All people change into caricatures

[Eram]

Yesterday, I went to the airport to pick up my sister who came to visit us.
When I arrived at the airport, I had to wait for a while.

Looking around to all the people there, I noticed that every one's face had a caricature look to it. How hard I tried to look at the people like I'm used to... they all had faces with exaggerated features to it, like 'spitting image'.

a bit like this, but more subtle.

http://savasplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/marilyn-monroe-caricature.jpg

I've had this one more time some 6 years ago and this was also when I was in an airport to collect someone.

It must be a trick of my mind and I'm not worried about it, nor do I believe that something spooky happened there, but I'm just curious to what may cause this to happen.

Someone close to me thought it was something that she read about and that it was related to a certain condition, but she couldn't remember exactly.
I've tried to google it, but without success.

any ideas?

[meeradas]

any ideas?

mass botox abuse and plastic surgery?

[Eram]

any ideas?

mass botox abuse and plastic surgery?

even the little children and babies? :caked:

[meeradas]

any ideas?

mass botox abuse and plastic surgery?

even the little children and babies? :caked:

Well, ya gotta start early these days :jester:

Now seriously, you might have had one of those moments where one is shown how grotesque this scenery is. Just masks in a play.

Did you pass a mirror? That's where it gets interesting.

[Eram]

Now seriously, you might have had one of those moments where one is shown how grotesque this scenery is. Just masks in a play.

Did you pass a mirror? That's where it gets interesting.

No mirror in sight there, though I would have been happy to pay for it to see my face there ;)

Interesting theory.

Do you know that video where they combine 2 faces and you have to look into the middle of them, then they rapidly show picture after picture from faces combined and you suddenly see these ugly, monster like faces appear.
It was a bit like that... not as horrific as that, but no beauty to find in the faces.

I was more thinking in the lines as a symptom of autism, psychoses or something similar.
Or in fact, my friend was thinking that way.

[Tony]

You are so right.
People also become mental caricatures, they become a type.
I have members of my working class family who act and sound like the Queen and Tony Blair, 'posh' I call it! "Going up in the world", they call it! They learn to use certain words...key words, irrelevant words, superfluous words and plethora of irrelevant words.....!

It get so bad that, people divide themselves up into classes. You only have to open your mouth, and that it.... not invites to tea!

It drives me round the bend!

Yours on the bad side of life,
Tony

[ulli]

Most people have facial imperfections, especially if they live stressed lives. Or if they feel exposed and scrutinized.
When I'm between flights at Miami airport where I sometimes have to wait for hours I look at people's faces, too, and I see distortions just like you. at other times everyone I see in public is just incredibly beautiful.
It depends where you are at.
But then here is another thought...that perhaps the mass media have so conditioned us to expect people to be good-looking, that when we look at real life people we get a shock. Human diversity is just amazing.

As an exercise in self discovery watching strangers is very revealing, because you discover your present self from what you are perceiving and what strikes you as fascinating.
I see you as someone who at this moment in your life is searching intensely for sanity and healthy normalness, and due to the intensity of your search you end up perceiving the opposite.
One day when your search has shifted to 'acceptance of what is' you will most likely see people differently...some distorted, some beautiful, but very diverse. Earth is the zoo of the galaxy.

[Violet]

I think it's because everybody's striving to fit it into a best image of the best human being: the best child, the best woman and the best man.

All features (bodily, clothing, personal belongings) are adapted in such a way that one is aligned with the best format.

And since there are only a few who dictate (and increasingly artificially design) - again - only a few best formats/models, everybody's going for the same couple of models. And I guess that's why you're seeing caricatures of what should've been a free he-doesn't-care-about-common-formats human being.

[Mulder]

The veil is no doubt lifting. Like in the movie "They Live" - we won't need the special sun-glasases to see the "aliens" soon.

[TraineeHuman]

As I see it, over 99% of people limit themselves to using basically somewhere between two and five identities, or (sub-)personalities, rarely straying outside the somewhat narrow limits of those identities. Usually there’s at least one for home and one for work. In addition, though, people usually have a broader “style” that’s determined by their nationality/culture. For instance, the English style is to be repressive/anal but humorous, the US style is to be arrogant but very self-reliant and inventive, and so on.

