Would your brain explode/implode if you were eyes were looking directly into one another?

Question

A work colleague of mine believes that your brain would explode/impode if you were to hold your eyes (out of your head but still attached) looking into one another.

His reasoning is that the brain would not be able to process what is happening.

Any suggestions or comments I can pass his way?

Answer 1

Try looking in a mirror? In fact the brain's very good at processing "misleading" information from the eyes - the human eye has a simple lens, so the image on the retina is inverted and suffers from chromatic aberration. We still see the world the right way up though and without coloured fringes. Experiments have been carried out with volunteers wearing inverting goggles so their vision was turned upside down. They quickly adjusted and saw things the right way up.

Answer 2

I understand the concept of your question, but there's a huge difference between how it's done with video cameras and monitors, and what will happen with eyes "looking at each other". With a video camera, you can display what it sees with a monitor, so that weird things happen if the video camera is pointed at its own display. You'd have a recursive process because of this feedback loop, and your colleague suggests that this could cause "your brain to explode". The trouble is, when one eye is looking into another eye, it does not see in the other eye any image, except just the boring retina. So there's no feedback loop, and no complications, and your brain does not explode. However, having your eyes pulled out and looking at each other could be a disturbing display for other people.

Answer 3

The tendons and muscles that hold the eye in its socket would not allow that type of rotation. That being said -

If your eye saw another on of your own eye....that exactly what would happen. Your brain processes what each eye sees seperatly and then combines them into the whole picture. As such The brain's reaction would only be "extreem" if the situation of the person was considered torturous or "extreem". (Like if your eyes were being held by force to look into one another.)

Answer 4

no. and the image would be blurred because the minimum distance at which you can clearly distinguish stuff is 20 cm or if there were a distance...we'd be percieving things like chicken or snails...don't you think a snail's eyes have faced one another at least once? did theyr brain implode/explode...we'd get a disrupted image

each eye sees an image...it doesn't matter what the thing it sees is...and physically well, the nerve and the muscles wouldn't let the eyes move

Answer 5

My partner is an optician and he reckons that the worse thing that would happen would be that your brain would be trying to make one image out of two separate images and you'd probably get a headache. Of course if your eyeballs were dangling out of your sockets then you probably would get a headache anyway. It is also impossible to do as the other answerer said above because of the muscles.

Answer 6

There's very little scientific information to support his theory. I don't think a brain has ever exploded inside a head has it?

Answer 7

Pull his eyes out with a blunt spoon and see

Answer 8

You can do it without taking your eyes out! Hold two mirrors up near your eyes and angle them so each one gives a reflection of the other eye! BOOM!

Answer 9

why do they not do that when you look in the mirror?

you may faint from the pain of it, but brains dont implode or explode is he mad?

Answer 10

you may pass out, i don't think your brain would go bang