Which reminds me of a cartoon I saw many years ago called, if I remember correctly, Flatland, in which a bunch of little objects moved around a plate and bumped into each other until one of the little creatures discovered Up and got into a lot of trouble.

I used to think of this cartoon, when I spent years staring through a microscope at wee beings that had no ability to perceive of my exsistence and wonder who was staring down their microscope at me.