Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!apple!oliveb!felix!dhw68k!thecloud From: thecloud@dhw68k.cts.com (Ken McLeod) Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: Re: 3-D perceptual abilities Message-ID: <20490@dhw68k.cts.com> Date: 2 Mar 89 10:15:14 GMT References: <4230@mtuxo.att.com> Reply-To: thecloud@dhw68k.cts.com.cts.com (Ken McLeod) Organization: Wolfskill & Dowling residence; Anaheim, CA (USA) Lines: 27 In article <4230@mtuxo.att.com> mcripps@mtuxo.att.com (XMP12-M.CRIPPS) writes: >In article , po0o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Paul Andrew Olbrich) writes: > (lines deleted) >> Usually I get the sensation that I'm >> atop a very tall building looking down at everything. It's very odd to >> > [various experiences with ceilings, eyeglasses, etc. deleted] Time for me to add my 2 cents to the pot: I can vividly recall several times when I was lying in bed sick, usually in a dimly-lit room, staring up at a white spray-on acoustic ceiling. No pattern recognition or 3-D layers, though; rather, I would get the sensation that the area of the ceiling was infinitely vast, and that I would somehow have to hold it up or it would come down and crush me like a bug. :-( Depth perception was definitely altered, and the far corner of the room seemed infinitely far away from me. I always attributed this to drugs, though. :-) -k -- ========== ....... ============================================= Ken McLeod :. .: felix!dhw68k!thecloud@ics.uci.edu ========== :::.. ..::: InterNet: thecloud@dhw68k.cts.com //// =============================================