Light Observation #6
DATE-TIME-LOCATION: March 8th, about 7pm, Vander Poel Hall
OBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: The awful, never-changing fluorescent light in the hallway is reflecting off of a newly-installed large pane of glass in the lounge door. The white concrete and drywall walls are reflected and through the windows that make up the outside wall of the room, you can see lights from some other residence halls and the parking lots.
SUBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: As I was leaving to grab some dinner at Dutch, I found myself literally stopped in my tracks, staring at the lounge door completely bewildered and feeling a bit like I had stepped into the Twilight Zone. The only (and completely) logical situation was that they had put windows into the lounge door finally, so you didn’t constantly feel awkward opening the door, feeling like you might be about to get an eyeful. I’m not sure if it was because I had recently awakened or because I’ve grown so accustomed to the way the building looks, but I was seriously confused by what I was seeing. It crossed my mind that maybe someone had stuck a mirror on the door, but that didn’t make sense because there was too much depth to what I was seeing. It kind of felt like I had x-ray vision, that I was looking into something I wasn’t supposed to see, or that some kind of mysterious and strange tunnel had appeared before me like something right out of a Harry Potter book. For a surprisingly large amount of moments, the three-dimensional world that I knew had something extra, almost another dimension, a strange kind of mystique. I had to take a few steps forward and shake my head before it really clicked what was going on.