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In reply to the discussion: None of these are moving [View all]99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)15. Often my computer screen does that too
if I only use peripheral vision to look at it, which is a trippy thing to do,
there are all kinds of things going on that disappear and/or are fixed and
not moving, if I look directly at my screen.
I used to work with autistic children around 10 y.o. and one of them named
"Timmy" LIVED in his peripheral vision we discovered. Whatever he seemed
to be "looking at" with his rather blank stare, was NOT what he was paying
attention to, he was actually looking at everything around him all the time it
seemed.
I wonder if this phenomenon has a name?
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It's what Doctor Who calls a perception filter. I can only see it move out of the corner of my eye.
tclambert
Jul 2012
#8
that's exactly what they want you to believe! reminds me of the Heisenberg uncertainty
NRaleighLiberal
Jul 2012
#26