I loved it! It reminds me of the story of the woman from Australia or was it England who was used to driving on the left side of the road and a car with the steering wheel on the right side of the car (wow, that was hard to write - left or right side?)
Anyway, the woman was visiting in the US - was rushing to an appointment jumped into the rental car - and immediately thought! Oh, my! Crime is so bad in the US they are even stealing steering wheels from cars! She sat there stunned for several minutes, before realizing the “evidence” was just to the left of her…she was sitting on the passenger side of the car.
How often do I miss things simply because my view of the thing/world is too narrow - all I need to do is look to the right or left to see the “steering wheel”.
This reminded me of this site, which has some other really interesting demo videos on “change blindness” (observer not noticing changes to color or other details of a scene). Helen, you had posted a video in 2006 which had been used in a psychology experiment, in which a gorilla walks unnoticed through a group of people playing ball (”inattentional blindness”). I ended up watching all of the clips on this site, & musing about attention, observation, visual illusions, etc.
Anyway, that site has a bunch of clips in which several things about a scene change right in front of your eyes but don’t catch your attention. Really interesting!
I was reading on Hemants blog, I think…there are others who self identify as christian humanists. And some who self identify as spiritual humanists. How ’bout that? And a year ago I thought that was sooo “out there”. Heh.
Thanks for the site link, Eliza. Hey I don’t remember posting that other gorilla video. Seriously. I’m feeling worse and worse about my ability to pay attention!
Julie Marie, do you feel relieved or annoyed that you aren’t as out there as you thought?
Comment by: Elaine
1I loved it! It reminds me of the story of the woman from Australia or was it England who was used to driving on the left side of the road and a car with the steering wheel on the right side of the car (wow, that was hard to write - left or right side?)
Anyway, the woman was visiting in the US - was rushing to an appointment jumped into the rental car - and immediately thought! Oh, my! Crime is so bad in the US they are even stealing steering wheels from cars! She sat there stunned for several minutes, before realizing the “evidence” was just to the left of her…she was sitting on the passenger side of the car.
How often do I miss things simply because my view of the thing/world is too narrow - all I need to do is look to the right or left to see the “steering wheel”.
Comment by: Helen
2Thanks for your comment, Elaine. Yes, it’s amazing how much we miss. I liked how this video highlighted that.
Comment by: Eliza
3Cool! It’s so amazing what we don’t notice!
This reminded me of this site, which has some other really interesting demo videos on “change blindness” (observer not noticing changes to color or other details of a scene). Helen, you had posted a video in 2006 which had been used in a psychology experiment, in which a gorilla walks unnoticed through a group of people playing ball (”inattentional blindness”). I ended up watching all of the clips on this site, & musing about attention, observation, visual illusions, etc.
Anyway, that site has a bunch of clips in which several things about a scene change right in front of your eyes but don’t catch your attention. Really interesting!
Comment by: NCxian
4Did you all notice the gorilla in this video?
Comment by: julie marie
5HI MC!!
I did notice that gorilla ;)
I was reading on Hemants blog, I think…there are others who self identify as christian humanists. And some who self identify as spiritual humanists. How ’bout that? And a year ago I thought that was sooo “out there”. Heh.
Comment by: Helen
6I saw two gorillas :)
Thanks for the site link, Eliza. Hey I don’t remember posting that other gorilla video. Seriously. I’m feeling worse and worse about my ability to pay attention!
Julie Marie, do you feel relieved or annoyed that you aren’t as out there as you thought?
Comment by: julie marie
7Helen–
Haha. Both!
and I meant to say Hi NC, not Hi MC :)