MANDELA GASLIGHTING EFFECT

[Ninurta]

I can make it just a bit more wonky for you.

I was born with under developed rods and cones. Then along comes my benign tumor. Long story short, I had to train myself to see the way most people see, and I often fail. The average person sees the object in their field of view. I see the space around the object, and my brain fills in the rest.

Because of this anomaly, I notice things that most people never see. It is not that they can't see it, it is just that the average brain ignores what is outside of the norm.

Most people would be more shocked at what they don't see, than with what they actually see. You probably have seen this video before, it is almost two decades old. The brain is processing data at light year speed. In that process it has to project only that which it feels is relevant. We would go mad if we were able to see everything that the brain receives.

So yes. I think there is more around us than we realize. I have seen some of it.

It does a fair job of showing that the brain is programmed to see only what is relevant. Until you make it relevant.

I completely failed. I dunno what a "pass" is, so I had no idea what I was supposed to be counting.

Saw the bear though - I figured he was about to get creamed with all them flying balls, and wondered why that dumbass was just ambling into that maelstrom..

We generally see what we have trained our minds to see. I've been in the woods with folks and seen all sorts of critter sign and tracks all over the place, when they see nothing. That's because I've trained my mind to see the tracks. I always want to know what is around, and what might be coming to get me... or what I might need to be going to get.

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