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This site is about a conflict of human physiology that shaped history but was undetected until the 1960's.
In the entire history of man on the planet Earth this phenomenon was discovered only once.
It caused mental breaks for office workers.
You will find this material hard to believe.
This phenomenon is explained in first semester psychology lectures where students don't believe it either.
For that reason I wrote a demonstration that will allow you to experience the phenomenon.
The Everquest Connection page has the explanation and assumes you have not taken basic psychology.
The solution for this problem was the office Cubicle.
This site argues that the this phenomenon causes College Suicides and Missing Students.
The phenomenon causes mental events around the world, Chaco Canyon.
If you use computers in unprotected workspace such as homes, dorms, student apartments, and small business offices read ...Prevention... at the bottom of most pages.
Long term exposure can cause severely altered mental states. Qi Gong Kundalini Yoga
If you are visiting the site as part of a school project send the person responsible for controlling violence at your school to this site.
Bizarre Behavior
Did you ever wonder why?
Page Index (in progress)
Claude Allen Presidential aide arrested for shoplifting (Allen not his twin recently confessed to this incident.)
Lt. Col. Arthur Holland banked his B52 so sharply at 250 feet altitude that it fell out of the sky.
When Qi Gong users perform slow motion martial arts in unison they believe that this allows them to manipulate powerful life forces that control the universe.
Mohammed Rez Taheri-azar failed to cause serious injury in a University of North Carolina SUV attack.
Barry Landreth University of California, Master's Degree instructor, ran a Ponzi scheme.
Jennifer Wilbanks was she a runaway bride, or a Dissociative Fugue victim?
Hung Hsiu-ch'üan began to believe he was Jesus' younger brother and led a rebellion that killed 40 million people.
Li Hongzhi the spiritual leader of 100 million Falun Gong believers told a Time Asia reporter that extraterrestrial aliens are cloning humans to take over the Earth.
Adolph Hitler believed a Christian relic spoke to him telling him of his destiny to rule the world. WWII killed millions while he attempted to fulfill that destiny.
Marshall H. Applewhite convinced followers that the end of Earth was at hand. He and thirty-eight others committed mass suicide March 26-27, 1997.
Navy Capt. Lisa Marie Nowak mission specialist on shuttle flights put on a disguise, drove 900 miles to Florida and confronted a romantic rival
Prevention Simple precautions reduce exposure to Subliminal Distraction.
Claude Allen
In the last few days Allen has been arrested on shoplifting charges. If he had been a teenager the story might make sense. But Allen was a presidential advisor. He had sense enough to know that there were security cameras that high end stores use to prevent shoplifting. True he did it differently than most grab and run thieves. But what he did was easily detectable by security in most department stores.
People who know him including the President are dumb struck at what has happened. They all say his is honest and this is far out of character for him.
He left a trail on his credit card of $5000 in refunds. How smart is that? The first stories say he used two stores in the scam. It is not clear if only two locations or two department store chains and several locations are involved.
That nonsense element makes me think something else was at work. Allen failed to use competent judgment. Given his position what he did can be said to have been bizarre behavior.
Allen may have begun to have mental problems. Someone who has been the number two person at Health and Human Services has better judgment than is reflected by what happened.
The latest theory involves an identical twin. Commentators are having fun with that possibility.
If this is your first visit to this site it may be difficult to explain. Look at what happened at Fairchild AFB in 1994. Lt. Col. Holland banked his B52 at such a sharp angle that it fell out of the sky. He had more hours in a B52 than any other pilot in the Air Force. In the months leading up to that crash other crewmembers had objected to his erratic behavior and refused to fly with him. On one occasion he cleared a ridge line by about three feet. There were film crews present but the video ends abruptly. Everybody dropped their cameras and ran. They expected him to impact the ridge line. Holland had lost his judgment about what the plane could do. His co-pilot grabbed the yoke and pulled up at the last minute.
The links to that video clip are on the Czar 52 VPN site page.
