Hugh wrote:It's interesting to hear you refer to your "normal" view as "reality" and your flipped view as "imagination".
No, thats no judgement about reality and imagination. It was simply that maybe the window was to my right in reality and in my imagination, in the 180° rotated view, the window was to the left. And because I cannot make the reality change the window to my left, I changed my imagination to the window comes right
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A question I have is, if people can see the world from other directions, could this be an indication that there are higher dimensions of space and ourselves in order to allow for this?
But they see the completely same image of the world. So no additional information is gained.
To the topic of seeing in 4d with 2d retinas: You can simply reduce one dimension. Then you would have seeing 3d with 1d retinas (for beeings in 2d). It looks to me as if this scenario doesnt mach your intentions. Seeing with 1d retina in 3d would possibly mean that (if the retina is vertical) horizontal lines become averaged to a point.
Having a look at 2d beeings with VRI. Can you explain their VRI by using the 3rd dimension? The only plausible case I can imagine is changing my viewpoint from above the 2d plane to below the 2d plane. But thats not a (2d)-rotation but a mirroring. This scenario is like my consciousness is 3d but body catched in 2d. So I can move my viewpoint from above to below the existence plane without actually see something different. What results in flipping perceived moving direction. (But as I said not rotation but mirroring.)
The whole thing reminds me of a 3d necker cube.
The necker cube also has to do with changing the viewing sides, but it is again a mirroring. Not a rotation.
Ah, that's the big question, can one see all different possible perspectives at the same time thus seeing the whole of reality and not just a "3d slice" of it?
But by VRI you always see the same thing, you dont see more, though it may feel different and so you feel more (whole).