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How Can The Eyes Deceive The Mind
How Can The Eyes Deceive The Mind
How Can The Eyes Deceive The Mind
Throughout the history, scientists tried to solve this riddle that why our eyes can
be fooled so easily by these pictures. In 350BC, Aristotle noted that “our senses
can be trusted but they can be easily fooled”.
It is often explained that the way we see the world is connected to our mental
health, personality and mind. Our brain makes judgements about size using
adjacent objects – and this can be manipulated. For example, when we see a train
track, the road looks like a triangle and the lines between them become shorter
as they get further. But in truth the lines are all identical.
Painters use technics to trick the eyes to make it believe that they are seeing a
real picture. Like make the trees smaller to show them as they are further away.
So that is how brain gets confused and believe what eyes see.
In addition, Angle is very important. Our eyes are lens shaped like a half ball. We
only see the objects with the real shape when it is right in front of us. But as it
goes to the corner of the eye, the object may seem different.