Qi Gong masters believe that if they stand in groups and perform slow motion martial arts movements, katas, they gain the ability to control powerful universal life forces that are the basis of the universe. Think about that for a minute. If you maintain eyes-open meditation and wave your arms in the air in unison with a small group of people...Do you see what I mean? But guess what? It seems to work. At least users believe it does. They eventually experience an altered mental state called "opening the third eye." Some begin to believe they have superhuman or supernatural powers. The National Geographic Channel has a program "Is it Real." On the episode about superhuman powers you can see a Karate class being instructed how to form a Qi (chee) energy ball in the air between their cupped hands. They are told that that energy ball can be tossed back and forth between members of the class. Do you think the exercise is a educational tool? No the Karate master actually believes this is possible. He has the same thought and judgment problem that appears to have effected Holland and Allen. Because the judgment problem does not effect their daily life it is not considered psychotic. Some articles refer to these beliefs as psychotic-like.
Qi Gong psychotic reaction is explained on this VPN site page.
How does this connect to Allen? You don't have to practice Qi Gong or fly a B52 to experience the same exposure that causes these beliefs and judgment errors. Given that there is no information that he experienced a sudden mental break the exposure would be something he did for an hour or so a few times a week.
The problem that causes these subtle changes in mental states was discovered in the 1960's when knowledge workers using newly designed movable close-spaced office workstations began having mental breaks. The cubicle solved the problem of mental breaks in business offices. Those designers, engineers, and psychologists made a basic mistake. They thought they had created the phenomenon for the first time. They failed to understand that the problem is one of human physiology not business offices. There was no reason they should have suspected otherwise. They did not look into historical events searching for other incidents when the same conditions were present. (That's what I did once I realized the significance of the problem.)
The circumstances that allowed exposure to Subliminal Distraction are so simple that they can be created almost anywhere. Although it is usually a business office that was not correctly designed by a someone trained in Systems Furniture, the same exposure can happen in home computer workstations. Any place where you sit and concentrate while there is repeating detectable movement in peripheral vision can cause exposure. Using a computer in unprotected workspace stands out to day but there were no computers in the 1960's when the problem was discovered.
The frequency and intensity of exposure determines what happens. When too many Qi Gong sessions are done too close together a psychotic mental break happens. If exposure stops a complete recovery is usual. The altered mental states and strange beliefs happen when exposure is low and persistent. It functions much like operant conditioning. In fact you could call it, Subliminal Accidental Operant Conditioning. (link to new VPN page)
So how does this translate to what Allen did. If he had exposure it would have been low level and repeated for a long time.
Now use the fact that the circumstances are so very simple to think back in history to other events where something happened that cannot be explained today.
There is no page here for this next event because I am missing an element to argue that Subliminal Distraction caused the mental break that started a war. I have not established that normal housing in Northern China in the 1840's would have likely been a single-room dwelling.
If you have information that housing for poor farmers in Northern China in the 1840/50's would have been small single-room housing or that other facts point to Subliminal Distraction email Researcher.
To be continued....
Mohammed Rez Taheri-azar
The 22 year-old student drove a SUV into a crowd at the University of North Carolina. There is reporting that he planned the attack for some time choosing a SUV to do more damage.
He is from a wealthy family in Iran and rented the Jeep from Enterprise. Although a December 2005 UNC-Chapel Hill graduate, psychology and philosophy, he has a fast food job at Jimmy John's Subs. There are blog posts saying that a fraternity de-pledged him because he used drugs, drank heavily, was antisocial and a loner.
He phoned 911 to claim credit for the act and said he did it to, "punish the government of the United States for their actions around the world," He made a statement to police that, "people all over the world are being killed in war and now it is the people in the United States turn to be killed." At the arraignment he said God would defend him as he represented himself as his own attorney, and told the judge that he was, "thankful for the opportunity to spread the will of Allah." He claimed to have worked on the attack for two months choosing the four-wheel drive vehicle because it could climb over and would keep going. He carried two cans of pepper spray and a knife in the event he was threatened.
The Pit is a low brick area on the quad with no vehicle access except a service road that is difficult to navigate. A picture on 'Hugh Hewitt,' shows a quarter city block depression in an enclosed quad between a student union, dining hall and two libraries. There are trees in the depression. There are wide pedestrian walkways around and leading to the Pit.
