In 125 Years, Millions Of People Have Looked At This Painting. No One Really Saw It Until Now.

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3. The description at the end reminded me of Barbara Ehrenreich's book "Living with a Wild God."

In that book, Ehrenreich describes episodes in her life, mostly in her adolescent years, where she experiences a form of visual dissociation. She sees things, familiar objects, and yet they don't appear to her as those familiar objects, but rather as (I'm speaking from memory so this may be somewhat off her description) form and color floating in her visual field. She could still recognize the object, but she wasn't processing it visually as an object. Ehrenreich said that her linguistic description could not do justice to the experience. She believed that she was experiencing an aspect of reality that our senses normally mask - again, that's my recollection of what she was saying.