Flat Earth Clues Part 12 - Real Eyes
This is part of a series of clues that can
help you get your head around both the design
of the flat earth system we live in, and who
has been involved in the deception to hide
it from you.
This clue covers an enclosed system feature
which for me at first seemed like just a necessary
aspect of the process, that being what we
perceive with our own eyes, because for many,
that’s the validation we need.
Can seeing things with our eyes really be
trusted though?
The more I looked into it, the more it became
apparent that they cannot.
In fact, it became obvious that as a species,
we seem to have layers of cognitive weakness,
especially when it comes to optical perception,
like it was built into our very genetic code.
Layers that naturally help things like hiding
the shape of the world.
I’m going to show you some examples, and
before this clue ends, you’ll know why everyone
else around you is missing the big picture,
and just how rare you are to realize it.
For example, What is this object?
It’s your world.
This is where you live.
You know it as certain as anything else that’s
given, like gravity, temperature, and touch.
But you can’t touch or see your world, like
this, so if I take this image away, how do
you still know?
Anyone who has followed the clues so far know
that I for the most part just use some slides
and a narrative, but some of the best optical
examples use moving illusions, so for better
or worse, I’ll be including small sections
of video into this clue to help drive home
the point.
So let’s start with a dramatic entrance,
something you can relate to.
This is for all the questions regarding the
sky, and how things can be accomplished.
To this, I have to remind people using a Truman
show example, where the director, living in
the moon structure, queues the sun.
Keep in mind this is a very small enclosed
system.
If the sun, moon, and stars can be reproduced
here, imagine what you could do with a dome
1000 times larger using technology far beyond
ours.
But maybe I’m getting ahead of myself.
Like the mice in clue 4 , we should start
with something small, because the small stuff
is easy to figure out, right?
Take this spinning ballerina, for example.
If I say that she’s spinning on her left
foot before you look, then she spins on her
left foot.
If you look away and I now say she’s spinning
on her right, then when you look again she’s
now on her right, but try to change her direction
while staring directly at her, and it becomes
much more difficult.
Did I change her graphic?
Is it magic or witchcraft?
Not at all.
How the girl is animated gives your mind the
choice of how she is spinning, you just need
a starting point.
So you say, well, that’s an animation, just
a clever trick.
So I show you this still picture of a match
and it’s shadow against the wall.
Notice anything missing?
Like the shadow of the flame itself?
Your mind wants it to be there, but it isn’t.
Everything casts a shadow, right?
Your eyes want the image to include the flames
shadow, even though logic tells you the pure
light source can’t have one.
And then there’s the famous dress, which
is in real life is blue and black, but how
it’s photographed gives the human mind an
option of seeing it in gold and white.
You know what color it is, because you can
see it, but if someone else sees a completely
different color, then who’s correct?
If everyone in the room sees black, and you
see gold, are you wrong because you’re in
the minority?
And what does that say about possible illusions
that can be tailored to a small group of people,
or just you?
Human eyes are easy to manipulate.
Take this classic example.
If you pause the video and stare at the four
dots in the center for 30 seconds, then turn
away and look at something white, then you
will see a residual image of a bearded man,
but that’s not the trick.
It’s that the residual image is in color,
even though you were staring at something
black an white, showing you that your eyes
can be conditioned in a relatively short amount
of time.
And speaking of black and white, let’s see
if you can avoid a simple distraction.
Focus on white, and try to see how many passes
are made by the white colored team.
Can you tune out everything else and count
the number of white passes?
You’re confident that the total number of
passes is 13, and congratulations, you would
be correct, but this wasn’t about the number
of passes, it was about the bigger distraction.
By following the white team you were ignoring
the black team, and moreover, everything black,
so you failed to see the dancing black bear
that was right in front of you.
Don’t worry, I didn’t see it either the
first time, and, being that you now know how
it‘s done, you can’t be fooled again,
right?
Rewind and try it, still focusing on the number
of passes, and see if you can catch the bear.
It’s harder than you might think.
Many people will see this dragon and think
it’s a computer generated effect.
It’s actually very real, but the illusion
only works from certain angles.
If you walk too far one way or the other,
you can see behind the scenes.
If you cannot see behind the scenes, your
mind can’t break out of the illusion, no
matter how hard you try.
And this then leads us back to something that
shouldn‘t be a trick, but is.
It‘s called the Mercator map.
And you say that it’s not a deception, it’s
a real map.
How do you know this?
Because it was on a wall in your school classroom?
All geographers in the world know that this
map is very wrong.
The correct perspective map is this, the Gall
Peters.
It shows countries how they actually are in
comparison to each other.
This is the map that should be in schools
right now, but the authority thinks you’ll
be more comfortable with the old map.
You say that they aren’t that much different,
that at least the location is correct right?
Take a look at the size of Europe, and 
where Germany is.
We assume, like many things that what is presented
to us is the truth, because we want to believe,
and I mean that literally.
Human beings as a species are designed to
believe what they see.
It’s called suspension of disbelief.
Think you’re immune to this disbelief process?
Why do you get emotional when watching a movie?
You know it’s a movie, you know that you’re
watching just a two dimensional image on a
screen.
You’ve seen the actors before many times
in other films, and you know that the process
to make the film took hundreds of people and
millions of dollars to create.
But if the story is convincing enough, you
will forget all that, at least for a while,
and be swept up in the moment.
But enough tricks, what about real life?
Without all the slight of hand and distraction,
you should be able to determine everything
as it really is, right?
Don’t be so sure.
Ever driven a car in stop and go traffic,
zoned out for a bit, then had that horrifying
feeling that you couldn’t tell if your car
was moving, or the car next to you was moving?
That happens to all humans.
University studies on motion perception have
been done for years and they determined if
the movement was smooth enough, human beings
couldn’t tell the difference between our
motion, and the motion of other objects.
This applies to cars, trains, basically any
vehicle you may be in, maybe even one as large
as the world itself.
To be clear, you can’t really tell if your
car or train is moving.
No one can.
It’s an assumption.
So now tell me that you can feel your world
spinning at 1000 miles an hour, and rushing
around the sun at 60 times that speed.
Your world isn’t spinning, or moving forward,
only the sky is, and even that isn’t real.
The stars spin, the moon circles, as does
the sun.
All of it built with great craft and precision,
to create the illusion that you are isolated
in a vast universe, to fend for yourself,
which is not the case.
Or, in short, we were designed to believe,
to accept the illusions as reality, so that
an enclosed system could be built around us,
and we could live in it without the burden
of confinement.
And for those of you who still haven’t used
their real eyes yet, here’s one more trick.
See if you can solve it.