The interesting thing is, almost nobody is aware of how narrow the blinkers of their own identities are. It’s fascinating to hear that you’ve become aware of this in others, Wakytweaky. It means you’re also becoming aware of it in yourself. That really is a big deal, in my opinion.

[nottelling]

Interesting discussion. I thought it was just me... I've experienced the same when looking at people - the features seem exaggerated, but my confusion is often mixed with other "symptoms" such as:

Names, when spoken aloud (especially descriptive ones) sounding like gobbledygook.
Written plain English text looking like some alien language - seriously, Norse runes and Sumerian cuneiform script look more familiar, even though I can't read them like I can read English.
White clouds on a blue sky seems odd and I find myself staring at them.

I hope it's not some medical condition, because if it is I probably have it worse than you ;)

[Fred Steeves]

Hi Waky, I've had a couple of experiences similar to yours out in a public place. Hell if I know what it is, but my best guess is that at times we are just more aware of things we are normally oblivious to. Maybe a combination of the overall veil thinning, and those of a mind to anyway, becoming more and more perceptive.

Cool isn't it?

Cheers Mate,
Fred

[skamandar]

Interesting discussion. I thought it was just me... I've experienced the same when looking at people - the features seem exaggerated, but my confusion is often mixed with other "symptoms" such as:

Names, when spoken aloud (especially descriptive ones) sounding like gobbledygook.
Written plain English text looking like some alien language


The same is happening with me. The only difference is that I see most of the people fading away at the edges, and only some of them I see perfectly clear.
My opinion is that I am not able to see and hear some things - because they are not important to me at that moment, and it will be pure waste of time to concentrate on them. At the same time when concentrating on what somebody is saying it is either because what they say is very important for me, or because I am able to give them some information, which will be very important for them.

[Mike Gorman]

Yes, absolutely, it has become an epidemic. The Narcissism of the age. With regards to Botox and Plastic surgery.:cool:

[K626]

Hi Waky, I've had a couple of experiences similar to yours out in a public place. Hell if I know what it is, but my best guess is that at times we are just more aware of things we are normally oblivious to. Maybe a combination of the overall veil thinning, and those of a mind to anyway, becoming more and more perceptive.

Cool isn't it?

Cheers Mate,
Fred

What I've found particularly annoying is how most people think and talk about the same things. It's becoming so that I can barely concentrate on most conversations as the subject matter is so inane. I try and remain polite, but it's a real struggle to feign interest. :)

[Maunagarjana]

Hmm.....acid flashback, maybe? (assuming you've ever done it)

[K626]

You are so right.
People also become mental caricatures, they become a type.
I have members of my working class family who act and sound like the Queen and Tony Blair, 'posh' I call it! "Going up in the world", they call it! They learn to use certain words...key words, irrelevant words, superfluous words and plethora of irrelevant words.....!

It get so bad that, people divide themselves up into classes. You only have to open your mouth, and that it.... not invites to tea!

It drives me round the bend!

Yours on the bad side of life,
Tony

Agree with all of that.

I tend to mix it up and watch them struggling, unable to get critical purchase. :lol:

love


K


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[RunningDeer]

I'm finding that sometimes when I'm out, people shift into a more androgynous appearance. I don't know if it's because of their past lives bleeding through, or my recent theory is that their male/female counterparts are blending more.

[SKAWF]

i was on a tube train once..
often i'm in my own world with my thoughts,

i looked up at the people in the same carriage as me
and they looked grey skinned, and wrinkled,
but covered in make up,
and wearing ill fitting clothes that looked terrible on them.

in that moment

i thought that they were all haggered and ugly, and on the verge of death,

but they had been hypnotized into thinking they were fit, healthy, and beautiful.

now i'll couple that with another experience some years earlier.

i was around a friends house.
we were good friends at that point.
i knew, and could remember what he looked like.

but that day, i looked at him, and it was like i was looking at someone else.

it only happened on one occasion.

now i'll go back a bit further still.

i was walking towards oxford street with a friend
(who these days calls himself mrwobble jolly claypot! (he has a heart of pure gold though!)

and we were talking about how the brain edits out all the sounds that have no relavence,
and i was suggesting that it does the same with light as well.
this was a few years before i got into david icke and the rest of it.

so now i wonder if all those things are connected.

[CdnSirian]

http://secretsun.blogspot.com/2011/01/year-of-thinking-magically-results.html Coincidentally I just finished reading this post about the difference between magical thinking and madness.

