You ever see something you knew very well but try to see it for the first time with no previous experience?

Question

How many different angles are there? To all this? Where do we go from here?


Doctor, my eyes have seen the years
And the slow parade of fears
Without crying;
Now I want to understand.
I have done all that I could
To see the evil and the good
Without hiding;
You must help me if you can . . .

Doctor, my eyes—
Tell me what is wrong!
Was I unwise
To leave them open for so long?

'Cause I have wandered through this world
And, as each moment has unfurled,
I've been waiting
To awaken from these dreams.
People go just where they will;
I never noticed them until
I got this feeling
That it's later than it seems . . .
-jackson browne

Answer 1

I have found it an interesting meditation experience to simply gaze at something commonplace, and gradually dismiss my learned notions about it. Suddenly, it is as though I am seeing it for the very first time.