Woman Uncertain About Gift of Third Eye

Detroit, Michigan — For most teen-aged girls, "third-eye" was a humorous reference to that annoying blemish appearing inconvieniently the night before the senior prom. But for Aileen Murray, "third eye" meant exactly that. In the spring of her high school year, Aileen woke up with an entirely new view of the world. Over night, she had aquired a third eye!

"I didn't feel a thing at first as I rolled out of bed," she said dryly of that incredible morning. "But as I negotiated my way to the bathroom, I noticed that my perspective of the floor had changed. Like when you put on eyeglasses for the first time." When she got to the bathroom, she continued to feel slightly disoriented, but thought nothing of it, dismissed it as merely a symptom of some mild bug. But when she looked into the mirror, all three eyes reflected shock and disbelief. "Needless to say, my mother called the principal for me and said I was sick. I didn't feel bad at all, but we felt we should get this looked into." A trip to the family doctor was unproductive, as he was unable to provide an explanation for the unusual phenomenon. He recommended an ophthalmologist.

"The ophthalmologist recognized it immediately," Aileen said, "and he was very excited about the discovery." Aileen was diagnosed by Dr. Avery Camden as having a very rare mutation known as Pythic Trinocularism (PT). The malformation is so rare, there are only two other recorded cases in the last century, both in the Far East. All known cases involved teenaged girls. Historians and medical researchers have long suspected that the phenomenon was the source of many mythological figures, particularly the Hindu goddesses adorned with the bindi. The bindi is the ornamental dot on the forehead which signifies the mystical third eye, an organ of spiritual perception, second sight, the conduit for supreme wisdom, sublime intuition, and divine knowledge.

"In the three cases we know of," a researcher informed us, "the eye emerged in the mid to late teens, at around the same age young women are susceptible to the frequencies emitted by ectoplasm as it passes through walls. Thus we have the third eye's association with psychic powers." This was historically the case, and in ancient Eastern societies, the girls were immediately set apart and deified. In Western cultures, they were tried as witches and dunked until they were drowned.

When asked if she had experienced any psychic powers due to her third eye, Aileen chirped, "Absolutely. Do you remember that show, The Bionic Woman? Well, I used to love that show and one time I just got this feeling that it was going to be canceled." How long after she got that feeling was the series canceled? "I didn't actually get the feeling before the show was canceled. I was looking for it and couldn't find it, and that's when I got that terrible feeling. My mother told me then that it had been off for about six weeks. It was really spooky."

Researchers studying her case asked her for other examples of precognition, but she couldn't remember any other instances. "That's not her fault," Dr. Camden said in her defense. "Ironically, the eye that gives her psychic powers also effects her short-term memory, and most visions are lost almost immediately upon having them, rendering the psychic gifts almost useless." Another sympathetic researcher added, "It's one of nature's crueler evolutionary jokes, a kind of human platypus. Here you have this thing on your forehead, about which your closest friends will at best feel ambivalent, and the one good thing about it can't be accessed. One minute she knows the winning lottery numbers, and the next minute, she can't recall them."

Other researchers remain skeptical of the claim to psychic powers from the third eye. But Aileen defends it with a theory of her own. "Do you know how with two eyes, you see in three dimensions? Well, with three eyes you can see in four dimensions, and as anyone who has read H. G. Wells knows, the fourth dimension is time." She explained that her extra eye picks up the frequencies of light from the future. "I'm actually seeing it," she states with peremptory conviction.

Some researchers shake their heads at what is to them specious logic. "I think her reasoning is about as accurate as her short-term memory," one doctor remarked sardonically.

Aileen admits to being confused sometimes. "One time," she recalled, "I had this vision of a country singer murdering his wife. He drugged her coffee so she'd fall asleep in flight on their private plane, then he crashed it as he parachuted to safety. Like my other visions from the future, I saw it as if I were looking through glass. I called 9-1-1. Turned out I was looking through glass. A TV screen. I had been watching a Columbo episode, with Johnny Cash as the guest villain. Luckily for me, the 9-1-1 operator had just come off break, where she had been watching the same show in the breakroom."

Aileen's unusual appearance has not hindered her drive to succeed. She has performed superbly in jobs for which she is uniquely qualified. "One time I worked in a casino, watching the monitors. It was very easy." Another time, she worked as a biochemist, which required she peer into a microscope for hours a day, a tedious task for normal two-eyed people. She confounded the tedium by switching among her three eyes. "They performed as a team," she quipped, "working shifts." And most recently, she has returned to school to pursue a doctorate in astronomy.

You go, girl! We'll be keeping an eye out for you!

Not that you need another one!

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