Blog Post #3

The first activity I did was "Ambigous Figures". In that activity, it shows you numerous photos that could be perceived as one picture or another, for example you either see a skull or a woman looking into a mirror. What I learned from this acvtivity was that everyone sees things differently because we are all unique so our brains will see different things. What suprised me about this activity was that ambiguity is very present in our every day life, and now that I think of it, that is very true. I can apply this to my everyday life by trying to look at things differently. I am stubborn, so sometimes I only think of things one way, but I should try to be more open which makes me want to interact with the world differently.
The second activity I did was "Seeing More Than Your Eye Does". In this activity you are supposed to close your left eye and focus on the cross figure, without looking at the dot. At a certain point, the dot dissapears. What i learned from this activity was that you have blindspots with your eyesight, and sometimes your brain will make up something that you aren't actually seeing. I was very suprised to learn that the brain would make up a dot that I wasn't actually seeing. I can apply this to my everyday life by paying closer attention to my blindspots and consider them more thoroughly. This activity changed the way i perceive my brain... I'm suprised it would make up that dot!
One thing I learned from this unit was when you take an opiate drug such as heroine or morphine, your brain may stop producing it's own natural opiates. Then when the drug is withdrawn, the brain may be deprived from any opiates which causes intense discomfort. This could effect how a person processes and percieves information because this person would very depressed and physically hurting, so their bain processes would be very negative. This makes me think about the brain differently now because you can basically mutilate your brain.
Another thing I learned was that if you see two pictures on a screen, the image on the right side will be processed in the left side of your brain. The image on the left will be processed in right side of your brain. We percieve and process information so in depth, I had no clue it was so complex. With the brain, I never would have thought things get processed in different parts of the brain at the same exact time when you are looking at images right next to each other.
"The Man With Two Brains" was very interesting to me. I never would have thought that a person could live with their brain split and function almost completely as a normal person. He can draw two different shapes simultaneously because of his split brain surgery, which is very cool. I think that it's a very positive aspect that he no longer has to deal with having seizures everyday, even if he is a little bit different than us with one brain.