view the world upside down

I don’t know why I didn’t think of this sooner.

Assume that a deviation from expected behavior from what occurs in the long term, Will be corrected in the short term.

For example, if a fair coin is tossed repeatedly and tails comes up a larger number of times than is expected, a gambler may incorrectly believe that this means that heads is more likely in future tosses

They often feel they are DUE for a win.

This is a case where how the world is observed, is not how the world just is. Probability and chance are independent of previous occurrences.

We know that, in the case of fliping a fair coin 21 times, the odds of having 21 heads is 1 in a little over 2 million. Unfortunately the probability of flipping a head after having already flipped 20 heads in a row is simply 1 in 2.

AND

The probability of 20 heads and 1 tail are the same as the chances of 20 heads and 1 head.

la la la

Oh this one is good.

Imagine that when you see a city’s skyline, you taste blackberries. Or maybe when you hear a violin, you feel a tickle on your left knee. Perhaps you are completely convinced that Wednesdays are light red.

There are people that have their senses blended together. Where this actually happens. Things are personified, or colorized or have phantom smells associated. They give letters and numbers characteristics outside their literal symbols meanings. And its an illicit response. They don’t have to think about it and usually can’t even prevent it from happening

NOt that they would want to.

We have the ability to replicate experiences in the real world in our heads. That we can simulate the future internally.

It seems so foreign really, but we do it all the time.

Any time you decide you wouldn’t like something without even having tried it.

Example: If you could either,
1) go home and have a new car waiting for you in the driveway. Or
2) go home and find your house burnt to the ground?

Which would you think would be the better outcome?
Without even answering, There you just did it.

Though they have found, that after some time later, the person who finds a new car. Will be just as happy as the person who found a fire. And vica-versa.

This shows us that Our simulator doesn’t always work as it should. Our impact bias makes us believe that different outcomes are different than they really are. That winning or losing, getting or not getting… have far less impact, less intensity, much less duration than people expect them to have.

“if it happened over three months ago, with few exceptions, then it has very little to no impact on your happiness”

because it can be synthesized.

here you can watch a full seminar I watched on this subject. Its very interesting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTO_dZUvbJA

Theres a spot in the center of your vision on each eye that you can’t see.

It can apear as just a floating black dot infront of you

The physiological blind spot, is the place in the visual field that corresponds to the lack of light-detecting photoreceptor cells on the optic disc of the retina where the optic nerve passes through it. Since there are no cells to detect light on the optic disc, a part of the field of vision is not perceived. The brain fills in with surrounding detail and with information from the other eye, so the blind spot is not normally perceived.

From wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_spot_%28vision%29)

The reason you don’t usually see this is because your brain fills in the gap from memory.

Like, digital wire removal in a some special effects shot on a film.

but once you know it’s there, its quite easy to spot. Getit. Spot? .. k

You know, being upside down. You see things upside down.
But everything still sounds right like it would.

if you were right side up.

Sound waves don’t have a top or bottom… but neither does light?
does it?

Waves on a plane between two mediums. say water and air (waves on the surface of water) ... those waves have an up and down.

We are so associated with the world. With everything.
But why does it seem that sometimes this is not right.

“How am I not myself?”

I saw this report done on a young man that had gone blind after some surgery. He then taught himself how to make clicking noises and develop a picture of his surroundings from what he heard.

This is called echolocation.
Bats do it.
Dolphins do it.
People do no do it.

Unless of course, your this kid.
Anyways, I was really impressed. I’d like to be able to channel information from other senses in such a controlled and defined way.

And how much of the information we receive from things like hearing and smell can be brought into our upper brains.

Mostly I’d assume that the physical capabilities of each sense would limit what your brain can interpret. But more and more I think that its the other way around.

I woke up this morning laying on my stomach. And my roomates cat had gotten into my room and was sleeping on my back. Which was odd, mostly because this is a large cat. and the weight was enough to make me wonder why it felt like i was sleeping on my back and my front at the same time.

I tried to roll over and he bit me.