You can Learn to See More

A bit of Light comes into the eye, an electric impulse flits through the brain, and we "see." Science doesn't really know, what light is or what the mind is, but much is now known about the miracle of seeing. Neurologist have shown how the eye registers pictures of objects and how the brain electrically interprets this pictures.

Psychologists have demonstrated that our past experiences  our expectations and our emotions colour everything we see, so that it's actually the I behind our eye that sees. Much of this knowledge is new, and it carries a great idea: We can learn to use our eyes more effectively than we do. We can see more.

Look at something close by, and pick out the smallest detail you can see hen turn a strong light on it; new, smaller detail appears. The reason? The eye is like a camera- a dark chamber with a lens in front and a light-sensitive film in back (the retina). At the centre of the retina we have a tiny spot of superfine grain, where the nerve-ends are crowded closely together. We do our hard, attentive looking with that sharp-seeing spot. But the spot is just like fine-grain film in a camera; it needs more light.


by Wolfgang Langewiesche
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