Illusion--Tom Nichols

For this activity i picked 8 activities. I picked stepping feet, motion induced blindness, stereokinetic phenomena, rotating snake, pinna-brelstaff, motion after effect, percieve your eye moments, and the flash-lag effect.

I learned that from these tutorials, there is more to an image of picture than meets the eyes. It showed me that my mind only shows me what i want to see, rather than what is really there. I also learned that sometimes some of the illusions are to complicated for the eye to notice, and that we want to focus on moving things.

What really surprised me about these illusions was how much your eye doesn't catch. For instance, i tried doing a few of these without looking at the explanation, and i was hardly able to figure them out. You first must know what you are looking for, otherwise your eye won't percieve them in complex illusions. It also surprised me how easily my eyes or brain can be tricked by these illusions.

Honestly, these illusions didn't change me in how i view or percieve the world. The thing that they did do, was reaffirm the belief of mine that there is more to someithing that meets the eyes. Whether that be a picture, movie, or person is for you to discover. You need to look at things expecting something odd, or look at someone from all perspectives, so as to not miss any small detail.

If anything, i think that these experiences would help me read people's body language better. There are many signs we can get from people by just reading their body language. Our mind chooses to focus on the person talking most of the time, so we miss out on body language a large percent of the time.