It is not clear how he drove into the quad. One statement says that students were spreading apart when he drove slowly up to the Pit. That would seem to have been an odd decision if he intended to harm as many people as possible. He was unhappy that there were not more people in the Pit. Why would he drive slowly if he intended to harm as many as possible? If he had increased speed in a drive up the walkway, even if most students scattered, he would have run over those who could not get out of the way. What he did failed to cause serious injuries. He hit nine people but only injured six. They were treated and released.
He waited for police a short distance from campus. He cooperated and sent police to his apartment for additional evidence. His roommates assisted the police and are not believed to be involved.
This does not make sense. I suspect he will eventually will have a psychiatric evaluation paid for by his family.
This blog has a picture link of the Pit http://hughhewitt.com/archives/2006/03/05-week/index.php#a001555
North Carolina does not have laws about terrorism so the defendant will be charged with crimes which address the events of the attacks, hit and run, attempted murder with a motor vehicle.
Barry Landreth
Landreth taught courses at the University of California about real estate financing While on leave he sold shares in a venture to buy real estate in Chicago and Las Vegas, then resell it for profit, Webster Realty Investors. Instead he put the money in his own account.
If anyone knew what to do and what not to do to avoid prosecution he did. The course he taught courses in was called "Master of Real Estate Development." Yet he openly put the money in his personal account then used it to buy cars, horses, and operate a Ponzi scheme. He promised returns of 190 percent in forty-five days It's not a case of simple theft. He has a Master's degree from USC.
It's the totality of the situation, who he was, what he knew, and how stupid the actual theft scheme was, that points to some failure of reasoning.
Jennifer Wilbanks
She believed that her large up coming wedding was so stressful that it triggered fear, doubt, and thoughts of suicide. Her story ran for days. But no one asked questions or investigated a DSM diagnosis Dissociative Fugue. She was sent to a psychiatric evaluation and therapist who told her she was "running away from self."
The facts that she only took refund money from rebates to prevent her mother learning what she panned, no change of clothes, and did not eat during the episode point to a psychiatric event.
Dissociative Fugue is usually diagnosed when someone is found who disappeared mysteriously. They leave their normal life and have amnesia. If they recover they usually do not remember events during the fugue.
Taiping Rebellion

In the 1840's a teacher in Northern China, Hung Hsiu-ch'üan, had a mental break while studying for the imperial exams. Through a series of incidents over several years he began to believe he was Jesus' younger brother. (One source says Jesus' younger son.) He began to preach and eventually gathered a large following. Due to drought and famine he successfully formed an army from the poor and starving. Over a period of years they fought a revolutionary war. Estimates are that forty million Chinese died in battles. His army was eventually defeated by the English and French. Accounts vary but one hundred thousand died in the final battle. He intended to form a classless society based on Christian Principals, The Kingdom of Heavenly Peace. Scholarly articles have different dates and statistics.
The facts of his mental break are not disputed and there are mentions that he was in a coma for a week. His family tended him during the acute phase of the mental break. I just have not had time to do the reading and research to complete the loop and find all three elements of exposure to Subliminal Distraction.
City University NY http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/texts/taiping.html
Richard Hooker WSU http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/CHING/TAIPING.HTM
Paul Halsall Fordham University http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/taiping.html
Li Hongzhi
Li Hongzhi has been performing Qi Gong since he was six years old. He exhibits the same bizarre beliefs that other long term Qi Gong users do.
The National Geographic Channel has a program called "Is It Real?." On the program episode titled " Superhuman Powers" you can see one example of a Karate instructor telling students they can form a Chee energy ball between their cupped palms and toss it around among group members. He then demonstrates using Chee energy to strike volunteer demonstrators without touching them. When challenged he has a ready answer that this energy force can be defeated with thought and physical preparation.
Li Hongzhi performs normally in other aspects of his life. He gives interviews, travels, and writes books. One is posted on the Internet and is free. (See link below.) In China his followers have been arrested for participating in the Falun Gong movement. They too exhibit bizarre behavior. These beliefs quality them in China as a cult. Some American TV programs have attempted to use this in a plot line, "Law and Order." But no one has correctly stated the cause of these bizarre beliefs.
