it is always happening, you are failing to perceive the world as it is.
Hermann von Helmholtz conducted the first modern study of eyesight and determined that it is actually very poor.
He concluded that the perception of vision is largely based on a series of learned assumptions based on life experience.
these assumptions fall into 6 categories:
proximity, similarity, closure, symmetry, common fate, continuity.
imagine the perceptions of an infant.
when you play peekaboo, you are literally entering and leaving existence in the mind of the child.
our sight is also based on fixation.
the image of the object on which you are focusing is updated 3 or 4 times a second with clarity, while your periphery receives 90 low-quality images a second.
look into a bright light.
shut your eyes tightly.
stare at a field of color.
turn your head sideways.
optical illusions provide insight into the disparity between perception and reality.
they fall into 4 categories:
ambiguous:
distorting:
paradox:
fictional: hallucinations
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