Thursday, June 29, 2006
Seven Times Down... Eight Times Up.
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This fun illusion works best with faces. My Daruma Doll was a good subject for this one. By the way, it only takes a few seconds to program your visual system with it. You don't need to stare at it for as long as they recommend.
Here is another fun visual. (Both of these are from clicked.)
I was somewhat surprised to learn that these Daruma Dolls are 'wish' dolls: you make a wish, then draw in the pupil of one eye. If the wish is ever realized you are supposed to draw in the other eye. Kootch brought two of them back from Japan some years ago, and both had their eyes already filled in. Two wishes granted, I suppose. The doll is round and weighted at the bottom such that it always returns to the upright position. The head is hollow. The hollow head is Zen symbolism for the meditative state. The weighted bottom is symbolic of the saying, 'Seven times down... eight times up.'
This fun illusion works best with faces. My Daruma Doll was a good subject for this one. By the way, it only takes a few seconds to program your visual system with it. You don't need to stare at it for as long as they recommend.
Here is another fun visual. (Both of these are from clicked.)
I was somewhat surprised to learn that these Daruma Dolls are 'wish' dolls: you make a wish, then draw in the pupil of one eye. If the wish is ever realized you are supposed to draw in the other eye. Kootch brought two of them back from Japan some years ago, and both had their eyes already filled in. Two wishes granted, I suppose. The doll is round and weighted at the bottom such that it always returns to the upright position. The head is hollow. The hollow head is Zen symbolism for the meditative state. The weighted bottom is symbolic of the saying, 'Seven times down... eight times up.'
