Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!po0o+ From: po0o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Paul Andrew Olbrich) Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: Re: 3-D perceptual abilities Message-ID: Date: 21 Feb 89 04:50:37 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 21 This is in reply to Jim Hickstein's earlier comment about losing stereoscopic effect ... Never happened to me, but one thing that does happen to me (and other people I've talked to) is a wierd sensation that everything's suddenly shrunk down an order of magnitude, even though it really looks the same. This happens very infrequently ... once every few months or so. Usually it occurs after I've been staring at a book for a long time, or at a computer screen. It always occurs at night, but I usually am not staying up extremely late when it happens. Usually I get the sensation that I'm atop a very tall building looking down at everything. It's very odd to look down at your own body and still feel that way. I try to shake it off by putting my hands right in front of my face but it usually doesn't work. A simple change of scenery, like getting up and walking to the kitchen, usually dispells the effect. -- Drew Olbrich po0o+@andrew.cmu.edu "Company's coming. Better clean this mess up." -- Kurt Vonnegut