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Dupan, Alyssa Gem L. BAP-3A

The documentary tested the viewer's perception with various optical illusions. It started with two gray boxes that appeared to be different colors due to their angles, though they were the same shade. Shadows play a role in how we perceive an object's position. The brain cross-references sensory input with memories to identify objects and determine their location using depth cues, though these can trick perception. The documentary showed that perception is based more on the mind's interpretation than objective reality.

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Dupan, Alyssa Gem L. BAP-3A

The documentary tested the viewer's perception with various optical illusions. It started with two gray boxes that appeared to be different colors due to their angles, though they were the same shade. Shadows play a role in how we perceive an object's position. The brain cross-references sensory input with memories to identify objects and determine their location using depth cues, though these can trick perception. The documentary showed that perception is based more on the mind's interpretation than objective reality.

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DUPAN, ALYSSA GEM L.

BAP-3A

TEST YOUR BRAIN: PERCEPTION

The documentary that we watched is all about perception and the brain. They gave us a
series of tests or illusions, to challenge our ability to see or not to see, to feel or not to feel and to
hear or not to hear things. They started out with a mind-boggling question that made me think:
how did our brain took the information from our senses, to build a trustworthy reality for us?
Starting with the 2 gray boxes, which are the same shade of color, but with different angles, it
appeared that there are different colors at first. With illusions, we see the world in a different
way. For me, when they asked if the two boxes are the same or different color, I immediately
said yes because I’m used to seeing illusions in the internet or from the past lessons ever since
high school. Shadows play an important part to help us determine an object, and how we see its
position in space. The process begins with the light reflected by this object is converted by the
eyes into an electrical signal and is sent down the optic nerve, the image then, is cross-referenced
with memories of past information stored in the brain which helps in trying to identify the object.
Once identified, the brain has to decide the object’s position in space, using shadows. They
moved on into proving that color is all on the mind. The next topic is about depth and perception
cues, which I think is the most common out of all and it tricks me every time. The documentary
continued on giving tests and illusions, and later on focused on the things that we hear or not
hear.

For me, this short film is very informative and the examples given really explained the
topics well. The tests and illusions showed us that the brain can be tricked and that not
everything that we see, is really that certain thing. This made me think, because it’s really
unsettling thinking that every single thing around us is not really what it seems to be. Just hold
that thought and really think about that. The objects that we see may not really be in that color or
in that shape, depending on different perspectives. The sounds that we hear may not really be the
real sound from the object or person. All in all, this short film answers the questions that I have
in mind regarding all this things. They gave us questions, but they provided not just answers, but
also examples for it.

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