Could I have a blind spot in my eyes or brain?
I sometimes look for things and not find them, and they are right in from of me...I mean literally in front of me...but I may only see them hours later...
Is the brain capable of blocking things out this way...
2006-11-13 04:22:42 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
What you're talking about is a failure to percieve an object. I could go on at length about top-down and bottom-up perception but long story short, folk don't always notice things.
The "blind spot" is an actual physical gap on the retina, where the optic nerve attaches, and it's filled in by your brain. If you don't believe me try this:
Get a sheet of plain A4 paper. Draw 2 small dots on it, about the same distance apart as your eyes. Now put them close to your face with one dot between your eyes and the other out to the side. Slowly move the paper away and wait for the outside dot to disappear.
2006-11-13 04:26:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
This phenomena happens to all of us. If we look to hard we fail to see what is right in front of us. The most evident is briefly lost.
An example:
I am a poker player of 25 years. I play poker in casinos often. I consider myself a good player. Sometimes the cards are dealt and I am trying to make my full-house. I sit there thinking so hard with my two pair just hoping and waiting for a match on the turn or the river. It does not come. I am about to lose the pot but I turn the cards up. Low and behold, I have a flush, a heart flush and I did not even see it. I was thinking and concentrating so hard on the obvious (the possible full-house) that I failed to see the flush.
This happens quite often in poker and in life.
In life you concentrate on one thing blackening everything else out. It is only when you bring this to the light, you see it staring at you. That is why it is so important in life to view a problem from every angle so that you wont miss the obvious answer. It is there it is just not in the front of your mind.
2006-11-13 12:32:34 · answer #2 · answered by Nevada Pokerqueen 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sellotape a penny/cent to a piece of white paper hold out at arms length. Keeping eyes fixed on one point move the paper slowly around aiming the penny/cent where you think the blind spot is when it disappears you have located the blind spot. Most people have them but it's never in the same place in both eyes but the coin will disappear though.
2006-11-13 12:36:34 · answer #3 · answered by Crazy Diamond 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All of us has a blind spots about our own attitude, belief, behaviors, and the ways of being and to some degree or another, we become stuck in our way, our habits become invisible to us. I answered your first question. The second one is not a blind spot and the explanation you just mention.
2006-11-13 17:19:55 · answer #4 · answered by linda c 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i have the same problem at times i was looking for something for about 30 minutes and found it on the floor in front of me
2006-11-13 12:30:07 · answer #5 · answered by brian 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes. the mind is a develish bastard that plays tricks on you. when you're looking for something all of a sudden your mind blocks out what you're looking for. then when you find it you're like "god i am so stupid!".
2006-11-13 12:38:26 · answer #6 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who said that?
2006-11-13 12:34:52 · answer #7 · answered by Ray P 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