Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!ucsd!sdcsvax!ucsdhub!dcdwest!steve From: steve@dcdwest.UUCP (Steve Meloche) Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: Re: 3-D perceptual abilities Summary: That has happenned to me, too (long ago) Message-ID: <479@dcdwest.UUCP> Date: 22 Feb 89 07:41:54 GMT References: Sender: root@dcdwest.UUCP Organization: ITT Defense Communications, San Diego Lines: 30 In article , po0o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Paul Andrew Olbrich) writes: > 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. ... > ... 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. ... ... > -- > Drew Olbrich > po0o+@andrew.cmu.edu That is a pretty good description of what I remember happening to me a long time ago (elementary school age). As in the previous article, it only happened at night, when I was laying in bed looking at the far wall of my room. Every- thing there would look somehow smaller and farther away, but it was difficult to quantify my observations. Everything looked the same, but different at the same time. I had always figured that it had to do with young age and immaturity of my nervous system, but up till now I have never heard of anybody else experiencing the same effect. Now, does anybody have an explanation? _____ _____ _____ Steven Meloche | ` | ' ` | ' ITT Defense Communications Division | | | San Diego, CA __|__ | | steve!dcdwest!ucsdhub!... (I think)