certainly does … They see us in the bathroom and they see us in the bedroom!
But who cares? Has she got a big butt! They just look at it like human nature, like we might see two animals going at it and just look at it as animal nature. Maybe we might smile, or even laugh. They are happy for you. The dead are not nearly as stuffy about sex — not even our dead Sicilian fathers!
No judgment. They also see us in the operating room and in the classroom, and at our holiday table. They enjoy with us all the events we celebrate in our life and they also walk us through our sorrows and heartaches.
Is it possible to ask the dead for a moment of privacy? I hate to break it to you, but, no. What about God? You never think about God looking, right? Does God ever stop looking? Skip to content Close Search Your search term.
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