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My favourite of all time is the ames room. Blows my mind *cough* very time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttd0YjXF0no
You guys know another term for "optical illusion" is "brain failure".
They demonstrate--clearly--that our brains give us an edited version of reality, rather than a facsimile of it. And there's nothing we can do about it. Knowledge of such illusions is never able to dissolve them.
Reality is not what the senses perceive but what the mind makes of it.
In other words, the only reality that the mind sees is the one that it creates.
Hence the saying that everything is mind.
I suspect the reason we fail these optical tests has something to do with venturing from the familiar visual patterns we commonly experience.
Still looks different to me. To much right brain excersize.
Perception is your reality, regardless of the facts.
Put 2 fingers in the middle - the middle shaded bit is what gives the illusion. The upper and lower edges are the same colour.
The Y-man
Yeah. The brain, to process so much, so quickly, works on a lot of assumptions based on past experience rather than deeply analysing every aspect of every input/situation as if anew.
Even doing that I still see them as different colours, less pronounced, but still different.
What does that say about my brain?
It's actually grey not blew.geoffW you just blew my mind apart!!
And what's reality anyway?
I think it is time to consult with Sheldon