Aging and Perceptual Changes

[Milo]

I've heard a lot about the brain solidifying/finishing development around age 21-22, and I was wondering if after the process was finished that perceptual changes would occur.

So I am asking everyone if they had any big perceptual changes around this age. I am guessing so because I've heard a few songs with lyrics pertaining to a big perceptual change in their 20's. One being Incubus's "Pardon Me."

I have been having flashes of where I feel like I am in a giant animated painting where everyone does what they are "programmed"?/fated to do. It's like my mind focuses less on individual things and more on everything at once--just like when you look at a picture as apposed to looking at the same thing, but in real life.

 

[not]

My perception of things continually change as new data comes in and I review and adapt my understanding. Just last night I had a profound dream that has changed my perception. I realized in my dream that there is a time delay from the time light hits my retina and my brain processes the light into sight. Not only am I experiencing a time delay, my brain is flipping the information upright. But if I concentrate I can react to the data in real time which gives me a fractions-of-a-second edge over those who wait for the delay. - Our brains manipulate time.

This opens up an entire world of possibilities.

 

[BigApplePi]

Milo. Not sure what you are after. I know as my age changes (I notice it changes from time-to-time), my perceptual interests change. I'm less interested in one thing and more in another. This is going to bias any test.

I notice my perception can also change from day to day or hour to hour. I may notice or stop noticing my body is thirsty, a plant in the window growing, a breeze outside, noise in the street.

 

[Milo]

Milo. Not sure what you are after. I know as my age changes (I notice it changes from time-to-time), my perceptual interests change. I'm less interested in one thing and more in another. This is going to bias any test.

I notice my perception can also change from day to day or hour to hour. I may notice or stop noticing my body is thirsty, a plant in the window growing, a breeze outside, noise in the street.

My perception has remained the same for quite some time, and has only recently been fluctuating into abstract perceptions--not based on any truths that I know.

I guess I was just curious if perceptual changes automatically happened at a certain age and renewed an even more powerful zest for life (I was thinking in terms of a motivator for high achievement, because during the times these changes happen, I feel like I can do anything because reality becomes more fantasy-like).

I am actually thinking schizophrenia is a possibility--though it doesn't seem like a bad thing when experiencing it.

 

[Milo]

My perception of things continually change as new data comes in and I review and adapt my understanding. Just last night I had a profound dream that has changed my perception. I realized in my dream that there is a time delay from the time light hits my retina and my brain processes the light into sight. Not only am I experiencing a time delay, my brain is flipping the information upright. But if I concentrate I can react to the data in real time which gives me a fractions-of-a-second edge over those who wait for the delay. - Our brains manipulate time.

This opens up an entire world of possibilities.

I actually had that realization not that long ago--but how do you know it is real time when your experience's happen inside of your brain?

 

[not]

I don't know specifically. But I do have a sense about me that kinda feels like it knows something is happening before it is processed as sight. Meaning possibly other parts of my body receive the raw data and react while my brain waits for the information to give me vision. I don't know if that makes sense...

 

[Milo]

I don't know specifically. But I do have a sense about me that kinda feels like it knows something is happening before it is processed as sight. Meaning possibly other parts of my body receive the raw data and react while my brain waits for the information to give me vision. I don't know if that makes sense...

I think I know that feeling. Perhaps you just described the cause of deja vu and you are using what causes it as a way of sensing.

 

[BigApplePi]

Maybe you guys each know what the other is saying, but for me I can't follow you unless you get real specific. Sounds like schizophrenia would be an extreme form of this, yet falls short.

Dreams can change my perception of things especially if they are revealing of something hidden. But by now I can usually figure out where my dreams came from so they are not so new. Not always is this the case.