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Thursday, 2006 May 18, 17:21 — me!me!me!

the panes of perception

Once, years ago, I got new eyeglasses and was startled because the world seemed flat. I had come to rely on blur as a distance cue, and that was suddenly taken from me. The effect was brief; binocularity reasserted itself within a few hours.

I had a similar experience today, leaving a car wash: for a moment I confused the view in the newly clean side-mirror with the forward view around it.

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