ASTIGMA

Said the night wind to the little lamb, "Do you see what I see?"

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Astigmatism isn't an eye disease--its a refractive error, where your eyes somehow forgot to make itself a sphere and instead made itself shaped like a football, after your favorite sports game. Its a problem of how the eye focuses the light. Objects at any distance can seem blurry or wavy, like a mirage.

And anyway, that itself isn't important. I don't have astigmatism.

But I do have something worse. I call it 'astigma'. That's not a word in any dictionary, because I made it up. I have astigma. Its like astigmatism, but not really. And its not contagious either, but people avoid me for it. Hence the 'stigma' in astigma.

Its not even a disease, its an ability. Or a curse, whichever which. It has been called in several cultures by many names. In Hinduism, its called 'ajna' or 'chakra'. Which made it seem cool, like I have a Naruto ability. But it has one other name that you'll probably recognize:

Third eye.

Yes, third eye. Or sixth sense, some might say. So just give me a tie, comb my hair, and I could summarize astigma in four words that you all have probably heard of, at some time or other:

"I see dead people."

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