4 activities

The first activity I read and did was"Seeing More Than Your Eye Does". I learned that we have a blind spot in our eyes that is about one centimeter in circumference. It was kinda cool I mean I never even thought we had a blind spot in our eyes, not in a million years. We never see it or notice it because our minds make things up that aren't actually there and just fills in the hole. That and when you have both or your eyes looking they might have a different range of when you can't see so when one is in the blind spot the other one is still looking and can see. It kinda makes me realize things in a different way just because in the back of my head I know that I have a blind spot in my eye even though I never see it just looking.

The second activity I read was "Contrast/Color Illusions". It talked about how the light shines on objects and it gives us a different color in our minds, even if they really are the same color. In the activity I had to move one square from where it started to a different spot and I noticed the change of the color when the light started to hit it and then it was really the same color as the other square that I did not think was the same color at all. It didn't really surprise me just because I already did an activity when I was younger that did the same thing. In my life there is always different shades of colors, but really it could be the same color depending on what way the light hits it. It does have an impact on how I perceive things on the world because even though my mind tells me its a different color in the light then it is in a darker spot, it could be the same color and I just don't realize it.

The third activity I read and did was "Ambiguous Figures". In the activity I was made to look for two different things in one picture. For example in one picture one side of your brain tells you that arrows go one way and then look again and the other side of your brain tells you that the arrows go the other way. Nothing again didn't really surprise me because we did the activity in class and we kinda went over what it did. In every day life we use different sides of your brains all the time. I remember one time we had Christmas lights that moved and I said the light was going one way and my dad yelled at me because I was wrong, he obviously wasn't using the same side of the brain as me. But luckily my mom was there and she said that she saw it going both ways and that we both were right.

The fourth and final activity I did was "Construction Zone Practice". In that activity I watched two lights move from one corner to another and my brain made it seem like the dots were moving in a clockwise manner. In reality it was just repeating to different screens over and over again. It was really cool that I could see the dots just going around and around the square but then I felt dumb because all that the computer was doing was showing my two different screens over and over again. In life I think our minds trick us into thinking that something is happening that isn't really happening.

One thing I learned was that my mind plays tricks on me a lot. It makes me think about how many things I didn't see because my mind didn't want me to see them and how important the things that I missed were. The second thing I learned was my mind just fills in things that we really actually can not see. We have a blind spot in our eyes and we never notice it because our mind makes things up so we think we see something we really don't. The third thing I learned was the mind can use both sides of the brain, not at once, but it can see things differently. I think it is very interesting that we can use both sides of our brains and that the two different sides makes things look different from one another. This unit definitely makes me think of the brain a lot different because your mind and brain make things up and tricks you a lot in your life and before I knew it tricked us a little but after this until I have realized that it tricks us more then I ever thought.