Optical Illusions

Disillusioned

Optical illusions are illusions of the mind in its visual field of perception.

What mind perceives there to be, is not there.

Or otherwise, what mind perceives not to be there, is very much there.

Why does mind perceive the opposite?

Or is it the eye that does so?

What is the line separating the eye from the mind or, to be exact - say, the brain?

A part of the eyeball, called the retina, is said to be an extension of the brain into the eye.

Retina is as much a part of the eye as it is of the brain, connected to it through the optic nerve that takes the signals of all the image sensations falling on it to the brain, which later decodes them back into the visual perceptions.

Does the eye get fooled or does the brain get fooled by what the optical illusions look to be like?

What is the difference between the brain and the mind?

The mind forces the brain to perceive the visual field in a certain way.

The brain loses its agility and exactness, i.e., to the point approach.

Yes, it loses its to the point approach and falls prey to the designs that optical illusions are!

The optic nerve along with retina is the interface between the eye and the brain.

Both need working to the point in order to sense what exactly is there in front of the eyes in their visual field.

The eyes are able to do so only when they are looking to the point, i.e., focused at a single point forming its image at the fovea in the center of the macula.

Very few, if any, optical illusions can fool them then.

The rest of the visual field should look blurred as compared to the point in question, the point in question being the clearest possible as much as it, technically, can be.

This is what is called the central fixation of the eye which is nothing else but the western name given to the third eye opening of the east.

This should also be called the central fixation of the brain - with the brain working vividly to the point, especially when the crown chakra also gets opened along with the third eye chakra.

When the mind interferes in between, the central fixation of both - the eyes and the brain - is lost.

It is then replaced with the economic fixation of the mind.

The third eye chakra gets closed.

Optical illusions hold their sway.

The eyes and the brain go subservient to the mind.

The mind always goes with the past habits, trying to fit the reality into the way it wants to perceive it.

The mind wants to see everything in the visual field equally good in one single moment, the way it has been trained by the culture of the world - the human culture!

Hence the point of central fixation is lost, losing its vividness along; and everything in the entire visual field looks to be equally good or, in other words, the mind compromises to see everything equally blurred.

Optical illusions work when eyes are seeing the entire visual field equally blurred.

But where does the mind physically stay in the body, from where it is able to force eyes to compromise seeing with economic fixation?

The answer is, it sits in the acquired muscular tendencies of the body musculature.

The mind means the map of the muscular tendencies acquired by the body musculature that affects its (the body's) posture the very first.

As the posture changes from the natural to the acquired, the first victim to fall is the central fixation, making us fall prey to the way optical illusions want us to!

The torso drops itself down, and then squeezes itself in, in order to defend (!) us from the imaginary (not real - real one never drops it down!) onslaught of future adversity - whether emotional, physical or moral.

As the torso drops itself and then squeezes in to imprison us inside our own petty cage of our petty self, the hips get permanently pushed forward, the back gets permanently slouched, the skull gets continuously and permanently pulled down as well as in or forward - displacing the alignment of the two jaws in between themselves (whose jaws on earth are aligned properly - check your own!), by the drooping (as in academics) or the stiff (as in the army) shoulders affecting the most delicate organ or system of the body the very first, namely the eyes or the visual system - by spoiling the vision permanently - making it overt in one case, i.e., nearsightedness; and covert in the other, i.e., farsightedness (making itself apparent as the so-called old-age sight only after the age of 40 when near-reading parts company with the eye saying bye to it for the rest of the life!).

Our eyes fall prey to optical illusions - blurredness of vision, in itself, is the biggest of all the optical illusions!

Rather, the mother of all the optical illusions!

The less delicate organs or systems fall the next.

Digestion including acidity and constipation; breathing turning shallow affecting lung efficiency; blood supply including a weaker heart and the blocked arteries; hormone secretion getting disturbed resulting in diabetes and thyroid; liver, spleen and kidney spoiling their functions - all this is only the beginning of the list of the organs and the systems that go falling down one by one, and further...

None is to be spared.

Hayeesha, huyeesha, all fall down!

What spoils health is that only, more than anything else on earth!

Is there any way out?

Out of the trap of our unhealthy ways as well as the optical illusions?

Luckily, there always is; unless the dysfunction has already ruined the structure in itself for good - that happens very late in life, but it does happen - later if not sooner.

Optical illusions can fool only the economic fixation and not the central one.

I will now try to show the point to you in a practical way as far as perceiving a few of the optical illusions is concerned.

These images were drawn by Akiyoshi KITAOKA, Professor, Department of Psychology, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan; who has very kindly permitted me to use his optical illusions on this site (though in a limited number!) in order to demonstrate the effect of third eye opening on their perception.

I have also taken quite a few optical illusions from his catalogue page.

Although these images of the basic optical illusions on his catalogue page are free of copyright, I do feel indebted to him for them also!

I have used his text, introducing each of these basic optical illusions, as such only, on my page, in red.

Below, in blue, are my comments, if any, which I have given, right now, only to the optical illusions of anomalous motion and the optical illusions of central fixation - these being the most important ones in my opinion.

The rest of the copy on the page, in black, is my general treatment that should be given to perceiving any kind of optical illusions anywhere, anytime.

Hence, I take this opportunity here to disillusion these illusions with the help of seeing through central fixation and not the economic one.

Why should we be looking at the world around with economic fixation?

Our eyes have been designed to look at one single point of space, at one single moment of time.

Then, they are supposed to look at the second adjacent point of space at the second (that's always adjacent!) moment of time.

Further next, they are supposed to look at the third adjacent point of space at the third (yes - adjacent!) moment of time.

And so on and so forth!

That is how the eyes are supposed to scan the visual field space-wise as well as time-wise (the two getting fused as the space-time of the relativity theory of Einstein and Minkowski!) in order to get the perception of a whole visual field in an extended time gap.

It happens (if and when it does - completely!) so fast that it doesn't appear to disturb our sense of it whole being in front of us now and here as one single unit; only that everything starts looking so vividly crystal-clear!

Hence the peripheral vision is not at stake too, that is needed - as, when driving.

Scanning the space with central fixation extended in time through all the points in space is the only right way to see, whether the world around or the optical illusions in front of the eyes.

It's not that the economically fixated eye doesn't scan at all, but it does so very economically in a very frugal way and not totally and fully - without scanning every single point totally with full attention on it, that only comes from the full interest in it!

It's in a hurry rather, to complete the scan as fast as possible without doing a proper justice to the process of scanning at all!

Hurry turns us greedy.

We want to gulp the whole cake down our stomach in one single bite!

We are the victims to the most widespread disease on earth called the mental hurry.

We want to see the total visual field in one single go, in one single moment of time.

We want to be rich overnight!

That's how our culture has trained us since early childhood.

The human culture!

So, we fixate economically as we look at the world around us; or, for that matter, the optical illusions in front of us, and hence, they trap us in their clever designs to make us perceive what is not there (or, not perceive what is there!).

It's economic fixation only that inflicts us not only with myopia, hyperopia, presbyopia, and astigmatism; but also with amblyopia and strabismus.

One single stroke of opening the third eye through changing the body posture back to its natural shape and the entire illusion is gone, whether of the optical illusions demonstrated here or the illusions of any other kind in the world around; along with the blurredness of the vision that tries to see everything in the visual field equally good, and hence, ends up seeing it all equally blurred!

This is the "Way Cool Scientist" section of Bill Nye The Science Guy: The Brain episode. Pretty neat. They work very well.

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