What do we see?

How broad, deep and wide is your vision?

 Is it no greater than what you see on a screen?
iPhone

iPad

40" flat screen T.V.

 Mercy me, these screens give us one dimensional sight in a multi-dimensional world.  The screens are dangerously alluring as they seduce us and demand our immediate attention.

 Regular readers know that I am not a T.V. addict.  My set is about 20 years old, it does not dominate my room.

 But place me somewhere which has a big T.V. on the wall (e.g. a Doctor's Office)  and my eyes and attention are inexorably seduced by the flickering light.

 I use my smart phone to make smart phone calls, and not much else.

 But I have become a near addict to the seductions of my lap top and my i Pad.

 I am not addicted enough to abandon the larger sights of life as I walk (sans electronics) in the Park and with my dog. There my sight is so much wider, deeper and broader.  In the park I see, and smell and even taste a smattering of what we call nature,

 In the Park I can greet other walkers with a smile and get a good response (or not).

 My vision is broader in the outdoors. It's great. Thirty minutes in a Park is richer  than the  ninety minutes of a Travel video.

 BUT I am still in danger.  My semi addiction to my lap top screen is changing my brain.

 I believe this to be so 'cause as I drift off to sleep, my early dreams appear as a web page.  In my sleep I try to scroll up or down,  without success. 

 Has the computer screen "model" gotten into my mind and changed it ?

 Should I/you have deep concerns about the two and three year olds who,  having been weaned by a screen, will grow up to become  one dimensional adults?












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