How do you know whats behind you?

[iateamexican]

This is just an idea I've had in my head for a few years now, but always just passed it off as one of those stupid, weird thoughts. I thought maybe you guys could make some sense of it. The basic idea is that, when nobody, including yourself, is looking at it, right behind you there's nothing. Just emptiness (IE: what was there before the universe was created) or maybe there's space, or the golden gate bridge, or a bust of Napoleon the size of the empire state building, but it'll vanish the as soon as you long around.
OR!
Maybe its actually there, but you just see what you want to see, what you think you should see. I realise we are deep in the world of fiction here (Starting to sound like Morpheus) but you wouldn't ever know.

Trippy.

[Sekhem]

drugs are bad

[mranarchy]

If a tree falls in the woods and no ones around to hear it. does it make a sound?

[Gordy200]

Huh. I have that exact same feeling. I know that something is behind me, but when I turn it vanishes.

[Puzzled]

breaking out the bong lately?

[TomTheJuggler111]

that must be some good weed

[Guardian-Angel]

I'm leaning on the back of my chair, so I know what's behind me. The back of my chair. And I didn't need acid to figure that shit out.

[Seriana]

There's always two ways to find out.

[iateamexican]

Ha ha, if I was high that post would have been about 300 characters longer.

[Gatling]

Stretch your arms to the back and feel without looking. That's how you know there's something there.

[Bruce-Wayne]

At 8/24/08 05:19 PM, mranarchy wrote: If a tree falls in the woods and no ones around to hear it. does it make a sound?

If a tree falls on a mime in the woods and no ones around to see it. does anyone care?

[MasarapProductions]

Oh my shiznit, I respect your intellectual theories and all, but this is just way too far fetched. Y'know, I bet there's a hooker with 3 pimps slapping her around. That outta be great. =/

[Jackotrades]

There is always 2 lesbians right behind my head experiementing, but whenever I check, they are on the other side, I never see them......

[RockinPunk]

I've thought the exact same thing before!

Like, how do you know anything is past that wall is their is nothing to see/detect or monitor it?

[djmrules]

I couldn't quite understand what you meant. If you mean that you wonder about what was right where you are before(ie some thousands years ago). Then yes I've had these thoughts before.

Jesus that was a pain in the ass to write. I couldn't find the right words to make it literate.

[iateamexican]

At 8/24/08 05:22 PM, Gatling wrote: Stretch your arms to the back and feel without looking. That's how you know there's something there.

I did, i felt a wall, but how do I know it was a wall?
What if the bottom of the aforementioned Napoleonic bust D:

[Phobotech]

I blame magnetism. We have the ability to detect it, but we can't fully understand it.

[Khris]

ohhhhh...i see what your saying... when nobody's looking behind you you think its a possiblility that reality could bend creating an alusion of something that comes to thought, or someone else could be controling where things go with a simple thought of this, be it thing, mental alusion, or something completely diferent, their can never be an emptyness withing you

BITCH!!!!!!!

lllllllllllll lllllllllllll
l/// l l/// l
l l l l
lllllllllllllllll lllllllllllllllll

llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll
l l
l /////////// l
llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll

[AniMetal]

At 8/24/08 05:18 PM, iateamexican wrote: Trippy.

Your sig looks like it'd be perfect for the end of this theory.

[Devorax]

It's this kind of concept that keeps me from falling asleep at night.

Is there some demon killer in my closet right behind me? *Quickly glances at the closet* It's not there... but does it appear when I look away again?

Omfg mind games.

[Archawn]

At 8/24/08 05:19 PM, Sekhem wrote: drugs are bad

Drags arse bood? stsekkit to daman!

[iateamexican]

Since i can see a lot of people with good ideas, though not exactly what I was thinking, I have a way that might help some people understand.
It was an episode of Doctor Who (again with the fiction) which, for those who dont know, is a show about sort of Sci-Fi time traveling sort of stuff, where weird alien orientated stuff happens.
I doubt its ever on on American television, but its on regularly in the UK.
Anyway, in one episode, from what i can remember there are these aliens that disguise themselves as something on the planet, in Earths case, sort of Roman-ish era statues, but they have a special ability.
When anything living is looking at them, they are frozen, but when there is nothing looking at them, they move instantly, like if when nobody was looking at them, time is frozen for everything BUT them, and they move like, 100, 200 meters or whatever, pick up objects ect. in a split second. This is the basic idea that I had, you don't know whats going on when you don't look, but obviously not in a form that could interact with you in any way.

[Phobotech]

At 8/24/08 05:34 PM, iateamexican wrote:

Yeah, Dr. Who airs here on the Sci-Fi channel, never watched it, though I've been told if I like Douglas Adams as much as I do, I'd like Dr. Who too.

If they move in a split second when nobody's looking at them...how do people see them in the first place? Plus, how do they know that somebody's looking at them from behind or a reflection...would a glimpse of their hand or something still cause them to freeze?

[iateamexican]

At 8/24/08 05:47 PM, Phobotech wrote: If they move in a split second when nobody's looking at them...how do people see them in the first place? Plus, how do they know that somebody's looking at them from behind or a reflection...would a glimpse of their hand or something still cause them to freeze?

Ha ha, you somewhat missed the point, but yeah i suppose so.

[DasUberCow]

You dont get paranoid from weed you retards. Hes either on acid or just has this weird feeling like i get sometimes.

[Phobotech]

At 8/24/08 05:49 PM, iateamexican wrote:

At 8/24/08 05:47 PM, Phobotech wrote: If they move in a split second when nobody's looking at them...how do people see them in the first place? Plus, how do they know that somebody's looking at them from behind or a reflection...would a glimpse of their hand or something still cause them to freeze?

Ha ha, you somewhat missed the point, but yeah i suppose so.

Well, no I got your point; Even if you knew what was there, it's not like you could interact with it anyway, so it doesn't matter...I'm just trying to make sense out of these things...

...Like, do they have a full-commitment to time or only partially in regards to aging (Do they age moving, freezing, or both)? In fact, DO they age? Or are they spectral anomalies?

Bottom-line being it's Sci-Fi; It's not real...these things don't exist, and even if they did it's irrelevant. But I like to debate and theorize.

[10000000000000000000]

At 8/24/08 05:19 PM, mranarchy wrote: If a tree falls in the woods and no ones around to hear it. does it make a sound?

yes

[iateamexican]

At 8/24/08 05:54 PM, Phobotech wrote: ...Like, do they have a full-commitment to time or only partially in regards to aging (Do they age moving, freezing, or both)? In fact, DO they age? Or are they spectral anomalies?

Ah, sorry, that was me again.
Its not ACTUALLY time being stopped while the move, its just that saying "They move real fast" sounded a mite stupid, though it is more the case than freezing time.
Not seeing them also applies to darkness, so if a creature cant physically see them, they can move freely.
The flaws appear when interacting with humans or other species occurs, for example, if they touched a human, would they even feel it, as it happen so fast it almost didn't happen, but like you said, its just Sci-FI.

[Loltastic]

How about I take a picture of whats behind me and find out?

OMG IT'S A WALL!

[Doregushin]

At 8/24/08 05:19 PM, mranarchy wrote: If a tree falls in the woods and no ones around to hear it. does it make a sound?

Is the glass of water half full, or half empty?