Interesting aspect of the brain

[Jay1]

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[Joon]

Haha, thats pretty cool. Always wondered how my teachers could read my hand written essays at school.

[Ming Xiao]

really interesting, it's hard to believe in, that only 55% are able to read it

[VisualDude]

Surprising/funny, it isn't hard - perhaps having 'to-conquer'/'live-with' messed up vision hones up or skills to understand messed up stuff. A lot of people on DP forums speak of how words/language looks weird/strange. Equally odd is that my spelling (without spell checking) is horrible but not as bad as your example - yet misspellings are more annoying than your example.

You should put this as a poll and see if HPPDers reach or exceed 55% !

[Jay1]

What's interesting is it only really works in a sentence, as your brain is already guessing the next work.

taotl

pboerolm

raed

Those words are not so easy to decipher when not in a sentence.

[VisualDude]

Yes, can't read a word you wrote

This all again underlines that the brain is a "meaning making machine that forms precepts based on experience". With HPPD (and the like), the ability to put it all together smoothly runs amuck. Each individual is affected differently depending on what systems are malfunctioning, compounding diagnosis and treatment.

[martifer]

i could read that as easily as if the words weren't scrambled! weird! happy to be part of the 55% hahahah.

[alice-acid]

http://www.damnlol.com/i/deb8a331f09dfb38753ead1b5a7aab55.jpg

[nepuinthesky]

Here are a few nice optical illusions:

if you only see geometric forms here go a few steps back

here the most people see round oranges but they are edgy.

hmm i only see square ones no rounds^^

[Meadow]

@nepuinthesky: What's to be seen in your second picture? Shall there be a face between the trees?

and I can read the text at the beginning of this thread. English is not my first language, the first words have been a bit harder to decipher but when my brain kind of realized, that it's english, it went smooth.

So far, I met noone personally, who couldn't read a text like that... maybe I am just hanging around with crazy persons ;-)

[nepuinthesky]

yap a face^^