2006-09-02 01:47:18 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Pure imagination and the media, putting daft ideas into our heads from movies!
2006-09-02 01:49:21 · answer #1 · answered by SunnyDays 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes it is. Eyes don't see clearly in dark places, and minds interpret what is partly seen. Humans interpret shapes actively - have you ever seen "a bird" or "a map of the Black Sea" in a shape of clouds?
When I was a child, family intoned a two-line ditty on a late-night country road drive:
"Or in the night, imagining some fear
How every bush appears a bear."
2006-09-02 02:34:43 · answer #2 · answered by MBK 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your mind does play tricks on you. It is made that way. It is trying to form a complete object by something that is incomplete.
Think of those optical illusions, your brain subconsciously tries to figure out the object by inserting things that may not necessarily be there.
2006-09-02 02:21:19 · answer #3 · answered by amish-robot 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's part imagination, part biology...
They eye contains two types of receptors - rods and cones; the cones are in the central area of the macula and define colour, the rods, of which we have many more define light, and are around the edges of the eye. This is why we sometimes "see something out of the corner of our eye" when a subtle change in light undetected by our cones occurs. Try this - turn of tv in dark room and look away from it, slight residual light will be detected by the rods but not by the cones.
2006-09-02 01:57:16 · answer #4 · answered by nert 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Trick of the mind. We tend to fill in the voids from the imagination.
2006-09-04 10:58:24 · answer #5 · answered by Phil J 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When there is little or no light, sometimes only certain wavelengths of light are received by the retina. this means that sometimes you may only be able to make out objects of a certain colour or light frequency, and so you may see things that appear to be very different in the daytime.
2006-09-02 01:56:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
when i go someware and stop out the night i allways seem to wake in the middle of the night and wonder ware i am i cannot focus properly it just freak's me out...it's the same when i have been on holiday and return home cos i have been away for so long and got used to the new suroundings i have to focus on my own suroundings at home again freaking out in the night because of the weird shapes i see when i wake up in the night.
2006-09-02 02:00:38 · answer #7 · answered by chrissy b 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some anthropologists who study shaman ways have recently
stated that there are a tpye of entity that helps break down
matter on a spiritual level. And they can be noticed as fleeting
movements in shadows.
2006-09-02 02:18:40 · answer #8 · answered by Tegghiaio Aldobrandi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think in your case it is your mind, I personally like the dark the mystery of it. I like that it's a little scary, makes you feel really alive.
2006-09-02 01:56:27 · answer #9 · answered by Jim C 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when our eyes try to compensate for low light we can often see our pupils moving, it si the same with some cameras, like when you can see the red and blue appearing arround the screen, it is all because of light compensation.
2006-09-02 02:18:00 · answer #10 · answered by jobe j 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