Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Peceptional blindness huh what was where?

http://www.google.com/search?aq=1&oq=perceptual+b&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8&q=perceptual+blindness ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inattentional_blindness ~ http://blogs.howstuffworks.com/2009/12/16/how-perceptual-blindness-works-humans-sometimes-completely-ignore-things-that-are-in-plain-sight-try-the-test/ ~ I hope some of these work, these go back to my post on perception and reality invisible right in front of us. I think we've all made similar mistakes like this over looking for car keys while there on the table right in front of us or my personal favorite looking for my glasses and they're sitting on the top of my head. Our vision and are hearing are severely impaired even at the best of times the range of our hearing and our eyesight are limited to very thin areas of the spectrum. Much of reality is completely outside of our perception. And then depending on our chemical and hormonal states what's going on in our brain what were thinking about can all lead to something we've all experienced, call tunnel vision. We're so caught up in what we're doing that we don't realize what's going on all around us. A similar physiological phenomenon occurs when we are in a flight or fight situation where adrenaline and other hormones are pumping through our system causing us to go into a very narrow focus field of vision and hearing. Another similar situation is the fact that our memory is taking in much more information our senses are taking in much more information than we can consciously access and basically we're viewing the world through this videotape of photos put together by our brains and assembled differently at different times or frames of mind. When we are in a flight or fight instinct we are receiving enormous amounts of information to our senses but our memory selects only those that the mind decides are specifically important to that particular moment. That's why after a fight or a moment of high tense situation we find it so hard to remember clearly the events of what happened, very similar to being in a car accident when asked the history of the events that led up to the accident most times we find it very difficult to recall clearly exactly what happened. one of the strange phenomenon that goes along with this is the perceptual appearance of time slowing down, time distorting because our Brain is attempting to compensate for the situation wherein and give us psychologically the best opportunity to make the best choices. I'll go more into relative perception on a later date.

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