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Closed Eyed Visuals

^ Must admit this type of speculation occurred to me a few years back, wishing I could genetically engineer silver birch to produce morphine...imagine a gallon or so per tree per year 8o
 
as for your brain seeing things after your eyes do im sure thats true. try looking at those grains in wood right after you turn your vision there. if you try and look at the detail too fast it kinda hurts. and youll notice your eyes adjusting to focus on the grain.
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Another experiment is looking in the mirror and flicking your 'gaze' from one eye to the other; you will not see the actual movement, though others can. Eveyrtime we change the position of our eyeballs, we are temporarily blind. This happens about three times a second at minimum.
 
swilow said:
Thats not entirely true really. In the case of the 'blind spot' and peripheral vision, a lot is invented by the brain and filled in, but general vision is relatively true to the way our eyes are designed. What is intriguing though is the fact that there is a 500millisencond lag in between the eyes SEEING and the brain SEEING, suggesting that all vision is processed 'preconciously' and then enters our field of vision. What the processing is, who knows? Also, this fact suggests that we never actually 'see' anything in the present, its all half a second old. Weird.

Psychedelics, with the enhanced and changed neaural connections, might PERHAPS alter that crucial processing stage of vision, either lengthening or more likely, shortening it, so we get a 'clearer' picture of reality, with less brain-noise intefering. The trailing and flanging of imagery certainly suggests a 'backlog' and feedback cycle occurring in the visual cortex....
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500 milliseconds! If that would be true, table tennis wouldn't exist. 50-100 milliseconds, maybe.
 
most of the reaction of the player is guessed and not actualy watched. the whole keep your eye on the ball thing is to get your ability to estimate physics better.

sorry for the whole bit with genetic engeneering. ever since i was in middle school ive wanted to do that sort of thing.
 
planckunit said:
500 milliseconds! If that would be true, table tennis wouldn't exist. 50-100 milliseconds, maybe.
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It becomes basically relative though, because we are all seeing that way. Perhaps 'fast reflexes' really mean simply a smaller timelag in the visual processing of the environment.
 
What we're really seeing in regards to table tennis is EXPECTATION, not REFLEXES.
F1 racecar drivers don't have reflexes that are much better than the general population. They do however have great expectation skills.

So, in table tennis, reflexes don't actually play that big a part. Our ability for precognition makes up for our sensory losses.
 
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