It's always been my dream to have augmented senses. Who wouldn't want to be able to hear a pin drop from a mile away, or see marauders carrying your friends over the hills of a fantasy world from ten times that? But when I think about enhanced sensory perception, I always come back to timelapses. I want to be able to view, natively, with my own eyes, the passage of time. I want to stare up at the night sky and see a long exposure, or even better, the motion of the stars, in their full circumpolar glory through the haze of time passing. Alas, a man can dream... --- This timelapse consists of over 900 frames, and the background music is AI-generated.

It's a recurring theme in religions around the world that God (or whichever higher power you may or may not believe in) created humankind in his image. It made sense for our ancestors, sitting around the fire on cold pre-historic nights, pondering the nature of existance and their own importance in the grand scheme of things... But what if it turns out to be completely true, just not in the way we're thinking? Some scientists claim that it's very likely our entire reality is a simulation. If that's the case, perhaps the sentient beings in the simulation layer above us simply used themselves as models for whatever sentient beings exist here. And if THAT's the case, then if we ever escape this simulation somehow, perhaps we'd be greeted not by abstract creators or grotesque alien beings, but just more people like us, wearing labcoats and clacking at their keyboards...

It's always been my dream to have augmented senses. Who wouldn't want to be able to hear a pin drop from a mile away, or see marauders carrying your friends over the hills of a fantasy world from ten times that? But when I think about enhanced sensory perception, I always come back to timelapses. I want to be able to view, natively, with my own eyes, the passage of time. I want to stare up at the night sky and see a long exposure, or even better, the motion of the stars, in their full circumpolar glory through the haze of time passing. Alas, a man can dream... --- This timelapse consists of over 900 frames, and the background music is AI-generated.