Several videos (short interviews) one about and one by Philip K Dick, on perception of the matrix reality (which he describes, even the first scenes of the movie, in 1977); and also a very interesting talk about perception, how our brains project what we think we're seeing according to our filters (mental emotional cultural and so forth). What a way to start the day!

I have experienced similar versions of the perceptions mentioned by several of you above. I have also had that "Watcher" experience of seeing myself or hearing myself, and I seem like a culturally referenced being, a projection of what's acceptable for survival, a caricature, though thankfully not quite a cartoon (guess there's a filter at work there).

Yet my favorite interactions are with those who accept the "real" or "realer" me, where minds meet and that's like being in another world altogether. We live in many worlds, every day!

Wanna meet for coffee? :cantina:

[NancyV]

This happened to me quite a few times when I took LSD. I described it as everyone changing into paper doll cutouts or cartoon characters. With mushrooms everyone changed into a gorgeous soul radiating love. With peyote things got scary, but luckily I was so busy puking the weird spirits didn't scare me too much. When you breach the wall of your normal perception and begin to see the matrix differently, it will probably look different to each person at different stages, depending on their beliefs and fears. Philip K. Dick, as CdnSirian mentioned, had a good explanation of this.

I sometimes sit and "meditate" or expand my awareness with open eyes. Usually everything becomes energy but there is a process where I first see auras, then I see/feel the energy of things and people. Nothing looks unreal or ugly because it's all just energy vibrating. When we see people beginning to transform it's a beginning stage, in my opinion, of opening up to seeing energy. Of course certain drugs can keep you STUCK in that stage which can be quite disconcerting. I much prefer to have it happen without psychedelics and haven't taken any psychedelics for about 35 years. I AM tempted to take ayahuasca, although I probably won't. But I think some drugs can help people initially break through their normal reality. Then when they know the "normal" reality is not all there is, they can explore further through more natural methods.

You can also do an exercise where two people sit and look into each others eyes with as little blinking as possible. This can help to expand your sight and may even lead to telepathy and merging with that person. Their face will probably change to every expression that you can imagine, at least that's the way it works for me. They go from ugly to beautiful, young to old. These are stages of expanding your sight and awareness. Some people probably think they're going crazy but on the contrary, the veil is lifting and their awareness is increasing.

[bekrah]

This is interesting, it reminds me of something. Have you ever looked at a reflection of your reflection? It can be quite startling at first.

[Eram]

thank you all for your input.
So wonderful to read all your experiences and interpretations.
sometimes... 1 + 1 = 3 indeed!

I haven't used LSD ever.
Intuition forbid me thank God, because later on in life different clairvoyants and channellers told me that I can have those experiences without it easy and I need to be very careful taking such substances, because I'm extra sensitive for them.
Reading all the posts here leads me that it was indeed an experience of an altered state such as LSD can provoke.
Pretty weird!

One more thing to mention was that my heart was pretty closed up that evening, which might explain the absence of beauty in the peoples faces.

so... what's real eh? :frog:

[grampah]

Observing people in a grocery store is one of my hobbies. Recently I've noted what some described above, acting and dressing for an acceptable, conventional role image. I could write up "types" that I observe. Most recently it is the nearly comotose male, well dressed, unhurried, some "resort area" clothing styles, far off look, unexpressive facial and eyes. And before noon often buying upper priced liquor labels near the end of the week. The type I recall from my police work days "who didn't see anything". Some even buy a conventional "newspaper". I like to see what vehicle they get into, further evidence of their "role conformity". That type never has anything to see in the checkout line. As for mirrors, now at age 80, my reaction is, " I sure feel younger than that."

[noprophet]

http://secretsun.blogspot.com/2011/01/year-of-thinking-magically-results.html Coincidentally I just finished reading this post about the difference between magical thinking and madness.

Awesome link Cdn. I believe this is the real reason for the formation of secret societies and the resulting resentments toward humanity they develop.

[Roisin]

My apologies ahead of time for posting this comment in this thread but truth be told, I’m a closet caricaturist and I’m afraid I simply could not resist. I resort to such juvenile antics when I find myself having to endure those whom I find exceedingly annoying when I‘m not permitted, for one reason or another, to tell them that to their face. But sometimes I use this little secret talent of mine as a tool for sweet revenge too!

