Slow Light
Slow Light is an animated short film about a man whose eyes are so dense that light needs seven years to travel across them. Everything he sees happened seven years ago, like a very precise, obligatory memory playback.
I feel like this is related to whether or not you can visualize things in your mind and also Braid, a video game where you can collaborate with your past self. (via colossal)




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The premise is very similar to the Bob Shaw short story Light of Other Days [1][2], except that in the latter the slowed-down light happens in a special kind of glass, not in eyes. The story was a Hugo nominee in 1967. Didn’t win; it was beat by Larry Niven’s Neutron Star that year.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_of_Other_Days
[2] https://gebseng.com/media_archeology/reading_materials/Bob_Shaw-Light_of_Other_Days.pdf
Had the exact same thought
Great short story
Thanks for the links
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