NeuroNugget 2: You See the World Upside Down
You See the World Upside Down But Your Brain Flips It Here’s something weird. You’re seeing this sentence upside down. Not in a metaphorical way. Literally. When light enters your eyes, it bends through your lens and lands on the back of your eyeball inverted. The top becomes the bottom, the left becomes the right. So why doesn’t the world look upside down? Because your brain is quietly fixing it for you. 👁️ Your Eyes Flip It. Your Brain Fixes It :) Your eyes are like little cameras. The lenses bend light and project the image onto the retina, which is the back of your eye. But thanks to how lenses work, the image ends up upside down and reversed. That’s normal. It happens to everyone. It’s just physics. But you don’t see an upside-down world. Why? Because your brain knows how to handle it. It’s been doing it since you were a baby. Your brain doesn’t flip the image like turning a photo. Instead, it understands the world based on context, memory, and experience. The visual ...