Time Freezes

While viewing a painting, time freezes. All movement ends. Individual photons are locked in place, sprinkled across your eyes. These photons do not fill the entire area of your pupil. The result is speckles of color, as if a pointillist painter were just getting started with a large painting on transparent sheets. Instead of focusing on one section, the painter decides to put points all over the canvas in no particular order. Each of these speckles are separated by a black and empty void. It would almost resemble looking at the night sky, and seeing the stars against the nothingness. The stars are of different color, and vaguely resemble an image when you allow yourself to see them as a whole.

Now, time moves a fraction of a second, then suddenly halts again. The photons you had mapped are no longer on the surface of your pupil. New photons, in new positions, have taken their place. Electrical impulses from the eye are on their way to your brain with the information from the previous mappings.

This occurs many times. Each set of photons gathered by the eye generate an impulse that is sent to the brain. The brain accumulates each of these transparent sheets of constellations, and stacks them on top of each other. Before long, enough of the sheets have been gathered that all of the points added together create the original painting. It's funny though, because it's been flipped upside down. Your mind's caretaker grabs the stack of star-maps and rotates it 180 degrees. Ah, yes, this is what we expected. What a gorgeous thing to see.