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The tricky brain. How your brain can trick you.
Our brains are just a marvelous, incredibly efficient super machine. They do things for us, we are not even aware of...
That's how my brain tricked me over a longer period of time by filling in the "gaps" in the recognizable picture with a "presumable" picture.
Imagine a road and an adjacent meadow.
If you have been able to follow me so far, try to imagine that you are looking at the roadside at some distance. Since a part of the complete picture is missing on both eyes, it actually results an incomplete puzzle.
You probably did jigsaw puzzles as a child and used a similar method: I always tried to find the corner pieces first, then easily identifiable pieces, and then I tried to find pieces that fit to the surrounding (quite simple, e.g., green pieces for the meadow, gray for the street, etc.).
The brain also seems to know from experience that a meadow is green and a street is gray. And if there is meadow around the missing part, chances are high that there will be meadow in the middle. And where there is road around the missing part, is probably also road in the middle.
It seems, the brain then just fills the "empty" areas with the "presumable" picture. You always seem to have a "complete picture" – just with a small flaw...
And there are more things, how you can trick yourself.
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About this text
Jutta's Story texts were originally written in 2016-2017.
Since beginning of 2018, my vision is less than 20/200 and I am legally blind.
Since beginning of 2018, my vision is less than 20/200 and I am legally blind.
And I am proud to be a member of the Malta Society of the Blind.