There are several articles on-line that give additional examples of cases where Qi Gong users believe they have superhuman or supernatural powers. Users believe the psychiatric outcomes are caused by incorrectly performing the slow motion martial arts movements. Think about that for a moment. They believe that when they perform these movements in groups while using eyes-open concentration, meditation they have the power to control forces that created the Universe. They have mistaken the onset of a dissociative mental break for contact with a higher plane of existence, enlightenment.
Li Hongzhi's book. http://www.falundafa.org/book/eng/flg.htm
CSICOP article and case examples. http://www.csicop.org/sb/9503/china.html
Human Rights Watch Falun Gong article and cases. http://www.hrw.org/reports/2002/china02/china0802-17.htm
Time Asia quote
"Li believes the ancient Chinese art of qigong (Falun Gong is one variation) can endow practitioners with superhuman powers. He also says the world is in chaos today because the human race has been invaded by aliens from other planets who hope to challenge mankind through scientific means, especially through human cloning."
http://www.time.com/time/asia/asia/magazine/1999/990510/interview1.html

Adolph Hitler
Sites across the Internet tell how Adolph Hitler, as a young art student, became obsessed with the Spear of Destiny. He had an experience on one of his many visits to the museum to view it. He believed it spoke to him and revealed how he would rule the world. Those sites have not understood what his epiphany actually meant.
Also mentioned in the stories about Satan worship related to Hitler is the fact that at fifteen he had a witnessed episode of apparent possession. If you are a frequent reader of this site you already know that I categorize possession as a combination of hearing voices and a dissociative mental break. The two things put together indicate he had a longstanding problem.
It explains a lot. His single minded purpose and decisions he made which caused the German Army devastating military outcomes stalked his attempts to conquer Europe and Russia.
Recent investigations reveal that the relic he captured dates to the sixth century and could not have been the original spear of Longinus which pierced the side of Jesus while he was on the cross. There are said to be several such spears in existence which claim to be Longinus' spear.
None of this proposes that he was insane. Exposure to Subliminal Distraction produces troubling psychiatric symptoms while the exposure is ongoing. But if the exposure stops the symptoms also stop. The memory of delusional episodes would remain with the person all their life. As they view the episode it was a supernatural experience. They are positive it happened as normal reality. They will not be dissuaded.
As an example there are thousands who are positive they have been abducted by aliens. No argument about the impossibility of the event actually happening will suffice to change their minds.
Look at the bizarre beliefs of some cults. Step back to the beginning of a cult movement. The leader was so persuaded of the divine mission that they actually succeed in gathering a following moving their belief system forward.
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Heaven's Gate Mass Suicide - Marshall H. Applewhite
"He was usually president of everything,...He was always a born leader and very charismatic. He could get people to believe anything," said his sister Louise Winant.
Applewhite was believed to have been schizophrenic. The question to be answered is how did he convince thirty-eight other people to commit suicide with him. Subliminal Distraction is the answer.
There is a conflict in the story of how Applewhite's beginning of cult activity happened. He met Bonnie Lu Trousdale Nettles in a Houston hospital. His version is that he was visiting a friend. Another story is that he had a heart problem, was admitted to the hospital, and had a near death experience. A third story is that he met Nettles in a psychiatric hospital where he attempted to find a cure for his homosexual urges. Prior to that experience he taught at the University of St. Thomas, sang roles with the Houston Grand Opera, and was married with two children. He had been dismissed from the university after a scandal involving a male student.
He left his previous life for Nettles. They had an admitted platonic relationship. They held meetings and gathered members from 1972 until their arrest in 1974. They were accused of stealing credit cards and a car from the husband of a member of their group. By 1975 they were claiming to be space aliens. That new doctrine was that after 1260 days their enemies would succeed in killing them. They would ascend to heaven in a cloud he believed to be a space ship.
Applewhite claimed to have a revelation while living in a campground in Gold Beach, Oregon. He said he and Nettles were prophets of the eleventh chapter of The Book of Revelations.
In 1975 he gathered 30 (also stated as 20) people after a meeting and lecture on UFO's. Their disappearance brought national attention and the term "brainwashing" was created to explain the power of cults to gain control of members.
