How Did She Do That 2017-12-27
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2017 12:56 am
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Mounted on the wall behind the espresso machine.Dave wrote: You must admit it's a trifle unusual; most baristas I know have no more than one goat-like head.
At the really "in" coffee shops, the goat-like head is the espresso machine. When the barista pulls an espresso, the steam makes the usual hissing sound, and the eyes light up a bright glaring red.Opus the Poet wrote:Mounted on the wall behind the espresso machine.Dave wrote: You must admit it's a trifle unusual; most baristas I know have no more than one goat-like head.
It's a little more complicated than that. The nerve fibers from the nasal side of each eye's retina cross to the other side, but the fibers from the ear side go straight back. That way, vision of the left field of view (i.e., right half of each retina) is processed by the right brain and vice-versa. Apparently it makes it easier to get the two views to jibe if they're processed together. My point is that closing one eye cuts out half of the input to each half of the brain, not all of the input to one side.eee wrote:I wonder how that works. The optic nerve pathways are crossed, so closing your left eye would cut your right brain out of the system and your left brain would be the only one processing what you're seeing.
Ah, good to know!Dr. Otter wrote:It's a little more complicated than that. The nerve fibers from the nasal side of each eye's retina cross to the other side, but the fibers from the ear side go straight back. That way, vision of the left field of view (i.e., right half of each retina) is processed by the right brain and vice-versa. Apparently it makes it easier to get the two views to jibe if they're processed together. My point is that closing one eye cuts out half of the input to each half of the brain, not all of the input to one side.eee wrote:I wonder how that works. The optic nerve pathways are crossed, so closing your left eye would cut your right brain out of the system and your left brain would be the only one processing what you're seeing.
Because they believe it works?eee wrote: . . . Still doesn't explain how this works, though. . . .
It could be more symbolic that physiological. Closing one eye (at the suggestion of a demon or para) could be a psychological trigger - "I let go of the normal way of seeing things. I'm ready to look at the world in a different way."eee wrote:Still doesn't explain how this works, though. In fact, if both sides of the brain are involved, shutting one eye should just eliminate or reduce depth perception and not have any other effect. So it's still inexplicable...
Nuclear plants, gods, vampires and all sorts of other para stuff and your stuck on figuring out why closing one eye lets you see the para stuff? ooookkkkkeee wrote:Ah, good to know!Dr. Otter wrote:It's a little more complicated than that. The nerve fibers from the nasal side of each eye's retina cross to the other side, but the fibers from the ear side go straight back. That way, vision of the left field of view (i.e., right half of each retina) is processed by the right brain and vice-versa. Apparently it makes it easier to get the two views to jibe if they're processed together. My point is that closing one eye cuts out half of the input to each half of the brain, not all of the input to one side.eee wrote:I wonder how that works. The optic nerve pathways are crossed, so closing your left eye would cut your right brain out of the system and your left brain would be the only one processing what you're seeing.
Still doesn't explain how this works, though. In fact, if both sides of the brain are involved, shutting one eye should just eliminate or reduce depth perception and not have any other effect. So it's still inexplicable...
("Just repeat to yourself "It's just a show,
I should really just relax")
The Akashic records are written from right to left?eee wrote:I wonder how that works. The optic nerve pathways are crossed, so closing your left eye would cut your right brain out of the system and your left brain would be the only one processing what you're seeing. So why does that allow humans to see into the Etheric Realms?
Maybe she's been filled in on the basics already. If she's discovered that the annoying girl she's been working with and pranking for several years is an 80,000-year-old sphinx, that might have already gotten her through the confused shock part of the learning. Besides, Tina would look like a Happy Beast of the Cheerful Apocalypse at least. "The End is nigh. . .have some pie and hot cocoa!"Anyway, she's taking all this - Castela being a Blackthorn / human hybrid, Tine looking like the Beast of the Apocalypse - quite well...
That would imply that it's some distinction between the different eyes' abilities, then, rather than some processing in the brain. Or demons just enjoy messing with people, and so they arbitrarily decided that they'd let themselves sometimes be visible if somebody closes their left eye.eee wrote:In fact, if both sides of the brain are involved, shutting one eye should just eliminate or reduce depth perception and not have any other effect. So it's still inexplicable...
Details are important!oldmanmickey wrote:Nuclear plants, gods, vampires and all sorts of other para stuff and your stuck on figuring out why closing one eye lets you see the para stuff? ooookkkkkeee wrote: Ah, good to know!
Still doesn't explain how this works, though. In fact, if both sides of the brain are involved, shutting one eye should just eliminate or reduce depth perception and not have any other effect. So it's still inexplicable...
("Just repeat to yourself "It's just a show,
I should really just relax")
"Belasario's Maxim"eee wrote: ("Just repeat to yourself "It's just a show,
I should really just relax")