Optical illusion

John Bramblitt is an artist. He is a normal person like us except that he is blind. This makes the fact that he is an artist even more unique and unbelievable. Complications from epilepsy and Lyme's disease made him blind at the age of 30. He went to the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas and wanted to become a creative writing teacher. He became depressed, but then he discovered painting. He uses his hands to feel the textures of the colours to differentiate between them and can even…

Why Perception does not Equal Reality Have you ever seen an optical illusion that tricks your eyes into seeing something that isn’t there? That's called perception and perception isn’t the same as reality because appearances can deceive us and our point of view changes how we actually see something. In the play, “Sorry Wrong Number”, Mrs. Stevenson believes that she is ill and is bedridden, but she actually isn’t, it was all in her head. The first reason why perception isn’t the same as…

Positive illusions are unrealistic, biased attitudes that individuals have about themselves and towards other individuals, normally close friends or family members. Positive illusions is “a perception that represents what is perceived in a way different from the way it is in reality. An illusion is a false mental image or conception which may be a misinterpretation of a real appearance or may be something imagined. It may be pleasing, harmless or even useful (Stein, 1982, p 662). The more…

When comparing the concepts from The Matrix to the ideology in the excerpts by Plato and Descartes a common theme is the realization that the world is all a sensory illusion by which an elaborate system of deception can perpetrate individuals to a common belief or perception. One of the main points that is shared between the excerpt by Plato/Descartes and the synopsis of The Matrix is that everything around us is perceived through our senses. Yet, because each individual perceives the world in a…

The awe-inspiring reality that Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons reveals to the blissfully unaware public considers the numerous illusions of life. The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuition Deceive Us provides readers with one of the most renowned psychological experiments, clarifying just how much people miss on a daily basis. While presenting the relatively simple task, in hindsight, of counting how many passes the white team made, the participants of this experiment fail to…

A). Perceiving objects in everyday aspects such as a living room with toys all over the floor, or a plate on the dining room table requires you to determine where the object begins and where it ends as you are measuring how much depth the item has (Gross, 167). You recognize the edges of each object as well as the belonging of each individual item to the tied environment. As infants grow up, they develop these abilities to be able to develop shadows to where the items edges are tied to the…

In The Comedy of Errors, William Shakespeare raises the question of, “under what situations do people get confused and allow their perception to be easily overcome?” This question is answered by the themes of understanding versus the senses and the theme of suffering. Throughout The Comedy of Errors many characters wind up in highly emotional and suspicious situations. These situations lead to the characters’ perceptions to become overcome due to the confusion they develop. In a similar fashion,…

In this episode of Brain Games, I learned of the tricks and illusions your brain will play on you. In Game #1, a basketball is rolling but the shadow of the basketball makes my brain think it is bouncing and jumping up and down. Our brain is trying to rationalize the bouncing and jumping of the ball. Our brains are so used to only one light source that we do not question the perception of shadows. Not only can shadows lie to you, but colors can also lie to you. Game #2 depicts a box with…

Phantom limb pain (abbreviate to PLP) is a rare occurrence that most people will never experience. PLP is a sensation of pain that only amputees can comprehend. An individual with an amputated limb may experience sensations of throbbing and sometimes constant pain where the limb used to be, which now no longer exists. To a healthy individual this pain may seem fake or imaginary, but to an amputee who experiences PLP, the pain is very real. It is estimated that an astonishing 60-80% of amputees…

On Thursday November 19th, I went to the King’s College theatre production “The Illusion” by Tony Kushner. During the week of the play, I did not know what to expect, because this was actually the first play I have ever been too before. Also, I never heard of the Illusion by Tony Kushner before, and I had absolutely no idea what the play I was about to see was actually about. When I was thinking about going to the play, I was actually very excited about seeing a live performance for the first…