Our World Is But A Perception

For those who have known me a while, you know that I am fascinated by how our eyes and brains perceive the world. What we "see" isn't always what is there.

The moon is a great example. I tell this often, so bear with me. The moon seems very large when it rises over the horizon early in the evening. Later at night, the moon seems to be quite a bit smaller. The moon has a circular orbit about the earth, so the size difference isn't a result of distance from us. Instead, it has more to do with the distance from the horizon. We see the moon as being larger when there is something to compare. When the moon is high in the sky, it "looks" smaller because we can't compare. You see what isn't there.

In that vein, here is a very interesting paragraph for you to read.

fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too. Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.
i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan
mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde
Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the
frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The
rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mni d
deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a
wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

It is amazing! Of course, this is also why it is so hard to proof read your own work. You see what you want...not what is tehre. ;-)

PS
The best part is that spell check only identified one misspelled word!