Like when I was contacted one fine day by an old high school heart-throb on Facebook whom I have not talked to in decades. This happened not too long after the death of my long-time boyfriend.

He lives in a land, far, far away but, right from the get-go, he came on really strong and was VERY good at reeling me in while he was doing that chase thing.

And soon enough, I found myself giddy that I had found my potential Mr. Wonderful to live happily ever after with after all -- that is, until he dropped the bomb on me one day while he was telling me his plans to fly half way around the world to visit me, that his ex-girlfriend, whom he broke up with the year before, was moving back in with him. (((BOOM)))

“Whaaaaa!??!” I screamed.
“But it’s not what you think!”, saith he.
“She owns half the house (huh?) and wants to be here to help sell it and besides that she does not have any other place to live now.”, he said.

And as I was to find out, it turned out to be a tawdry affair where she moved out to move back in with her ex-husband. But that didn’t work out so she then decided to move back in with him.

“But she and I will not be living here as a couple again and blah, blah, blah”, he went on and on to explain.
“But this does not mean that we can’t continue our relationship! She and I are only friends now and that’s it! But I won‘t be able to talk to you until very late in the evening hours now”, he implored. [sic]

And what was my response to that ******* on all of that?

This:
http://i932.photobucket.com/albums/ad164/A99_x/2algxxxxxxxxr_sm.jpg

( I posted it on my Facebook page but did not say who it was but everybody knew who it was anyway.. lol):

In actuality though, his hair is his crowning glory. He wears it in a posh slicked-back ponytail that’s very thick and blondish. But in my caricature of him, I ditched the ponytail and made it look like he hadn't set a comb to it in days. Still kept his scorpion tattoo though as the irony there was just too raucous to ignore once I got that news.

However, he’s proud of his Indian heritage from his mom’s side from way back in the 19th century somewhere in their family tree so I got nice and gave him a feather that I STUCK into the top of his head, like a hatpin, in this rendering to show tribute and respect to that as it’s not his mom’s fault that he turned out to be such a ********, right? But even though we are into our middle years now, he’s looking a tad bit older than that and longer of tooth in my sketch of him. I‘m pretty sure he was not happy to see that at all though I will never know because I implemented a full scale ‘no contact policy’ in regards to him… like, forever, in this life… and the next.

Do I regret drawing out that caricature of him? Nope! Not in the least because, to me, before he was looking like a handsome prince on a white horse who was about to scoop me up into his arms to ride off into the sunset with but after he dropped that bomb on me…[snif] the only thing that was left, at least in my own eyes, was a comical caricature of him that I drew out using my “secret little talent”.

So talk about people changing into caricatures of themselves…. yup! It DOES happen every now and then -- and this one is living proof of it! Ha!

[gooty64]

Roisen, that's WICKED! but hysterical and sounds like fairgame to me. Good for you.

[Roisin]

Yup, I fell for it, hook, line and sinker but now I'm much wiser. Thanks gooty!

[Sir Eltor]

Somethin' about them airports...I would fully agree.

Too many peas in the nuts and not enough nuts in the peas

It's all that rushing to get somewhere combinded with all the delayed flights ....equals ...

mixed nuts ....ya , i've seen those faces too

[christian]

This happened to me quite a few times when I took LSD. I described it as everyone changing into paper doll cutouts or cartoon characters.

I took it 2 times in my life and don't plan to do it again. I find it pathetic to ingest a substance to trigger a natural potential, it feels like giving power away. I very much appreciated the experiences anyways, was a good reminder of the fact, that magic is natural and very profound. Anyways, the first time I did it (actually both times), I felt like a fish in the water, could see auras more clearly, had enhanced body coordination, telepathy became much easier etc.

I then went to a train station and observed people, which was so interesting. It seemed to me, as if people put 90+ % of their attention and effort into perpetually creating a particular self-image, that then determines their interaction with the world, instead of interacting intuitively and not 'scripted'. It was so amazing to see people, how they were kind of carrying their masks around with them sternly and with gravity. I could almost listen to their inner dialogue and read their background story. They were eagerly imprisoning their own mind, I mean intellectually we can kind of understand and see that anyways, but in that situation it was so blatantly obvious to me. I of course then asked myself, do I usually do that myself as well? :cool: