Mind craft

I love games especially the kind that make you use your brain. I love anything that makes me challenge my knowledge. When I was kid I loved getting those pictures in class that could be interpreted into 2 different images. Like the picture of a young face but it was actually an entire portrait of an old lady. This is considered a type of optical illusion. Optical Illusions can use color, light and patterns to create images that can be deceptive or misleading to our brains. The information gathered by the eye is processed by the brain, creating a perception that in reality, does not match the true image. Perception refers to the interpretation of what we take in through our eyes. Optical illusions occur because our brain is trying to interpret what we see and make sense of the world around us. Optical illusions simply trick our brains into seeing things which may or may not be real.

So if our brain is trying to make sense of what we see,  how many times have we seen an optical illusion without even realizing it was one. When I think back I've practically lived in an optical illusion lol. From my home life when I was younger up into a few months ago I was in an actual wonderland. I thought that just because something looked good, sounded good, it was good. If it walked like a duck and talked like a duck, I thought it was a duck when it was actually a snake. It's funny how long I've been doing this. Fooling myself that if I make things appear a certain way that's what it actually was.

 I know so many people who do this and the sad part is it's not something we just picked up. It was engrained in us. To never let anyone know what's truly going on. To sweep it under the rug and to never talk about. To stay in an abusive relationship. To suffer in silence through sexual assault. To stay around toxicity because at least you won't be alone. One of my very good friends asked me once, if it was better for me to have a bad friend than no friend at all? I stupidly answered that it was better to have a bad friend. 

It's time to start seeing things and treating things how they actually are instead of what we want them to be. No more optical illusions, no more abstracts. But a portrait of what we are actually looking at. 

"What do you see???"