chapter 6 blog

The first thing i found interesting in this chapter was about sensation. It involves touch sensations, like i have wondered before why i can tickle my self and it does not tickle, but if somebody else does it makes me want to laugh and get away. after reading this chapter i have concluded that it is because our brains are smart enough to know when we tickle our selves and when it is unexpected from somebody else. Going along with this i found the rubber-hand illusion to be greatly interesting. It is cool, well hot, how our body makes warm+cold=hot. This is really cool and when i got thinking about it when it is really cold out side and you have been out side and you come in to take a shower and i always don't put the water to hot because when i feel it with my hands , which have been in my warm gloves, feels warm. When the water feels warm to my hands and then i put my foot under it to test it, it is true it feels like it is burning, so i basically lived this but never really thought about the why part till reading this chapter.

Another thing i found interesting about this chapter was what do the tastes we taste mean? after reading the chapter I found a cool table that explains about what each taste means. It goes like this, sweet means energy source. That makes sense i guess sugar is basically fuel for our bodies and it is accepted like that. Next is Salty, meaning "sodium essential to physiological processes", i really don't know what that all means but i pretty much took it as you need salt to think. Close? I'm not for sure. Next Sour, i never knew that we take sour as "potentially toxic acid", when we eat sour skittles our brain thinks its toxic acid, well candy is sort of acidic i guess. Moving on bitter mean poisons. So 85 % cocoa chocolate does kinda taste like poison, but its suppose to be good for you so i don't know. Finally, a thing called "Umani" mean "potential to grow and repair tissue". I don't know what "Umani" is but i could use some!

Finally the last thing i found cool is how a little girl has no feeling for pain, i think this would be cool but dangerous. Like the girls mother says, it would be hard for a little girl not to bump in to things and not fall in cry, but yet walk away like it didn't happen. If all little kids where like that there would be a lot of deaths i think. So I'm sort of torn it would be cool for sports you wouldn't feel the concussion pain, but than again you could die. You sprain your ankle and keep playing and then you end up ripping all the ligaments in you foot. So the more i have thought about it, I'm cool with feeling the pain, that little girl is going to have to remember if she thinks that should have hurt to get checked out or she could really be in trouble.

Illusions Blog

I love looking at illusions, but i always worry about getting hypnotized and then breaking my computer. Any way the illusions i looked at were "stepping feet", Stereokinetic Phenomenon, “Rotating Snake” ,Snake Illusion ad lib,Pinna-Brelstaff Illusion,Motion Aftereffect (Waterfall Illusion),Spiral aftereffect, and Roget's ‘Palisade’ Illusion. What i learned from these illusions is that your brain seems to foucus solely on the first thing it sees, and then after a while you see what you are suppose to. What i found surpriseing is when they give you a illusion like Reverse Spoke Illusion when you speed it up it looks as if the lines are moving, but slow it down and you realize that the spokes are not spining. This activity really made me think, maybe when i see something that dosent seem right prolly look again and may really look. Like when you know you put something somewhere and you can not see it because you are looking to fast, it really makes me mad when that happens to me.
These illusion happen all the time in our daily life. It happens to me when people with striped shirts walk by each other and the shirts are different colors and it looks like one big blob.