Inner Thoughts Virus [Accidental Handwritten Post] (shaddup it's still the 13th here)

[createswithink]

The blind spots where are they...oh, there they are! A little off to the side of sight. Like usual. It’s filled in with an illusion-- pretty easy to pick out when trying to look at something detailed like this drawing. Thought it was fun to do so, when I was younger. But...after seeing that diagram of inside the eye, I figured out that the blind

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[makewayforroze]

What are you talking about?

[createswithink]

...Huh? Oh. This was posted to the community. What a waste. No one wants to see this.

I was just thinkin' about things. That's all.

[makewayforroze]

Be careful, the virus is posting your thoughts too. Everyone can read them.

[createswithink]

Yeah, I know. I don't even have to write things down--they just appear. Like this!

[sotobas_lot]

I wouldn't call it fake. Blind spots aren't a reflection of reality. It's completely based on the eye itself. If anything, blind spots are the illusion. It's why the brain will usually fill it in.

[createswithink]

But see, that's the thing, Sensei. It's still feel that it's an illusion 'cause the brain fills it in with whatever it believes to be there. Like...extending lines or erasing dots. Which means the brain is wrong from time to time. But I think that it's really incredible that it can do that, illusion or not.

[sotobas_lot]

There are other entroptic distortions. Then there's nearsightedness, farsightedness... some animals with different eye structures, ones that don't lead to blind spots, have different visual experiences than we do.

Think of it of there being more than one truth.

[createswithink]

So now we see the whole world as distorted, too?!

[namereturning]

[ Natsume doesn't even realize he's posting his comment, he was just looking at these pictures. Stupid virus. ]

They look like soot sprites...

[createswithink]

Haaa. They kind of do. If only that were the case... But no, those spots are where I know my brain is filling in the area with whatever it wants. Haven't seen this person around before.

[namereturning]

...I didn't mean to reply with that. Isn't it... if you wanted it to be right the way you see it without your brain making adjustments.. wouldn't you have to draw it upside-down and grainy? I was actually awake in class that day. Huh.

[createswithink]

I should take another look at that diagram. But I was thinkin' more of how it doesn't get any information from a section of what we see, but makes it look like we do anyways.

[sandinmyboots]

Get the gods to change your eyes.

if you can't trust your body, what can you trust?

[createswithink]

I won't deny that it's a handicap, even if it isn't noticeable most of the time.

[sandinmyboots]

How do you stand it?

[createswithink]

What do you mean?

[truthinfortune]

Those are some rather deep thoughts there, Issun.

What you forget, though, is that the eye's blind spots are fixed, but by simply changing your perspective, you can uncover more of the "truth". As we look about the world, the brain takes in the images that we can see from one perspective, and patches them together with images we see from another perspective in order to create a seamless whole.

I suppose what I'm trying to say is that one can be taken in by illusions only is one maintains a single, rigid perspective. By allowing oneself to be open to many different perspectives, one can ascertain the "truth".

[createswithink]

That's what I thought, too! But see, when you're painting somethin', you're only taking the scenery from a single point of view. ...But I guess the solution is that we all have two eyes, so in some way we're already taking in things from multiple perspectives, right? [He feels so smart right now.]

[truthinfortune]

That's right. But you know, some people say that an artist's unique perspective of the world allows them to reveal the "hidden truths" that the ordinary eye cannot see. Only an artist can reveal beauty in even the most prosaic of objects.

[createswithink]

Of course we can! We wouldn't be considered an artist otherwise.