“Light is the activity of what is transparent,” Aristotle. Light cannot be seen directly by the eye as it delivers heat through out the galaxies and synthesizes food directly from carbon dioxide and water for the terrestrial plant world of Earth.
Eyesight is effective over distances other senses like smell and taste cannot travel. Whether it is the stars we see at night, or a wink we catch from a special someone, the high-resolution information was carried to us by transparent light.
Light moves through space as a wave, but when it encounters matter it behaves like a particle. Light can scatter into blinding whiteness in freshly fallen snow, or pass between the particles of a thick surface like zinc oxide (used by Van Gogh in paintings.)
Research has uncovered new facts about fetal eye progression and how the eye requires light to develop during pregnancy. The activation of the light-response pathways occurring during pregnancy is essential to the forming of a normal eye. In fact certain photons of light trigger a protein inside of the fetus, not the mother, very much like the conversion of sunlight into energy that fuels plant-life, known as photosynthesis.
REM sleep (dreaming) begins in fetuses at the end of the first trimester of pregnancy and is associated with how consciousness is born into thoughts and thinking (neural networking.)
Almost all sleep in the womb is REM sleep, but inside the womb is full of subtle colors as light from outside passes through a woman’s outer skin to cause a mother of pearl glow inside the placenta. This glow of light brightens when mom is enjoying the outdoors in summer or relaxing indoors by a fire in winter!
Prior to 26 weeks, the fetus sees darkness with eyes tightly closed. But after 26 weeks, super sensitive eyes begin to open as photoreceptors begin maturation stages using a special retinol-binding protein to gain visual acuity and color perception (in fact full maturation is not complete until after 10 years of age).
As the eyes begin to open the fetus’ first sight, from inside the womb it is not unlike the Aurora Borealis, a vast night sky with hints, hues and occasional light shows of amazing colors. In fact the fetus is witnessing creation of life first-hand, where electromagnetically charged plasma is interacting in a constant state of chemical reactions, gaseous fluids and cellular miracles.
Of course mothers dressed for colder climates offer different internal ‘light-shows’ during their pregnancies than those whose trimesters happen in hotter climates. But hot or cold, make no mistake, inside that safety zone where life is in its creation, there is light, there is color, and there is a whole universe of sound and vision in the making.
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