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Point taken OldTime, lack of experience and understanding on my behalf.
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OldTimeRadio said:I need a refresher lesson on the physiology of the human eye.
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hb ... dcone.htmlThe retina contains two types of photoreceptors, rods and cones. The rods are more numerous, some 120 million, and are more sensitive than the cones. However, they are not sensitive to color.
OldTimeRadio said:An Australian girl was raised with a charming framed print on her bedroom wall - the picture was of a raft full of fuzzy-bunny type animals. It was being towed down a placid river or brook by a friendly turtle.... [snip]...
The cuddly animals were entirely gone. All that remained was the turtle. He/she was sailing down the river entirely alone.
When the girl questioned her family, they insisted that the print had always been of "just a turtle on a raft."
Leaferne said:There's a Stephen King short story about a man who buys a picture of a motorbike rider which seems to "move" through the picture; as it's an SK story you can probably guess the outcome.
OldTimeRadio said:Let me make a prediction:
Within the next five to 10 years you'll open a letter from your local hardware store and there will be MOVEMENT in the letterhead - little stick figures mowing the lawn, tending the garden, painting the house and so on.
When Admiral Vansittart lived at Bisham, he scoffed at the idea of ghosts, until late one night, when playing chess in the room containing Lady Hoby's portrait, he finished the game and stood looking quietly out of the window. On turning to look at the painting, he saw that the frame on the wall was empty and that the ghost of Lady Hoby was in the room with him. He fled.
graylien said:One of my ghost books has the following entry about Lady Hoby, said to haunt Bisham Abbey.
When Admiral Vansittart lived at Bisham, he scoffed at the idea of ghosts, until late one night, when playing chess in the room containing Lady Hoby's portrait, he finished the game and stood looking quietly out of the window. On turning to look at the painting, he saw that the frame on the wall was empty and that the ghost of Lady Hoby was in the room with him. He fled.
graylien said:One of my ghost books has the following entry about Lady Hoby, said to haunt Bisham Abbey.
When Admiral Vansittart lived at Bisham, he scoffed at the idea of ghosts, until late one night, when playing chess in the room containing Lady Hoby's portrait, he finished the game and stood looking quietly out of the window. On turning to look at the painting, he saw that the frame on the wall was empty and that the ghost of Lady Hoby was in the room with him. He fled.
Like a sort of malevolent 'Where's Wally' :shock:michelleeb1970 said:This all remnds me of one of the Sapphire and Steel stories, about a man who appears in every picture. You can't always see him, maybe he's behind a wall or has his back turned, but he's always there. In the story he comes out of the pictures, and places other people in them. The pictures change, and people disappear from them and so-on. It's incredibly creepy and scary, and makes you look at photos in a whole different way.