Eyeball squid holds clues that humanity may be only a thin veil for something more monstrous
The eyeball squid is a creature with a name so frightening it’s hard to believe it exists in nature. But it does! And it’s not just a nightmare that you’ll have after eating too much seafood. This mysterious creature holds clues that humanity may be only a thin veil for something more monstrous.
This deep-sea cephalopod—a relative of the octopus or cuttlefish—has one of the strangest forms in nature. It’s basically just an eyeball with tentacles coming out of it! And yet this creature—which can grow up to 12 inches long—has managed to thrive in ocean depths where no other animals can survive.
Eyeball Squid Encounters
It’s incredibly rare for humans to see these elusive creatures up close, but when they do, they always report feeling something strange happen inside them: like being suddenly aware that they have an entire other life going on inside their bodies that they never knew existed before.
This feeling is not uncommon among people who have experienced near-death experiences or who have been abducted by aliens (or both).
Eyeball Squid Discovery
The eyeball squid was first discovered in 1849, when a shipwrecked sailor was found wandering the shoreline of the Pacific Ocean. He had been lost at sea for over three months, but he was still alive. His eyes had been removed and replaced with those of an eyeball squid, which kept him alive by feeding him a thick mucous substance that also acted as an eyelid. He told his rescuers that he felt as though he could see through time and space.
His eyes had been removed and replaced with those of an eyeball squid, which kept him alive by feeding him a thick mucous substance that also acted as an eyelid.
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Optometrists and marine biologists agree that this mucous substance is responsible for the bright colors and shapes we see when we look at eyeball squids. It’s believed that these colors and shapes are manifestations of other dimensions beyond our own reality—or even other realities existing within our own reality! As one marine optometrist put it: “The complexity of the eyeball squid tells us that there must be more than one dimension to our existence.”
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