What disconcerts me I think is does the leftness of the scenes mean they are not real? Just made up
We see the world upside down. That’s how our eyes send the image to our brains. Our brains turn them right side up. Put on a pair of goggles that turns the world upside down? 3 days later, the world will be rightside up, again. Because the brain has compensated for the goggles and “fixed” it. Know what happens when you take the goggles off??? Yep. The world is upside down. Again. Takes 3 more days for the brain to adjust, again.
The point of this cool little scientific factoid... is that what we SEE is always interpreted by our noggins. Even at such a basic level as which way is “up”.
Another cool fact (these both relate, I promise)
We don’t have color vision in our periphery. We just don’t. Everything that isn’t dead center in our field of view is actually shown to our brain in Black & White. (You can test this by having someone with different color flags walk up from behind you.
Without looking at them try and tell what color the flag is. Keep trying, until you can. It’s freaky. Because everything else will be in color...
except the flag. Almost no one believes this fact until it’s proven to them, so if you don’t believe me, don’t worry. Test it.) WHY does the entire world appear in color, then??? Our brain fills it in. We saw what color everything was when we walked into the room. You might not have
noticed the walls were one of the bazillion shades of off white, but your brain did, and exactly matched the color in the 1/3 of your vision that doesn’t get it. Just coloured it right in. Because that’s what it does. The visual cortex spends a LOT of processing power excluding things, altering things, colouring things, adjusting things... that you never notice... until something goes wrong. (Or someone comes along with freaky little tests).
Okay... relating time...
There’s no particular
reason to see everything first person, except that nature has made that the default. That’s why when we get hypothermic (or our brain is interrupted or distracted in other ways, like fever, or chemicals, bright flashes, hard bonks, etc.) we can float outside of our bodies. Not for real. Our brain knows what we look like, it knows what the world looks like, and voila. You’re seeing shit in 3rd person, instead of 1st person.
Ditto dreams, memories, and disassociation.
Your brain is doing what it ALWAYS does... interpreting visual data & filling in what it thinks needs filling in... it’s just doing it wacky.
