OT: Stupid brains and spatial awareness

But if you're like me, you don't realise how far above your eyes your head goes.

Yes, that's why they have signs.

To the side, which is important when driving.

That we don't realise our eyes are in the middle of our heads, not near the top.

Sounds cool. Hopefully one day science will do something really useful and fix your sight. Medicine is pathetically far behind everything else.

Yes.

Then I'm really glad I'm not you. My eyes have pretty much been in the same place with regard ot my head since I can remmeber being able to walk.

I thought you claimed your eyes could see everything can't you see when you're head will hit something.

I thought you said you could see an 200 degrees. You know women can see a bit more don't you. Think it;s about 215 from memeory.

Wow my eyes have pretty much been in the same place my whole life, I've sort of got used to them were they are over the years.

Most people when asked to draw a face will not put the eyes far enough down.

I see the low beam, but misjudge where my head is.

From left to right.

Bullshit.

That proves that the brain tells you what you see rather than your eyes .

I'm lucky I've got used to were my head is, on my neck just above the shoulders is where I normally find mine ;-)

So you don't have up/down vision

If it;s there they can see it yes.

They can certainly see it in your posts we all can.

Your brain is fooled by hair.

I meant where the top of my head is in relation to my eyes.

Everybody has wider vision sideways. Think of the position of the eyes relative to each other.

The variance is more than that.

Mine isn't

That distance hasnt significantly changed for me over the eyes and if it did I can account for it.

and we have up down vision too. Well most of us.

I see you're an expert on that too. ;-)

Most are, hence art teachers telling you to draw the eyes further down.

But the brain doesn't seem to realise the head goes so far up.

What?

Not as much as side to side.

Agreed. I have never pretended to be hot.

Maybe the art teacher is wrong for telling you your eyes are further down. Maybe that's you'e problem you've been told to draw your eyes on knees thats why you can't see beams above yuor head.

SO it's your brain not your eys that are at fault which is what I said originally.

Where ever an art teachers saqys my eyes are is irrelivant to me ask picasso !

because we don't need it perhaps eveolution seems to nhave worked for most of us perhaps you were missed out.

Only find that a problem when wearing a hard-hat - those damn thins are the cause of more bangs to the head than anything else!

Never found a problem there.

SteveW

Health and softy always shoots itself in the foot.

Maybe you've got a small er.... pair of feet.

No, Mr Sword has the problem because he always forgets to take the clown outfit off.

Nah H&S wouldn't allow yuo a bullet unless yuo were trained in firearms. Knowing you you'd probbaly miss anyway.

I:m not sure many iof any have that problem, otherwise you'd see loads of people falling over but it;s not the sort of thing yuo see happeneing unless you spend the whole day searching on youtube.

Grow up.

Brains are really smart, they learn after a bump and a lump??

It seems there are exceptions to this rule ;-)