Training can over come to this. Attention to detail, a paranoid mind, and a lot of training. But even with training it is still difficult. I also think that the natural human reaction to authority has something to do with this. A person who has enough sense to read what they are signing would probably, I think, notice the difference between one guy and the other.

I would wonder why not noticing is a normal thing. It shouldn't be normal. I also think that its normal because there is no danger involved there. No incentive for adaptation. I think if each one of those people who didn't notice got electrocuted when they didn't notice they would notice in a similar experiment.

This reminds me of some of the tricks that Darren Brown does. When he pays with white paper instead of real currency, or when he takes stuff from the Russian guy and walks off.

This is a good book from Oreilly called Mind Hacks. It talks about alot of cool things. From blind spots, to Cognition, Noticing, and Attention Span.

Next up, should overweight people have to pay more tax into the health system than skinny people?

It is fascinating how liberals quickly apply the 'slippery slope' to abortion but refuse to acknowledge the slipperly slope of how government will regulate human life far beyond abortions. Rage over privacy issues with the Patriot Act, and mewling subservience to open books for government to 'more efficiently' run your health care. Whine like mules that private corporations are 'too big, rich, and powerful' but a total blind spot with government being bigger and having more power/money than any entity on earth.

The small percentage of 'poor uninsured' can be helped with state programs, municipal level clinics, and voluntary charitable donations. 1.3 trillion to a government agency is absolutely unecessary, wasteful, and philosophically dangerous. We're all better off with a private system, warts and all. Give government this kind of power and you'll regret it. Government cannot be trusted. It will inevitably abuse the power. It is better to never let them have it. Got a beef with a private company? Government is a great place to list your grievences. Government as a supervisory and regulatory entity is fine. Government PARTICIPATING in the process is a horrible mistake. It always has been, and always will be.

Take note, you should only beat a dead horse.

It's common knowledge (I thought) for anyone working around horses: Never stand directly behind a horse. That's their blind spot and they can easily be spooked. Even docile, friendly horses will react like this if you scare the shit out of them.

Yeah, sorry 'bout that .

[e:]Anybody else think those goons know exactly where that camera blind spot is?

Seems like a stretch to call this #brain to me, but fair enough.

The brain is much more involved than that: it is the reason we usually do not notice our blind-spot, because it fills in that spot. if it was just our eyes, we'd see two black spots on either side.

>> ^WaterDweller:
Heard about the blindspot before, and that it could be easily pointed out to someone, but never knew how. This seems to be working for making my fingertip or webcam vanish as well, now that I know roughly where it is. Fun to move things in and out of the spot, watching them disappear.

Its also fun to do the trick on others, get a pencil with a red rubber on the end (or something similar), tell them to cover their eye, look at nose with the other. Move the pencil slowly around the area where their blind spot should be, which should be on eye-level and slightly to the side.

It's not brain, it's eye.
Our brain "fills in" that blind spot most of the time, which is why it takes an experiment like this to discover it.

It's not magic, not a mystery and not psychology, it's basic biology.

Nor is spoonbending, levitation, cardtricks,or vanishing acts "magic". I dont think magic even exists, but this, like the above mentioned tricks and illusions, has that "wow, thats magic!" feel to it, so I placed it in magic. It also feels mysterious, and I never mentioned Psychology.

It's not an illusion.

Our blindspot isnt, but the feeling that we dont have one IS actually an illusion, because, as I say, our brain "fills in" that blank spot, and thats actually also demonstrated with the black stick in the video.

I find it works best if you are about a regular distance from your display in my case I closed/covered my RIGHT eye, and my left eye was about 55 cm from the screen.
Note: It DOES NOT work if you cover the wrong eye,because your blind spot is to the left of your left eye, and to the right of your right eye.

So you HAVE to cover your RIGHT eye and LOOK at the cross with the LEFT EYE. if you want to try the other eye (or if are blind on your left eye), focus on a point to the left of your screen in equal distance to the head as the X

I've heard about cases in other parts of the country where renters were evicted without warning due to the owner's delinquency. Surely this is a blind spot in the law. It is absolutely not reasonable to evict a renter with no prior warning, especially if they have been making payments to someone who is not in turn paying the mortgage. I know some places that have addressed this, but not LV apparently.

It's that kind of passive indifference that makes the roads so annoyingly scary... drivers just pass it off on us bikers... Oh I see you guys riding like retards so you deserve what you get. That kind of backwards logic doesn't work with you car-tards... I see people driving their cars like they are friggin' RETARDED and I don't assume its all car drivers are like that. I have never ridden past an auto accident and think... well he was probably speeding... that's what you get. I ride my bike because it saves me gas and is easier to use in the city I live in. Not because I have some romanticized idea of being a bad boy. I wear full ballistics and armor... I have taken multiple classes about evasive riding and how to act in a major crash.

This advert is merely asking you guys to just keep a better look out for bikers because we are harder to see... is that so frikkin hard for you to understand??? Seriously? I wear a bright yellow suit on my bright yellow bike... I make sure not to ride in blind spots... I don't weave in and out of traffic yet almost once a week I have some unconscious assclown almost run me off the road because he was too dratting lazy to glance in his sideview mirror for more than a millisecond.

