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Angela_MCA's picture

 I really like the idea that

 I really like the idea that the subconscious part of our brain is trying to help us to see things better, but I'm curious to know what things would REALLY look like if we saw it as is. I mean, blind people have to use their other senses to perceive things. They would, for example, have to touch the rock to see if it was a depression or a bulge, but they would get the right answer because they'd actually feel it. Does the brain "fix" our perceptions with the other senses similar to what it does to our vision?

I also like that I could control what my subconscious was seeing. I could try to see the bulge as a depression, and see the spinning woman going both clockwise and counter-clockwise.  But, sometimes I had a really difficult time doing this and it frustrated me. I felt like it would only let me see it in a different way when it felt like giving in.  Is the unconscious stronger than the conscious?

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