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I think that the ambigous figures that we saw in class today, were very interesting. While I have seen many of these ambigous figures before in Psychology class, where it was analyzed that what is seen is based on whether the brain chooses the black or the white to be the background of the image. It also raises a very interesting quiestion about reality, and whether one can trust everything that they see.

This leads me to wonder about hypnosis and how that plays a role in the tricks of the eye, or the tricks of perception. When someone is hypnotized they are in a semi-trance and are very calm, but they tend to see and react to inputs which are not there but which they believe are there. So when we say that our brain is filling in the blindspots with what it thinks should be there, is it really just that we ourselves (possibly our I-functions) are convincing ourselves to see something and hence out of this conviction we see something or form a reality. Could this be similar to hypnosis which essentially works to convince a person of something, which results in their perception of that thing.