A video from KCAL still available on CNN shows dorm room living accommodations with as many as five people in each room. There is a brief shot of an unprotected computer in one room. San Diego County Sheriff's deputies are seen in the video moving from room to room.
The group looked for a sign that the end was near. When an amateur astronomer reported, as a hoax, that there was a companion following the Hale-Bopp comet they believed that it was the sign. They actually bought a high power telescope to see for themselves. When the hoax was revealed they were not dissuaded from their plans.
http://www.cnn.com/US/9703/28/mass.suicide/house.33.mov
Applewhite video and audio. http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1998/hgate.review/soundpage/index.html
Copy of the group website still kept by college group studying cults.. http://www.wave.net/upg/gate/
March 27, 1997 Applewhite and thirty-eight of his followers committed suicide in shifts. The purpose of this act was to discard their earthly containers and prepare for the arrival of an alien space ship traveling to earth hidden by the Hale-Bopp comet.
Regardless, the belief that you are a space alien is psychotic. The belief that you are about to be raised to a higher level of existence by aliens arriving with a comet is also psychotic.
The group had used a dormitory style living arrangement in the rented mansion. They had a computer business building websites. It is unlikely they knew about Cubicle Level Protection given the level of skill involved in their business. In 1997 computer CPU's still had bright blinking lights that could be swept through peripheral vision.
This is not evident in the beginning of the cult. But that is because no one knew about the problem thus no one recorded critical information.
Navy Capt. Lisa Marie Nowak
Captain Nowak drove 900 miles from Houston to Orlando to intercept Colleen Shipman's meeting with Navy Commander Bill Oefelein. Nowak succeeded in only spraying pepper spray through a small opening in Shipman's car window. Nowak used her astronaut training when she included disposable diapers to reduce stops along the way. Nowak, a graduate of the Naval Academy with a Master's Degree in Aeronautical Engineering, is married with three children.
She only admitted an attempt to scare Shipman. But the contents of her car, a new steel mallet, a knife, and plastic garbage bags, indicate she may have more serious ambitions. She was seen throwing away a wig and CO2 powered pellet gun.
Exposure to Subliminal Distraction in training and missions would have increased her paranoia about the relationship with Oefelein.
What might happen it this episode or one similar to it had played out on a mission?
This is not the first event that happened to an astronaut or cosmonaut. There was a psychotic mental break on Soyuz-21. Unaware of Subliminal Distraction the Russian space agency gave twelve possible causes including toxic gases. Mental breaks have happened on scientific expeditions for over a hundred years. Unsuitable people or mass hysteria are usually blamed. There is a developing field of study called the 'psychology of isolation.' Putting two or more people in too-small single-room arrangements supplies the "special conditions" for exposure from SD. Isolation has little to do with it.
February 6,2007 Nowak has been charged with attempted kidnapping, attempted vehicle burglary with battery and destruction of evidence and battery charges.1:28 p.m. ET, 2/6/07 Redd Huber / AP appeared on MSN
MSN story and photos, short availability 02/06/07. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17009287/displaymode/1176/rstry/16997958/
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/02/05/space.love/index.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,250415,00.html
Is There a connection for all these events?
Although each of these events seems to have a unique etiology there is a pattern of exposure to Subliminal Distraction in each. In some cases it is directly observed, such as the computer business and communal living of The Heaven's Gate cult. Others have only the reference to exposure because of the activities the person had at the time of the event.
There are other accounts of different events in this site that show a similar pattern.
When Mary Shotwell Little disappeared from Lenox Square, Atlanta, her car was found smeared with blood. Police immediately suspected the car was a staged scene because the amount of blood was so small. One comment was that it was not enough for a nose bleed. A pair of hose was found with a cut in them. But rather than being thrown on the floor or flung into the back seat they were neatly folded and stuck beside the seat. The day her car was found she stopped at a gas station in Charlotte with two rough looking men. She was covered in blood. Fourteen hours later the same thing happed in Raleigh, which is only a three hour drive from Charlotte. When I contacted a cold case officer he remembered that the phenomenon on this site had caused a problem for the Atlanta Police Department. They had to switch to cubicles. Investigators of the period would not have learned of the 1960's design discovery. It was thought to only be a coincidence that Little and Shields had both used the same desk at C&S Bank in downtown Atlanta.
