#was crispin showing clairvoyance is definitely

[erigold13261]

what's your interpretation of clairvoyance? do you think it's purely a mental perspective (and thus unaffected by any changes in how the eyes look; i.e. using clairvoyance on a dog would still provide a largely human view of the world despite dogs seeing colors differently) or would it be affected by both brain and eyes, and thus differences in how light and color are perceived would be noted?

Ooh, that’s a tough one. This has been on my mind since you sent it. Hmmmm...

Okay so, I feel like it’s a mix between the psychic’s brain interpretation and the looker’s eyes and brain connection. This is going to be hard to explain lol.

I take it like this. If Raz looked use clairvoyance on a person who is blind or visually impaired, then obviously he is not going to see things like he normally would. If the person is colorblind or has astigmatism or something like that, it would affect how Raz see’s out of the person’s eyes.

For people who still have some kind of vision, Raz will physically see things like they do, whether that be blurry (like Crispin), with blind spots, or any other kind of eye problems there are. Someone with perfect sight will allow Raz to see perfectly.

This makes me wonder about the reverse, where if someone who needs glasses, or heck is even fully blind, will they be able to see out of someone’s eyes as well? I feel like it wouldn’t be exactly as I stated before. Someone with blind spots in their eyes could potentially see completely fine out of someone’s eyes physically, but I feel like their own mind might play tricks on them and cause some fake blindness to happen when using clairvoyance.

By that I mean that a visually impaired person immediately using clairvoyance on a perfectly seeing person will see how they(the VI person) sees, with impairment and all. But after a few moments, or a few uses of clairvoyance, the visually impaired person’s brain rewires themselves so they can see out of the sighted person’s eyes perfectly.

That is what I think about the physicality of clairvoyance (at least with humans, I’ll add more later). But we know that clairvoyance is not SOLELY a physical thing because we can see what other people THINK about others. So there is a mental aspect to it as well.

When it comes to the mental aspect of clairvoyance, I feel that we as the audience are missing out on some senses. Because this is a game, all we have is visuals. But I feel like if you look through someone with clairvoyance, you are also feeling what they feel which affects how you see through their eyes.

So it’s kinda like, the people we are seeing through aren’t ACTUALLY seeing Raz as a pile of hair or as an animal mole, but because we as the audience can’t FEEL the emotions/thoughts of the looker, it is a visual thing for us. Raz can tell that Norma doesn’t trust him and see him as a mole, and possibly she does physically see him as a mole, but we as the audience NEED that visual aspect of clairvoyance.

I do like the idea that everyone sees things differently in a literal sense, but if I am being realistic, people seeing everyone as 2D drawings that look nothing like the individual doesn’t make sense, so I feel like clairvoyance is more like Raz is feeling people’s emotions and we are seeing what he is feeling from others because we can’t feel those emotions.

I think that makes sense. So clairvoyance isn’t ACTUALLY seeing people as 2D cutouts but it is physically looking through peoples eyes. It’s a combination of mental and physical connection.

NOW! Let’s talk about animals. In the game, Raz can look through animals’ eyes and see himself and how the animal sees him. However, we know from science that many animals don’t see the same kinds of colors or shapes as us (such as bats and whales using echolocation or shrimp colors lol). So when it comes to animals, I feel like we are limited behind our human brains to interpret what we see.

We can physically look out of an animals eyes, and if they have less cones than us then we see less colors, maybe less light or more light, but our human brains try to interpret it as best as it can. If the animal has more cones, or sees a completely different way than any other human has ever seen, then I think we won’t be able to properly see out of their eyes. Our brains would not be able to perceive new colors, maybe we might see in a higher definition, or be more sensitive to movement, but I do not think we could mentally see new colors. Our brains would filter it out or something like that.

Though, people who were born colorblind or deaf can get accessibility devices to help them see color or hear sounds, which is something they never processed before but are able to. However, their human body was still able to do those functions as other humans. They didn’t just get the ability to see infrared or ultraviolet light, or hear super low or high frequencies.

Seeing, hearing, touching or anything else, outside of the human experience is not something humans will be able to do without some kind of help or middle man to process the information. So I don’t think psychics will be able to see properly out of a shrimp’s eyes or hear things at a higher frequency if they clairvoyanced a dog (and yeah, after talking about all this, I do feel like you’d also get the other senses if you use clairvoyance on someone).

I don’t know if this is making any sense, but to put it simply, I think clairvoyance is something both physical and mental. You are mentally connecting with another being’s physical body and how they mentally process information that you then have to mentally process as well. If the information is something outside the realm of possibility for a human to naturally experience I feel like our minds would filter or limit the information so we could process it.

Though I am sure there are special cases (such as the Boole family) that might be able to experience SOME animal experiences/senses because of their grand psychic ability. Or just any of the Psychic 7 using the Astralathe probably allowed them to experience the full clairvoyance of many animals (I am betting Otto wanted to see shrimp colors). But yeah, I think clairvoyance is both a mental and physical psychic ability that has limits because of the human brain not being able to mentally process every bit of information or physically override visual impairment.