The 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…

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…

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…

The artistic ability to create an optical illusion within artwork has piqued my interest for years. When there is an illusion in artwork, it grabs the attention of the viewers’ eyes and the viewer may even feel compelled to examine and interpret the artwork more thoroughly. One example of optical illusions in artwork are three dimensional street art. Three dimensional street art is so intriguing because the artist takes an ordinary concrete public space and transforms it into something…

himself, and Cathy Moss as herself, and two unnamed actors. This film is all about unlocking the senses and perceptions, helping the curious understand how the brain works, and making sense of the world around us. To create mind-bending sensory illusions,…

an illusion? An illusion is like a false idea about something .I think illusions are of value in life because I am sure everyone had an illusion before, it’s really about how the brain react. In the play “The Tempest” it has a lot of illusions in it because they use a lot of magic, but in reality we don’t use magic it is just how we think things is something but it is really something different. I feel that illusions…

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,…

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…

possible that shakespeare is making a point about the nature of reality and perception by using one of the least appreciated artifices of theater? It would explain the last scene as the end of all of these illusions and give it a much more profound meaning than it otherwise has. All of these illusions are built up (with the help of necessary but underappreciated music and sound) and then they are all disbanded: the survivors of the “shipwreck” all find each other to be alive when they thought…

heart … Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction.” Even though all the main characters has their illusions and ambitions, Nick admires only Gatsby because “there was something gorgeous about him… an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person”. Everybody else’s illusions involved greed, elitism, etc, but only Gatsby’s was pure. Nick admires how “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future…