The mistakes Little made in setting up the abduction scene happened because she was in an altered mental state probably psychotic. Her judgment had been effected.
Mary Shotwell Little Solution to the Disappearance is a VPN site page.
Bizarre behavior does not just happen. There is a potential cause in exposure to the phenomenon on this site. Outside the United States it is called Subliminal Distraction. Here that term has a restricted meaning. Subliminal Distraction happens when neural impulses from sensor cells in your eyes and ears continue to be sent to your brain even though you are dissociating to concentrate on something such as reading or using a computer.
When those sensor cells are located on the retina so that they supply far peripheral vision to the brain, they will detect movement to cause a vision reflex, break your concentration, and warn you. If you can learn to ignore the detected movement those efforts are subliminal because you can't turn the brain system off when you successfully ignore the distracting movement. The efforts of your brain to force a startle and vision reflex are also a Subliminal Distraction. (bookmark Definitions bottom of this page)
When this happens your subconscious mind is bombarded with the 'subliminal apprehension of threat.' Over days and weeks this begins to shape thought through paranoia or fear. Each person's reaction and thought process is different. A sudden intense rate of exposure will cause a sudden but temporary episode. A dissociative mental break. The experience from Qi Gong and Kundalini Yoga is that low levels of exposure over long periods will create fixed altered mental states.
Qi Gong Psychotic Deviation a VPN site page.
Kundalini Yoga psychotic episode a VPN site page.
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Definitions
Subliminal Distraction usually refers to the fact that when you concentrate to work you can’t stop sensor cells of your eyes and ears sending stimulus to your brain. Audio distraction is often mentioned but not visual.
Subliminal Sight is a small slice of your vision field just past the periphery of conscious vision that functions to detect movement only. Stationary objects in this area of sight are invisible. Perform the psychology demonstration to prove that you have subliminal sight.
Peripheral Vision Reflexes
Vision reflexes are part of a primitive system developed in hunter gathers and pre-humans to warn of approach from behind while the person is concentrating on something, lost in thought, or daydreaming. This evaluation happens at a level in the brain that is said to be below thought, reason, or consciousness. There is no memory associated with this instantaneous evaluation so that each new acquisition of movement will create another attempt to cause a reflex. Only movement and position are involved. You identify the source of threat movement when you turn and look.
This means you can have exposure from more than one source every day. Your brain can’t tell that there is more than one source. When a threshold of exposure is reached in a compact time frame, the mental break happens.
Conflict of Physiology
The conflict of physiology is that while you can learn to ignore the reflexes that break your concentration, you can’t "stop seeing" anything in your vision field and you can’t tell your brain to stop detecting movement then attempting to force a reflex. Those efforts to break your concentration are also a Subliminal Distraction. That is the name of the phenomenon outside the United States. I could not find a name used here. That may be one reason few people are aware of the problem.
Our physiology is not adapted to sitting in unprotected space with movement in peripheral vision. We developed as hunter gathers and there was no activity to shape our evolution to the modern business situation
Links
I recommend this site. But you will have to browse several pages.
"Early in evolution, human ancestors had only peripheral vision. The role of this early vision system (still preserved in our eyes) was to detect motion and set off protective reflexes."
http://www.wayfinding.net/vsionsys.htm
Peripheral vision Lego tester
Adobe file with tester construction and data results sample
http://www.edex.com.au/lego/support/activities/032_peripheral_vision.pdf
Nightwalking
"In The Book of Five Rings, Miyamoto Musashi, the legendary swordsman of 16th century Japan, implies that he fought his greatest duels with his eyes crossed, and goes into considerable detail about developing and using this strange abitlity."
The method suggested to engage peripheral vision is to suspend an object from the bill of a baseball cap and practice staring at it rather than looking straight ahead as we all normally do.
