Thought

Whooee! Another off-topic post. :-)

I've been contemplating an interesting issue recently...

Assuming that a person is literate, is it possible to open a book (written in his/her native tongue) and not see the words? That is, only seeing the words as scribbles or seeing right through the page?

Is this a reasonable thing to think about?

Another example is the act of observing a photograph. Is it possible not to see a photograph as a photo of something? Maybe just seeing the photograph for what is really is, a flat object on which a seamless collage of colors is imprinted.

Think about these things. Seriously. They are important.