If you need an excuse...

The only good thing about my degree at the moment is 1001PSY. The lecturer is a bore. But the subject matter is way awesome. It's all about how our brain figures things out. Cognitive psychology it's called. Has to do with neurons and the chemical impulses which travel down the axon to the terminal buttons that connect to either a muscle cell, a gland or another neuron and release baby molecules that lock into place. Then they send messages. It's ridiculously cool. We also learn about cool things like the cocktail party effect.

It basically explains eavesdropping. So if you need an excuse... tell them it's animal nature. If you're in a large group of people and you're talking to a few people and across the room someone says your name, your ears will pick it up and you'll lose attention to who ever you're talking to and pay attention to wherever your name came from.

We've all experienced this, right? Right.

The reason is that pretty much as soon as we're born we are interested in anything to do with ourselves.

We've also learned that what we call common sense can sometimes be a genetic disorder which can prevent 'common' sense. Like being about to figure out words without hearing them "putting 2 and 2 together". If we see an incomplete circle our brain will not automatically tell us that it is a 'c' because it isn't, it just has a break. So we disregard the break and know that it is actually a circle. With a break. A lot of optical illusions are designed to put two opposite images in one setting to confuse our brain. Creating the "trippy" effect that we see optical illusions as. So in one lecture we were just looking at all these types of optical illusions haha. It was great.






I still hate uni :)



Just so you know.