From: Doug Jones (random@qnet.com)
Date: Sat Aug 07 1999 - 22:52:20 MDT
Indeed so- I remember staring blankly at the the assistant principal
during deadly dull once-a-week assemblies in junior high school.
After a while, everything else would fade out, and his motions would
be the only thing visible. The things we do for amusement...
Damien Broderick wrote:
>
> At 02:22 PM 7/08/99 -0700, Paul wrote:
>
> >Many years ago, a friend of mine taught
> >me how to see auras with about 5 minutes of instruction in front of a
> >mirror.
>
> Haven't we been through this some years ago? What Paul is describing is an
> artefact of saccadic scanning, the automatic movements by which the eyeball
> swivels and jitters as it scans the world (and which is usually edited out
> by the brain's visual constancies). If you stare at something against a
> plain background, the edges of the object of your scrutiny get displaced,
> blurring out into an `aura' around it. Big deal.
>
> Damien Broderick
-- Doug Jones, Freelance Rocket Plumber
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