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> I really wanted to touch it. I bet it would’ve been weird to feel it as you looked at it. You can get that weird feel by walking around an indoor space with

> I really wanted to touch it. I bet it would’ve been weird to feel it as you looked at it. You can get that weird feel by walking around an indoor space with only one eye open. When I do that, it feels as though all the (varied) colors I see are flat paint strokes lying on some flat surface at some undefined distance from me (as if my perception was stripped of all distance content). I become comically bad at simple tasks like reaching for the door handle or the light switch. When I use my hands to touch the wall it feels like I'm touching something that I'm not seeing (even though I'm looking right at it!)

richardwhiuk 3y ago
Note, this depends on how much your brain relies on different signals for 3D. There are plenty of people who don't have binocular vision, who learn to rely on other signals for 3D. See the cues at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth_perception https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth_perception for some other cues that you may use.
- joveian 3y ago
  Or even some of us who do. Nothing looks the slightest bit different to me with one eye closed (unless it is close enough to have an obvious double or one of those 3d popout thingies, which I have a hard time seeing). I did check quick and it seems I might have occasional differences picking stuff up when I first close an eye but most of the time it is fine. One of my eyes has been non-trivially worse than the other for at least most of my life, although it isn't all that bad (but it does involve some astigmatism so maybe because of that my brain found it easier to not bother much with the binocular stuff).
IggleSniggle 3y ago
There are many ways to achieve this state; closing one eye is a shortcut that may work for some. For me, achieving extremely high focus on a difficult problem will also induce this state, as my brain filters out all incoming signals to become singularly focused on the problem. If I'm pulled out suddenly to attend to something totally unrelated, I'll often be distracted by appreciating just how altered my senses are until they reacclimatize to "normal."

richardwhiuk 3y ago

Note, this depends on how much your brain relies on different signals for 3D. There are plenty of people who don't have binocular vision, who learn to rely on other signals for 3D. See the cues at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth_perception https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth_perception for some other cues that you may use.

joveian 3y ago
Or even some of us who do. Nothing looks the slightest bit different to me with one eye closed (unless it is close enough to have an obvious double or one of those 3d popout thingies, which I have a hard time seeing). I did check quick and it seems I might have occasional differences picking stuff up when I first close an eye but most of the time it is fine. One of my eyes has been non-trivially worse than the other for at least most of my life, although it isn't all that bad (but it does involve some astigmatism so maybe because of that my brain found it easier to not bother much with the binocular stuff).

IggleSniggle 3y ago

There are many ways to achieve this state; closing one eye is a shortcut that may work for some. For me, achieving extremely high focus on a difficult problem will also induce this state, as my brain filters out all incoming signals to become singularly focused on the problem. If I'm pulled out suddenly to attend to something totally unrelated, I'll often be distracted by appreciating just how altered my senses are until they reacclimatize to "normal."