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Well, I meant to update the site after the exams.
In fact, I had planned this to be the third post, but the 2nd post, though half complete, is rather a long post and so will require quite some time.
But I guess, 25% completion of the exams warrants half an hour of writing .

Moving on,
‘Googling‘  , we find that perception is the process of attaining awareness or understanding of sensory information.
‘Awarness’ and ‘Understanding’ are the keywords that should be highlighted here.

Argh !! I’m kinda sleepy ….. Can’t arrange the sentences properly. Think I’ll just get to the example.

Look at this video.
If you are on a slow network or limited bandwidth, fireup VLC and view any music video.
But the IMPORTANT thing is that you view a video.
If you are in a hurry, watch just 30 secs of the video, but do watch it before reading the part written after the video.
The reason for this is that, your ‘perception’ will change when you read ahead before watching the video.
So, just watch 30-40 secs of the video.

Now that you have finished watching it, change your perception.
View the video again from the ‘perspective’ of :-

• The Fashion incharge

:- Notice what colour, pattern, material their dress is made of. Notice how Hugh Grants dress changes in between different scenes.

• The Choreographer

:- Notice how they move their body, how they dance and what dance steps are performed.

• The musician

:- Notice the different instruments in the background, how they meld into each other, how they reach the climax.

• The Lyricist

:- Notice the lyrics, how the singers modulate their voice, meanings of the lyrics.

• The Scenes

:- Notice the background of the different scenes, the placements of the lights.

Now, after changing your perception multiple times, view the video cycling through all the perceptions.
Does’nt this cycling of perception open up new dimensions to a once simple video ?
<Talking to myself>Hey !! that’s a good title ! ‘Cycling Perceptions’.  </ttm>

Here is another example.
Just a note that this next example makes some people around you , lets say, ‘less beautiful’ , while in others, it highlights their already obvious beauty and in some , it brings forward their hidden beauty. So proceed at your own risk .

Now, get a photograph of someone whom you know well. Try to make it a friend.
Now, notice the following things about the face.

• The eye structure.
• The lips, their structure, color.
• The nose

Notice how elongated/short, wide/narrow it is.

• The hair

Notice the color,pattern of the hair. Notice how it flows around the head.

• etc etc…you get the idea

Some people will be amazed with what they discover. This will be some sort of revelation for them, while others will not be as excited, as they already are aware of the facial structure of humans.

Peoples faces are mainly used to distinguish them from other people.
While we are growing up, the brain establishes the fact that for distinguishing people, we do not need to know their minute facial features(Think about it, you can make out your friend from a long distance. ). The result of this is that it starts to ignore those details.

This explanation also serves as an explanation for the ‘video phenomenon’ mentioned above.

Conclusion :

Perception awareness can cause wonders and can ‘create’ new dimensions to an object.
But ‘cycling perception’ should not be done in excess.
The brain, while growing up starts to filter out the unwanted signals.
This prevents unnecessary information overload.
The trick is to find out objects/tasks where cycling perception causes minimum overload and at the same time is a wonderful experience.

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