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[paigetheoracle]

One last thing I'd like to say on the subject is that according to 'Animals in Translation' author Temple Grandin, we shouldn't take for granted that we are seeing is there in reality, not because it is an hallucination but because of the following:-

'A normal person's nervous system gets rid of a lot of detail and then fills the blanks with whatever he 'expects' to see'.

'It's ironic that we always say autistic children are in their own little world because if Dr (Allan) Snyder is right it's normal people who are living in their heads. Autistic people are experiencing the actual world much more directly and accurately than normal people, with all their inattentional blindness and change blindness'

Lastly, witnesses of crime suffer from traumatic inaccuracies, which is not their fault and the reason, conscious or otherwise, that criminals engage in such disruptive behaviour (threats and physical attacks upon witnesses as well as the crimes themselves being so dramatic). The explosive quality of the act of violence or robbery, destroys concentration, making memorization more difficult. To see and remember, we need peace (silence and stillness) to be sure what we're sensing as with a photograph (eidetic memory). Movement causes blurring of reality and therefore uncertainty as to what is being perceived (speed creates 'invisibility' or 'semi-invisibility' because it is hard to track, what is moving). Likewise noise distracts our attention from what we were paying attention to, towards the source of the sound. UFO's rarely cause this second problem but with their turn of speed, obviously can cause the second, even though a certain percentage are reported as moving very slow which ensures sighting is clear and therefore certain.