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momsalive1Some pictures a friend sent that are supposed to indicate how well you handle stress...
The more they move, the less well you handle stress. Immediately, of course, I wonder how I can slow them down, without having a clue about whether there are any data to back this up, or whether the amount of motion I see is the same as someone who handles stress well.
What do you think? Does it make sense to you that the way your brain interprets a visual illusion would be related to your ability to handle stress? And that it would be related in this way?
Which gets us to how to measure stress. And what is stress.
And now I notice that these smaller thumbnails move less than the bigger images you get when you click on them. Maybe that is just that the images are a stressor, and they are easier to handle if they are smaller.....interesting.
The more they move, the less well you handle stress. Immediately, of course, I wonder how I can slow them down, without having a clue about whether there are any data to back this up, or whether the amount of motion I see is the same as someone who handles stress well.
What do you think? Does it make sense to you that the way your brain interprets a visual illusion would be related to your ability to handle stress? And that it would be related in this way?
Which gets us to how to measure stress. And what is stress.
And now I notice that these smaller thumbnails move less than the bigger images you get when you click on them. Maybe that is just that the images are a stressor, and they are easier to handle if they are smaller.....interesting.
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Date: 2006-02-16 05:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-16 05:35 am (UTC)If you are dead, then I am dead, and we are in heaven. **looks around** Nope, no Mr. Delicious stepping out of the shower and wondering which one of us is first. So we are not dead. However, they say that the better you handle stress the longer you live, so evidently I will get to him first.
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Date: 2006-02-16 05:48 am (UTC)......whimpers.....THUD!
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Date: 2006-02-17 04:16 pm (UTC)**tries to be sympathetic but licks lips in anticipation instead**
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Date: 2006-02-16 06:07 am (UTC)Yo, Stress Queen here...
This is interesting.
Top two don't move at all, and the third one, actually, is quite, I don't know...lulling? All slow and dreamy-like.
Hmmmm...
Thanks, that was neat.
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Date: 2006-02-16 04:15 pm (UTC)I never got back to you about "Blink". I want to read that and I'm glad to know that when I do I'll have someone to talk about it with.
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Date: 2006-02-16 05:46 pm (UTC)And yep, I'll be happy to dish about "Blink" with you.
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Date: 2006-02-16 07:54 am (UTC)It must be the way they are "highlighted" with white and black. I think it is how your eye sees the edges of the dots, so as your eyes move the black/white contrast makes them look as though they are moving.
Don't think it will have any relevance to stress. It is not the image area you are looking straight at (sorry about grammar - I suppose I mean focussing on) as that is always still. It is periferal sight. So it must relate to how much your eyes move.
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Date: 2006-02-16 04:22 pm (UTC)Maybe so - when I look with one eye they don't move as much. I wonder why we (you, I and babiecuz; ffiondove is a rock of calm) see the different ones move at different speeds. I see them all at the same speed more or less, and you two don't.
A way to link this to stress - is it a myth that people who are lying shift their eyes more? Maybe that is a symptom of stress?
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Date: 2006-02-16 05:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-16 05:50 pm (UTC)Hmmmm...
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Date: 2006-02-16 06:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-17 04:18 pm (UTC)Dang.