Spiritual lesson from an OPTICAL ILLUSION

hi this is chase table from saw words and we're gonna be doing something a little bit different on today's video we're gonna experiment with some optical illusions but first what I want to ask you to do is if you're looking at this on a phone I want you to reorient the phone so that the video player takes up the entire screen or if you're on a laptop or a desktop just maximize the video player again so it takes up the entire screen when you have other images in the periphery it sort of breaks the effect all right so what you're looking at here is a Traxler effect or rather an image which induces a Traxler effect Traxler was a Swiss scientist and philosopher in the 1800s and he theorized that when you had stimuli that were steady and unchanging your brain just sort of filters them out as insignificant just sort of like cancels it and it goes away so take a look here you see these different pastel hues the sort of fuzzy colors you see orange yellow and purple and blue and then at the center of the image there's this black pin dot so focus on the black pin dot if you will and don't try to do anything in particular just relax your eyes and focus on the black pin dot just try to look at that and nothing else and what you'll probably experience is that the colors around in the background fade away as if they're not there and eventually it'll be as if the black pin dot is on a plain solid gray background and sometimes the colors might come back into view but then if you just relax again look at the black pin dot your brain eventually cancels them out again and there and they're gone okay and that's the Troxler effect okay let's try another one here and the difference now is that the colors are more vivid and their shapes are more pronounced so it's going to be a little bit harder for our brains to cancel them out but let's let's see if it works again just stare at the black pin dot in the center and relax and you start to see the colors just fade away as if they're not there yeah again that's that Troxler effect that's your brain canceling out what it considers to be useless information okay now we're gonna do one more image which is again based on the same Traxler effect and here the pin dot is a red pin dot and then around it there's this blue halo and again just stare at the red pin dot and you're gonna see how the blue halo fades away and disappears yeah you got it okay and finally we're gonna do the lilac chaser this is animated you're not imagining things that's actually happening and again we're gonna stare at the center at the crosshairs in the center and one thing you're gonna notice probably right away is that the blank space left behind by the lilac dot gives its opposite color contrast in color it sort of looks like there's a green dot but that's just in your mind but what also happens is another Traxler effect and some people experience all of the lilac that's disappearing some experience just a portion of them but see if that will happen a few and as you're doing that I want you to consider the following have you noticed the fact that there's been a auditory Troxler effect going on the entire duration of this video here let's stop that noise in the background aah silence although probably really not because there's wherever you're sitting room noise ambient noise and you've been canceling that out as well so you see how much we're constantly filtering and ignoring as irrelevant information let's turn that noise back on oh now all of a sudden you hear it and let's cut it off on off but when it was on the entire time from the beginning you thought nothing of it and as you're staring at the lilac tracer I want you to consider there's an expression on the holy tongue ty nuke Tammy be annoyed ty nuk constant pleasure is no pleasure at all and Pacific teachings often explain that the primary example of this is life itself the greatest pleasure is to be alive so how can we all walk around constantly in a state of bliss well that's a good question and the answer is because we are always alive we don't feel the pleasure of the life force filling us pulsing through us at every moment but if God forbid let's say for instance somebody were sick and his life force left him or was depleting and was waning then all of a sudden he was revived and he came alive again then that would feel profoundly pleasurable deeply pleasurable but because it's constant we sort of cancel it out so you can go and extrapolate how much our brains are just canceling out as irrelevant because of it being constant you know just the fact that the Creator is creating the world something from nothing every single second is the greatest miracle that ever occurred and yet because it's constant it's as if nothing's happening so sometimes what we need to do is break away from the monotony get a new perspective and all of a sudden realize everything that we've been overlooking anyway I hope you've had fun with these optical illusions and some of the ideas that they get us thinking about and that's it for now we'll see you again on another episode of Soul words you [Music]