Out of the Corner of Your Eye…

Out of the Corner of Your Eye… [+ favourites]

When you see something out of the corner of your eye, that’s not exactly how you’ll perceive it…
Sensing something out of the corner of your eye, “Yes!”… But perceiving it “No!”…
Basically in order to perceive something it must enter into your field of vision.
This is such that, when you’re attempting to perceive something which is at the corner of your mind, you actually move your conceived vision of that something (from memory) toward the centralised field of vision…
This effect is not only for vision, but also for hearing, smell, taste, and feeling…
Basically most of your sensory equipment is more centralised, rather than evenly distributed…
And also, your strongest view of something, is right in front of you, which is why you will direct yourself directly towards something ion order to get your best perception of it…

"There is no negative one..."

I think it is interesting to look at perception as a standard deviation curve.

Not all standard curves have the same distribution, but in the one below you might say it is accurate for our perceptions. We know of, and are aware of the middle 68 percent. And as we get farther away from our central focus our perception drops quicker.

However, there are perceptions in those small fields... and more often than not they tell us something we cannot see in the main focussed area.

This is because a majority of miss-information and manipulation in human society is performed to quell the focussed areas, not the lines in between.

So, it would theoretically state then, that if one were to try to understand and be more aware of the non-focussed areas they would gain a greater insight into things.

Ideally, and i think this is what I naturally have been trying to do now, is make my standard deviation curve of awareness dynamic... in other words, when it suits me to focus and I am in a safe environment I make it more pointy and more gathered towards the center.

When I'm in an unsafe environment, I try to spread it out more so that I gather as much information as possible.

"Hating everyone protects me from elitism."

Well its simple, theres our line of perceptive relative reality, but what makes you think man is so arogant to think theres only one, im not talking about other dimensions, perceptive astral realities and dimensions are two totally different things. Okay back to what i was saying. The reason why we see things at the corner of our eyes, is cause there's frequences, wave links of other plain of existances passing through ours, relatively hypotheoticly speaking. And thus the reason why we all see ghost or wierd things, or insane people see caterpillers the size of men telling them what to do, relatively hypotheotically speaking. The reason why most men (human in general) are no able to sense unlike dogs or animals because of free will and beliefs. If there's no such thing as in the end of the number system materialisticly then there is no end for those frequences, thus proven by the fact when everyone was a small little child when they were in a room with 50 people , it felt like 5000 people. Hence the fact that you feel as if there's something in the corner of your eyes.

"Thy Lovest Soul"

Attention and perception are two different things entirely. What you perceive through your senses, is then interpreted by your brain, i.e what goes into your eye what is seen by your visual field is not necessarily what your brain eventually tells you you saw, it interprets the information for you so you can understand it. It basically filters out all the unecessary stuff and only lets you attend to what is important. When you see something out of the corner of your eye it is something just out of your field of vision, catching your attention or not as the case may be.

If we attended to everything that came in by our senses the world would be a very confusing and overwhelming place, I happen to believe that people with autism may have this problem. Every minute detail comes in through the senses and is not filtered out hence confusion and attention to minute details.

Yes so when you think you see something out of the corner of your eye it is probably your brain misinterpreting some sudden movement just out of your field of vision. Does that make any sense?

That is not to say that our sensory organs are able to pick up everything...there may be things which are transmitting at some different frequency, level whatever that we can't pick up and our sixth sense sometimes picks it up, hence the shiver down the spine, raised hairs, feeling someone's watching you etc. What do you think about that?

Decius, I like your standard deviation diagram by the way, that's a perfect standard deviation curve!

""Each child holds the world in an open hand to mould it into any shape they choose.""

There is no doubt that interpretation and observation are different mechanisms, but the entire process of "awareness" encompasses both. You want to maximize both. Missinterpretation is a flaw in one portion of the mechanism, and miss-directing one's focus is a flaw in another.

You have to make both processes acute in order to successfully use your abilities as a human to absorb and learn as much as you can out of any given situation.

"Hating everyone protects me from elitism."

intresting.... i believe the biggest role in all this, is how open your mind is

"Thy Lovest Soul"

Yes , you're both right, mind power if you like how we train ourselves to be more aware of things in our surroundings. Meditation can help you become much more aware, of course if you lose the use of a sense organ or perhaps if you are born blind for example other senses become much more focussed. We have the brain capacity to be more attuned I'm sure.

""Each child holds the world in an open hand to mould it into any shape they choose.""

I guess the main thrust of what I was saying was about the phenomena of the mind bringing the perception, of say a bird viewed out of the corner of the eye, from the outer area of sight. It is brought to the centre of the mind where you bring up that image again, this time as I said in the centre, rather than in the corner of the mind.
Decius, I think what you were saying is that we pick up and respond mostly to things in our centralised view and you’re right, of course.
Philip, you’re dead right that things seen out of the corner of the eye can often create illusory sensations, where we make errors in judgement. And also that other life-forms most likely respond differently in regards to perception of things in the corners of our eyes, minds and so on.
And Sorceress, attention and perception are two different things, I think part of the filtration you speak of occurs when that image is taken from the corner of the eye to the centre of the mind’s eye.
Decius, again on the money, but how much is interpretation part of awareness? Please explain… Because I can see that the evaluation part of interpretation is not always something you are aware of (directly)…
Philip, I think the openness of the mind plays it’s part, but is directly dependant on certain areas of openness, like knowing to look out for things in the corner of your eye…
And, meditation is one way to show an openness of mind, it just depends what you meditate upon…
Furthermore, I can say I still haven’t looked any more at things out of the corner of my eye yet, maybe that’s something I should try… It’s just easier to just turn around…
Also, the point was that we translate the thing in the corner of the eye, and put it into the centre, rather than that we should be more aware of things out of the corner of the eye. Perhaps Decius’ Standard Deviation Curve distracted us a little…
It is a helpful diagram though, it shows also the amount of attention we pay to things in the corner of our eyes, ears, etc. It shows other things too involving the corner of the eye, but that’s just the thing with useful diagrams I guess, they’re useful!

"There is no negative one..."

Interpretation is probably 20-30% of awareness in normal people, 60-70% in people who are somewhat enlightened, and close to 95% in people who are highly enlightened. Interpretation is another word for calculation: You absorb information (premises) and your brain computes these into conclusions.

An enlightened person can discover the mysteries of the universe by the direction of the wind... because with enough intelligent computations, you can connect everything with one simple premise.

In the end, I guess it turns into an asymptote. You require less and less observation to derive more and more information.

"Hating everyone protects me from elitism."