Seeing is – not always – believing

By Prof. Madbush Simeleketek

As they say, “Seeing is believing”, and I say, “…isn’t it?”

We could not see everything…

We could not see in the dark…

We could not see when or where there’s no light…

We could not see every kind of light.

Our sights are very limited.

Can we take a look at our own head? Seeing our own hair, eyes and ears? Of course, we can do that; by seeing the reflection of ourselves at the mirror. We need a mirror to see our own head and eyes, unless if we can see them through somebody else’s eyes – which it’s relatively impossible. By using similar technique, that’s how we can see our own galaxy.

Please, take a look for a while at the picture below…

Figure 1.

From the picture above, what do you see? Does it describe something? Maybe there will be various perceptions when looking at it.

Based on the simple figure 1 above; there is a combination of black, white, grey, brown, light-blue and light-green colors. But what’s that really mean anyway? What’s the story that the picture want to tell us about?

If I say there’s a white-shadowed-ball on the black-floor and there’s a mirror attached on the light-blue-wall and there’s also the light-green-wall behind the ball; then the story become more clearly, perhaps. There’s a ball with its reflection showed at the mirror.

Seeing is essential…

Believing is also essential…

But understanding is the most essential.

Sometimes we are not always understood of what we’ve saw… and what we’ve believed.

Sometimes our minds and our eyes play tricks on us.

Take a look at different picture below…

Figure 2.

What do you see right now? There are a bigger ball and/or a smaller mirror, aren’t there?

What if I say that the ball and the mirror at figure 2 above are the same ball and the same mirror at previous picture (figure 1)? How could that be looks so differently? We even couldn’t see the reflection of the ball at the mirror…

To explain this “phenomenon”, lets us take a look at these pictures below…

Does the monkey looks bigger than anything else?





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