A plumber I know calls them “optical
conclusions.” They are not an optical
illusion created by exploiting sensory overload, but rather a kind of half-wit misinterpretation
of what are really very normal visual inputs.
In the case of my plumber friend, he considered any
of his piping that I saw as crooked an optical conclusion.
Well, I did not think so. My torpedo level also thought his stuff was
out-of-whack.
But yesterday I did see something weird. Looking out
across a field I saw a white cat walking backward through some tall grass. “Wow,” I thought, “that is unusual. Like Michael Jackson moonwalking!” I did not
realize that I was witnessing and optical conclusion until the tail lifted its
head and the whole thing became a snow goose walking forward.
--Mitchell
Hegman
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