Third Eye Blind
I know this is the name of a rock group (maybe I am dating myself by saying rock but…) and I am at a loss to name one of their songs. I know I have heard them because I recognize the name from WIOT but since their lead singer has not been busted numerous times for drugs or committed suicide, they are not someone I can spout from memory. What I like is the name. Third Eye Blind has an interesting resonance that peaks my sense of word play and alludes to something more than what you see.
It is obvious to most that humans have only two eyes. Unless you are talking about a Cyclops or dealing with arachnoids, two eyes is the norm. Mythology has the all Seeing Eye (check you dollar bill) or it talks about the inner eye. My assumption is that the name Third Eye Blind is a reference to the mythological inner eye that allows us to see the future or know things that we have no access to. Unfortunately, the reference is to a third eye that cannot see.
I know that I use a “third eye” called intuition. Some people are able to piece together answers from very little information. Everyone has an area of specialty that they have a greater insight than someone else. Some people have the ability to listen to a poorly performing automobile engine run and tell you what is wrong with it. Is that developed from doing something so often that it is second nature or is it the ability to string varying clues together and see the connections? I am a trivia junkie. I love Jeopardy and enjoy beating them to the buzzer. The basis of Jeopardy is that they give you the answer and you must give the question. Many of the categories provide a vague idea of what the answers will be but the contestants must intuit where each one will lead. Maybe it is a matter of pattern recognition or it could just be a gift. I guess when I start consistently coming up with the lotto numbers, I’ll know that I am Third Eye Sighted.
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Cobb
It is obvious to most that humans have only two eyes. Unless you are talking about a Cyclops or dealing with arachnoids, two eyes is the norm. Mythology has the all Seeing Eye (check you dollar bill) or it talks about the inner eye. My assumption is that the name Third Eye Blind is a reference to the mythological inner eye that allows us to see the future or know things that we have no access to. Unfortunately, the reference is to a third eye that cannot see.
I know that I use a “third eye” called intuition. Some people are able to piece together answers from very little information. Everyone has an area of specialty that they have a greater insight than someone else. Some people have the ability to listen to a poorly performing automobile engine run and tell you what is wrong with it. Is that developed from doing something so often that it is second nature or is it the ability to string varying clues together and see the connections? I am a trivia junkie. I love Jeopardy and enjoy beating them to the buzzer. The basis of Jeopardy is that they give you the answer and you must give the question. Many of the categories provide a vague idea of what the answers will be but the contestants must intuit where each one will lead. Maybe it is a matter of pattern recognition or it could just be a gift. I guess when I start consistently coming up with the lotto numbers, I’ll know that I am Third Eye Sighted.
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Cobb
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