Re: [ATM] ATM: Please answer simple question - Inverted visualfields

["David Harbour" <stainless_steel@suddenlink.net>]

I remember reading the same article, Mark.

When I worked for my father in his homeowned business here in Enid, 
Oklahoma, I had a little finderscope (3X) off of a Tasco refractor (the 
usual) and when I wasn't actively pumping gasoline, or swiping a windshield 
with a real chamois, I would be looking around (usually at the pretty girls 
walking by) with this little finder; I spent so long looking at upside down 
things, that, curiously, they began to look in some strange way "okay" to 
me, upside down!!!

So I rather think that that experiment that we both read about could quite 
readily be true; it seemed, in a way, to me, that the little Tasco finder 
did not make images that were very much "out of line" even though they were 
upside down. Hard to put into words. But as a teenager, I took note of how I 
got used to it. Strange-

Davey

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Cowan" <toolontop@yahoo.com>
To: <atm@atmlist.net>
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 3:41 PM
Subject: Re: [ATM] ATM: Please answer simple question - Inverted 
visualfields


> It goes OT I know, but there's an interesting experiment you can try if 
> you've
> got nothing much to do for a couple weeks and don't mind being really 
> sloppy.
>
> Some time ago (I don't recall any references and it could've been up to 
> twenty
> years back) volunteers were fitted with prism glasses that inverted their
> visual field.  They wore these 24/7, as I recall.  After a week or two 
> their
> visual field spontaneously inverted to become uninverted and they could 
> get
> around like usual, a vast improvement.  The kicker of course, is, that 
> when
> they took the prism glasses OFF they saw an inverted field for some time 
> (I
> don't think it took as long to flip back)!
>
> Best,
> Mark
>
>
>
> --- David Harbour <stainless_steel@suddenlink.net> wrote:
>>And- there is one when you look into the flat shaving mirror;
>> only, the human eye disobeys (or should I say the human brain) disobeys 
>> the
>> rule that things should be inverted. In any case, if the "software" in 
>> the
>> brain were disabled, that rectified the inverted image in the eye,
>> everything would look upside down.
>
>
>
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