I can't count how many times I have had someone pull out in front of me because they are looking the other way... You guys to should take the MSF course or maybe ride with a friend if you can. Get a little perspective before calling this advert out for being a "scare tactic".

The real roads are far scarier than this.

It's not a blind spot...it's completely intentional. After all, they can't find any -facts- to support their stance, so they -have- to "create" some.

And I just love that Glen Beck can't see that he does EVERYTHING he says pro-global warming guys do about most subjects. Fox has a huge blind spot.

My auras are very strange. Sometimes I get electrical patters, sometimes not.

However, I always get blind spots. Imagine looking directly at someone's face and not being able to see their left eye. It isn't obstructed, nor is there a "hole" in my vision. It simply looks like there is skin with no features there. The blind spot is relative to my center of vision, so if I look directly at their eye it will reappear, but their ear will disappear (for example). Sometimes I will lose all peripheral vision, but the blind spots only seem to affect detail... all the color is still there.

Migraine pain is nothing like a normal headache for me. It is a very intense, specific, sharp pain... like a spike being jammed into my brain. I cannot function in that state... I just lay down and void out all of my thoughts (any thought or stimulus causes more pain). Also, imagine full-body nausea... it's a terrible feeling. It usually subsides after about 6 hours.

Edit: I have not been able to find any cause for my migraines. My mother, however, knows that hers can be set off by cinnamon of all things.

Oh yes I tried Maxalt before my neurologist prescribed me that one but did not work for me as many others ,I am glad work for you,tastes good too like with a mint flavor he he




In reply to this comment by mintbbb:
Luckily I don't have more than one or two migraines a year any more, but the medicine I am on now is called Maxalt (WikiPedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxalt) .. it is the only one that works really fast and does a decent job. Granted, every now and then I still end up thrwoing up and having a ghost headache, but if I have a slight case, it works great.

I used toi have medicine that contained ergotamine (cafergot). It did help with the severe pain, but it still made me puke pretty much after every migraine attack.

Maxalt is great, thiught I think there is a better-known substitute for that - I am jst going with what my (well hubby;s) heatlt-care plan will cover. But you just let a little pill melt on your tongue as soon as you see the frsit symptoms of blind spots/aura.

I am sure if you check the web you can find out better known drugs that Maxalt. I know there were lots of advertisements on TV about something.. I asked my doctor about it, and he said 'Maxalt' becausre that was covered by the insurance plan I have..

Good luck, I DO hope you find a good drug! Thery have lots of good ones today, just keep bugging your doctor!



In reply to this comment by LadyDeath:
What Meds are you taking? I suffer from really bad chronic migraines,I am on topamax and even that my head feels everyday that is going explode

In reply to this comment by mintbbb:
I suffer from classic migraines. I have the aura and attack phases.. My aura makes me partly blind, and also makes fingers and toes go numb.. fun!

Just watching this video makes me nauseous because it so reminds me of a migraine! Thank God I have medicine now that stops the most severe symptoms. Before the medicine I felt like I'd rather cut off my head than have another migraine.. Just imagine having a steel belt around your head that's been tightened over and over again, until you feel like your head is about the explode.. And then include some serious nausea and vomiting to the mix!

Yes, if I didn't have any prescription medications, I'd rather have my head cut off. Period! Worst pain ever.

Luckily I don't have more than one or two migraines a year any more, but the medicine I am on now is called Maxalt (WikiPedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxalt) .. it is the only one that works really fast and does a decent job. Granted, every now and then I still end up thrwoing up and having a ghost headache, but if I have a slight case, it works great.

I used toi have medicine that contained ergotamine (cafergot). It did help with the severe pain, but it still made me puke pretty much after every migraine attack.

Maxalt is great, thiught I think there is a better-known substitute for that - I am jst going with what my (well hubby;s) heatlt-care plan will cover. But you just let a little pill melt on your tongue as soon as you see the frsit symptoms of blind spots/aura.

I am sure if you check the web you can find out better known drugs that Maxalt. I know there were lots of advertisements on TV about something.. I asked my doctor about it, and he said 'Maxalt' becausre that was covered by the insurance plan I have..

Good luck, I DO hope you find a good drug! Thery have lots of good ones today, just keep bugging your doctor!



In reply to this comment by LadyDeath:
What Meds are you taking? I suffer from really bad chronic migraines,I am on topamax and even that my head feels everyday that is going explode

In reply to this comment by mintbbb:
I suffer from classic migraines. I have the aura and attack phases.. My aura makes me partly blind, and also makes fingers and toes go numb.. fun!

Just watching this video makes me nauseous because it so reminds me of a migraine! Thank God I have medicine now that stops the most severe symptoms. Before the medicine I felt like I'd rather cut off my head than have another migraine.. Just imagine having a steel belt around your head that's been tightened over and over again, until you feel like your head is about the explode.. And then include some serious nausea and vomiting to the mix!

Yes, if I didn't have any prescription medications, I'd rather have my head cut off. Period! Worst pain ever.