We've all seen it.
It is not exclusive to video, or film, or any kind of recorded medium.
When you are on the freeway looking at the cars going by, sometimes the wheels can indeed "look" as though they are going backwards.

There have been plenty of explanations typed up on the "retro-grade" effect we see when this happens on film. Basically, if a wheel is filmed at 24 frames per second, and it is also spinning at that exact speed, it will "go recorded" as if it were still.

Some might say that the wheel in the recording "is" still. After all, every 1/24th of a second, we see the exact same picture of the wheel.

This happens in other mediums as well.
Sound:
It has been observed that different animals all have different sensitivities to different areas of the sound spectrum. As we can imagine, cats seem to tend toward being very good at hearing high-pitched sounds, say, those made by a mouse rustling across a leaf. etc. the main idea being that it is a trait that usually can be connected with survival...go figure, Darwin.

At any rate (excuse the pun), Humans generally hear best within the range of 500-5000 Hertz, but as we go away from that range, things begin to get quieter and quieter until we just can't hear them at all. This, they say, in general is 20-20,000 (vibrations measured in units invented and named after a guy called Hertz)

But if you notice, CD digital recordings are done at a bit over 40,000 vibrations (44.1khz actually). Why?

Well if you record a tone that goes on and off (so to speak, they are really just peaks of vibrations) but you only capture the parts when it is "on", what you end up hearing on the recording is very similar the wheel "being" still on the film. What you hear is a "constant" tone. This can be heard in poor quality digital Mp3's etc as little high pitched "tin can" tones and sounds morphing and changing in the background of music, so to speak.

The reason we sample at twice the rate of what the human can actually hear is to account for this. Just as if we recorded the wheel at twice the frame rate, we would have twice as much recorded on film, of what the original situation "really" was.

But let's go back to the situation of seeing it with our bare eyes. What are we seeing?
Through inference we believe that the wheel is in fact turning. But our perception mechanism tells us that it is still.

It makes me think of black holes.
Here is a situation where we know we can't see something.(knowledge of no-knowledge) It is a limitation of our own perception. We see light from stars behind the black hole disappear as the go behind it and then as they come out the other side of the black hole, the light reappears.

All of this seeks to question the nature of the reality we perceive vs. a human-invented (and assumed) story-term called actual "reality"....which, according to definition, we have NEVER received, unfiltered by the former.

My question is, since we can only have perceptions in this world through our individual perception mechanisms, what are WE doing?


What if you could speed up your frame rate? To see into the gaps of time in-between what everyone else were seeing. would you?
What if you saw something that only blinked "on" at a rate that just always happened to be when all humans perceptions were "blinked off"? (or the parts that humans noticed were culturally rejected as "uncontrollable", "mystery" or "random"). If you told people, what would they say? better yet, What would they hear? how could you tell them?

A light bulb is actually a fast flicker, so fast, we don't see the "off" blinks.

What we are talking about here is what I'd call "other dimensions" that, unbenounced to us, could exist, (in my mind, naturally-MUST-exist) at the same time and in the same space as our "proper reality".

Past that, I don't believe that science in it's communal-aspect can study this much further. It becomes what some people call Quantum. (others call miscommunication).

Yet to study this for one's self becomes a spiritual journey where it's an entire world anew to explore without any history.

It begs the question: Does it exist if we don't notice it?

I recently almost died. In fact, I was so close that I had to psychologically accept it.....as "reality". The world was,( at least as far as I would be concerned), as I had known it. I would be getting nothing new from my perception-mechanism. During that "time" it seemed to me that my whole life was simply one "blink-on" of the light. One frame.

It turned out that the "reality" of the situation was not as I had perceived (haha the irony). I live on, and think about that wheel and it's recording.

My best goes out to you all for what it's worth.
Hope all is "really" well.