Interested, sound and image, their relationship
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 5:50 pm
The brain is one entity, it is true that separate parts perform different functions, and performing multiple tasks, with training, is possible. But what is impossible is to read two books at once, although we have two eyes, the brain uses them together. We do not see two images, one for each eye, we see one, with added dimensionality or depth.
This too can be said when we both watch a film and hear it's soundtrack. We are not concious of both existing sepeately, allthough we know both are there, we see them as one, the sound adds dimensionality to the visuals on the screen. The sounds we hear therefore affect our perception of the visuals. Try playing a scene in a film, or just TV with the sound off, accompany it with varied music, perhaps song you like that have connotations for you anyway, you will be suprised at how your mind wanders and its new insight into the scene can be suprising.
This can be further pursued by staring at a photograph, particularly of a person. Then think about a particular emotion and try to really feel it, sile yourself and you can for a split seccond actually see the photo smile back at you. This is just the way the brain works. We do eventhing simultanously, therefore various factors we take in, like seeing hearing etc, can make us interprpet other things differantly. Control your own mind.
This too can be said when we both watch a film and hear it's soundtrack. We are not concious of both existing sepeately, allthough we know both are there, we see them as one, the sound adds dimensionality to the visuals on the screen. The sounds we hear therefore affect our perception of the visuals. Try playing a scene in a film, or just TV with the sound off, accompany it with varied music, perhaps song you like that have connotations for you anyway, you will be suprised at how your mind wanders and its new insight into the scene can be suprising.
This can be further pursued by staring at a photograph, particularly of a person. Then think about a particular emotion and try to really feel it, sile yourself and you can for a split seccond actually see the photo smile back at you. This is just the way the brain works. We do eventhing simultanously, therefore various factors we take in, like seeing hearing etc, can make us interprpet other things differantly. Control your own mind.