I love optical illusions and we all use them to show that we construct our reality. optical illusion are charecterized by images percieved visually and those images in reality are mnisleading. our brain percieve the image in a different way. illusion trick us in a way that we percieve something differently thant it actually exists. in other words, what we really see does not correspond to a physical realuty. I remember that in class we saw a picture of optical illusion,everyone was able to see the old lady, but i couldn't,no matter how hard I tried, I was not able to see what I was supposed to see. I guess that my mind choose to see the young ladyI have tried to focus but no way, so illusion show us one thing in a picture, while someone else can see something different in the same picture.
Let us try this out guys, can you belive that in the first picture the lines below are complety parallel?would you imagine this? or for example in the second image, the face on the left looks angry while the face on the right does not.But, if you stand a little bit away from the screen, and start looking, you will notice that the expression will appear to change?
So I start asking, is what we see in front of us right or it is just our own interprepation? are we missing something out??Optical illusion it is like life, we do see things from different direction depending on which direction are we looking at things, so many different views and perception of things.
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hello obaira,
I do agree with you, optical illusions are something incredible. me too I had difficulties to perceive what we were supposed to see in class while working with optical illusions. however, I cannot beleive that what we see around us is not really what we are seing. maybe this is the construction of reality that psychologists speak about. I want to raise also this question: does people see us as we see ourselves in front of a mirror for example, and does all people see us in the same way
It is true that most reality is constructed socially, hence creating meanings and universal conventions, understood by everybody. Illusions are a distortion of really that are also done in a symbolic way that can be understood by people who acquire the convention/the codes behind the illusion.
Naziha, are you saying that we need symbols in order to create illusions?
We're going to be tackling semiotics in a week or so. Hang on to this thought.
Salma, are you suggesting that reflection, perhaps your own, may be subject to interpretation?
Salma, if you give pencils and paper to a group of people and ask them to draw you, you will surely end up having drawings focused on many different points. Some see your smile, some your eyes, and some don't really mind any single part of you body, but only focus on what the drawing makes them feel. One will say you have brown eyes, and the other migh use 6 words to describe the exact shade.
I guess illusions are there to open a door to the part our mind has eventually skipped, telling it there are things that are not as obvious as assumed.
Hey Salma,
well, of course others don't see us as we see ourselves in the miror. every one of us has its own point of view and a different way of percieving things. we may see ourselves ugly in front of a mirror, but someone else can see us in a different way. someone migt judge us in an objective way and another might be subjective...
Optical illusions is really amazing creations and would drive the eye moventent and our imagination to many different focusses and interpretations. But i believe that if we were used to look at those kind of images we wont have thats much difficulty perceiving them. Obviously each one of us wouldperceive a different thing while trying to bring meaning to the image we lookt at, and to answer the question that salma has wonders, i would say that people will not see us the was we see ourselves in the mirror because once we look at ourselves we are affected by what we know about ourselves and thus, those thoughts would affect the way we perceive our images in the mirror, while people who look at us would be affected by what they know about us and our attitudes towards them, and thats what will shape their interpretations of our personal image when they look at us.
I think that you are making a point here, not all what we see is real. The first idea that comes to one's mind is that we don't see bacteria and still it exists, and one can establish similarity between this idea and optical illusions. However, I can answer you through the famous sentence we learnt in one of our earliest classes: "The more you know, the more you see!". So, when one knows more, he/she can see the reality. Here, everyone of us can say that this is an optical illusion because we know the technology behind creating this illusion. So, "the more you know, the more you see" must be our motto everywhere we go, because there are images everywhere we go!
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