The site has a page on the physiology of the eye and sight. It describes the normal field of vision.
http://www.navaching.com/hawkeen/nwalk.html#Anchor-The-59125
Institute for Innovative Blind Navigation
Don't let the site name put you off. This site has several pages which explain sight and how the brain deals with two vision systems.
http://www.wayfinding.net/index.htm
This page has the vision material. http://www.wayfinding.net/vsionsys.htm#four
Speed Reading (peripheral vision)
http://www.ababasoft.com/wider_eye_span/
Vision, is a set of brain level subsystems
This page explains the M & P pathways and vision processing.
http://www.wayfinding.net/visanal.htm
The Red Myth
Color in Vision
http://stlplaces.com/night_vision.html
University of Missouri
The first paragraph on this page refers to psychological factors effecting pupil dilation.
"Interestingly, the pupil/iris combination also changes in response to psychological factors. One sign of activation of the sympathetic nervous system, which is a system important in arousal, fight, and flight, is dilated pupils. For example, sexual interest results in pupil dilation. (This piece of information may come in handy some time.)"
http://web.umr.edu/~psyworld/eye.htm
University of Utah
John Moran Eye Center -- Anatomy
http://webvision.med.utah.edu/
Kimball's Biology Pages
A simple explanation of the eye and sight.
http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/V/Vision.html
Understanding Human Vision
This site deals with color.
http://www.pitir.com/pentile/Human_Vision.html
Vision and the Brain
Block diagrams of vision paths through the brain explain the M and P channels.
http://www.thebrain.mcgill.ca/flash/i/i_02/i_02_cr/i_02_cr_vis/i_02_cr_vis.html#2
Study Notes Vision
http://www.utmed.com/studynotes/neuro/VisualProcessing.pdf
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Prevention:
This section is now repeated at the bottom of most pages.
The rare occurrence of the
injury establishes that is difficult to create enough exposure to cause an
injury. But when it does happen the consequences are serious, possibly fatal.
Our personal experience
was intermittent human traffic during eight-hour workdays for thirty calendar
days.
If you have a tower CPU mount
it under your desk. That's the way they position it in a cubicle. The hard drive
busy light is about the height of your low peripheral vision if you put the
tower on the desk. Desktop reading of text or writing notes beside the keyboard
on the side of the monitor away from the tower makes the blinking hard drive
busy light appear to approach from behind when you turn to view the screen
again.
If you have a computer work
station/desk in which you turn ninety degrees to write or do other non computer
work, turn off the monitor when you turn aside. Remove screen savers in this
instance. The movement, animation for example, in your screensaver,
two-dimensional movement, might well be detected by your peripheral vision at
close range. Alternately cover the monitor screen.
All home, apartment, or
dorm computer workstations are in unprotected workspace.
To change that put the computer in a quiet room with no possible movement. If
that is not possible in a dorm or apartment position the computer so that your
peripheral vision can see only stationary walls as you use the computer in a
busy room. In Cubicles and 'Systems Furniture' these protective features are
achieved with peripheral vision blocking panels and corner seating positions. It
is called 'Cubicle Level Protection.'
If you use computer or CD-ROM
games for many hours day after day, the game playing position should follow the
same rules as the computer workstation. Battery operated games will not run long
enough on a single rechargeable battery to cause a risk for SPVP.
Although a laptop does not
have a visible blinking light in peripheral vision the same rules apply to your
work position. There should not be human traffic moving to you from
behind. There should be nothing behind you, which could enter your subliminal
peripheral vision field as you turn your head while working at the laptop and be
mistaken for threat movement.
Only movement coming from
behind you into your Subliminal Peripheral Vision can cause a peripheral vision
reflex. If the movement source approaches you from ahead then enters your
Subliminal Peripheral Vision from conscious sight there can be no peripheral
vision reflex.
Repeated for Emphasis:
A single session or rare
sessions will not cause this problem.
It is the same day after day
long hours of play or computer use with detectable movement in ‘Subliminal
Peripheral Vision,’ which would form the basis of a risk for SPVP injury.
The brain’s detection system only evaluates movement. There is little recognition of the nature of the object in peripheral vision. If you have several hours exposure from human traffic at the library, while reading at an open table or seated in a reading room chair, followed by long hours watching TV with a critically misplaced ceiling fan sweeping detectable shadows around the room, the combination of those two behaviors might cause the problem. The suggestion is that either activity alone would not consume enough exposure time even if the critical movement is present.
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