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    The document summarizes an observational diary about optical illusions and how perception works. It describes how certain optical illusions like images of coiling snakes or same colored tiles can fool the mind by distorting one's sense of perspective. While the eyes take in visual information, it is the brain that processes and interprets this data based on prior knowledge and experiences, which can lead to distortions in how reality is perceived rather than issues with vision itself. The document also explains how textbooks define perception as how the brain interprets and reacts to what the eyes see, which differs from just visual processing, and how the brain can use top-down or bottom-up processing to make sense of sensory information.

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    The document summarizes an observational diary about optical illusions and how perception works. It describes how certain optical illusions like images of coiling snakes or same colored tiles can fool the mind by distorting one's sense of perspective. While the eyes take in visual information, it is the brain that processes and interprets this data based on prior knowledge and experiences, which can lead to distortions in how reality is perceived rather than issues with vision itself. The document also explains how textbooks define perception as how the brain interprets and reacts to what the eyes see, which differs from just visual processing, and how the brain can use top-down or bottom-up processing to make sense of sensory information.

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    Part 1-My Own Observations

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    Observational Diary Chapter 1

    Part 1-My Own Observations

    Reading through a lot of art books, optical illusions are mentioned very often. In my

    opinion, it’s sometimes scary to see the picture with the yellow and blue snakes—and all of a

    sudden—they start coiling around in circles. That picture always works on me and fools my

    mind. It fools my mind the same way that optical illusion involving same-colored tiles fools my

    mind. The picture of a room with same-colored tiles on the floor or wall messes with my sense of

    perception because my brain wants to think the tile on the floor/wall is in the shadow or light and

    appear darker or brighter, when in the painting itself, they are the same color. I guess in these

    cases, it’s not my eyes that are unable to see reality, but my brain that distorts reality.

    Part 2-Textbook Application

    The book explains the differences between our how our eyes work and how our brain

    interprets what we see through perception. Perception is how someone interprets what is in front

    of them and how the brain reacts to what the eyes see. Perceiving is different than simply seeing.

    Our eyes collect information about our world and is one of five senses. Our brain takes in these

    signals sent from our nerve cells in our eyes and processes the information. Our brain can then

    use top-down processing where we use our previous knowledge and experience about the world

    to make sense of what we sense. On the other hand, we can use bottom-up processing which is

    when our brain takes in everything we sense and tries to piece everything together and create or

    remember a previous experience of piece of knowledge to understand what we sense in order to

    perceive.

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