Light Eating

A conversation between the Self and one of the voices of the Singer

Hello, I'm here!

Greetings! It's always good to hear a voice. Do you have questions?

This time, I may have answers. We spoke some time ago of this cloud that you eat.

Our food which is not food to you, correct? I remember that conversation. There have been many since. Why do you bring it up again now?

I've been thinking and asking other voices about it, and I have some ideas about what causes your food cloud to be thick at the base of the world and thin at the edge.

You've seen where it comes from?

No, not directly. But that's part of the answer. We can't see without the outside light, but that light fades quickly as we leave the edge. The depths where the light disappears are the same depths where we begin to feel the cloud surrounding us.

I begin to understand. You think there is a connection between the light and the cloud?

There must be. That's why I asked the others, to see if they had the same experience. Everyone agrees: the less light, the more cloud. More light, less cloud.

But they can't be the same thing. If your light is the same our food, we would be able to see it when we eat it.

Of course. That's why we think that the atmosphere changes the light first.

Changes the light? In what way?

No one could agree. Light isn't heavy, it doesn't stick to itself, until it comes into the atmosphere. But when we throw atmosphere into the light, it comes back unchanged. We don't know what the difference is.

Light doesn't change atmosphere, but atmosphere changes light? The difference must be in their size, then. Big things change small things, not the other way around. It must be that atmosphere is bigger than light.

I...I don't think atmosphere has a size, not really.

There is more atmosphere than light, isn't there? So the atmosphere eats light, taking away the part of it that you can see, and leaves the rest as small pieces that fall as food.

Eats the light... Are you saying that the atmosphere is alive?

Does it need to be alive to eat? You are alive, and eat other things that are alive. We are alive, and eat things that aren't alive. The atmosphere can be not alive and still eat things that also aren't alive.

...That doesn't seem right.

Light comes into the world. The atmosphere surrounds it, squeezes it, eats it. All that remains is husks of light that the atmosphere lets pass until it reaches the wall, where we gather and eat them. How else are we able to make light, when we're so far from the edge of the world where the light is?

I hadn't ever thought about that. I suppose I'll have to consider this some more.

Thank you for bringing us this information. We do enjoy learning new things from you.

I'm still not sure who learned what, but...you're welcome.

Time frame: ~27 million years in the past