When we see, are we really looking at an 'upside down' image of everything?

Question

for example, I've heard that we in actuality appear 'upside down' (i.e, our legs are in the twelve o' clock position and our head is in the six o' clock position). Is this true?

Answer 1

Just as in a camera, the image of an object you see enters the eye and is inverted both upside-down and right-to-left. The brain must "learn" how to interpret the image on the retinal to make sense of it and our mind "sees" the image right-side-up and objects on our right are "seen" on our right. In fact it is believed that right handedness is required (one side dominates) to keep the situation under control. Of course lefties do the same thing with a dominant left handedness.

Answer 2

As light passes through the eye the image is inverted and projected on retina upside down. The brain has been seeing things this way since you were born and is all it has ever known. There have been studies done by giving people glasses to 'un-invert' the image. The brain is able to relearn and allow the subject to function normally after a few days.

Answer 3

The brain rectifies this. The eyes register upside-down and reversed images.
If you wear lenses that make the world appear upside-down for a period of time, the brain will re-adjust so that everything appears rightside-up again.

Answer 4

Yes. The lenses of your eyes produce an upside down image on your retnia in your eye. Your brain interprets that image and inverts it.

Answer 5

That depends on whether the world is upside-down or rightside-up to begin with.

Answer 6

yes you are looking at images upside down but our brain translate them right side up

Answer 7

yes, it enters your eye upside down, but is then flipped again and projected onto your retina right side up.

Answer 8

dont know