Did I Just See What I Thought I Saw?
“Vision is controlled hallucination” — Max Clowes
Vision is a tricky sense. According to my home state, I’m legally blind, so maybe my vision is trickier than most other people’s. I have monocular vision, which means that it is technically impossible for me to see in three dimensions (or, at least, that’s what they tell me).
I do remember all of those terrible times trying to walk up and down stairs because I could not see where I should put my feet. I usually just gave up walking and scooted on my hands and knees. However, at my advanced age, I can tell through color and shadow where my feet should go.
Although we filter light and color through our eyes, it’s our brains that actually do the seeing. The images our retinas project to our brains are all upside-down, but out brains easily switch things around. And this is where the fun begins, especially if you are digging around YouTube.
First up is a way to get free drinks at a bar for perhaps the rest of your life. Don’t worry — your audience is tipsy and has low expectations:
Now, after you’ve been drinking, everybody starts to look good.
By the time you and perhaps a significant other arrive under a roof somewhere, the world will look and sound very similar to this classic scene from Labrynth:
(Yes — that was the best version of the scene that I could find. Most of the other ones made everyone look anorexic.) David Bowie’s eye are differently coloured — well, not really. That’s another bit of illusion. One pupil is permenately dialated, making it appear brown.
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