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Given their sleek ways, cats have long been a symbol of mysticism, and now the reputation gets a boost from new research that finds common house cats see things that are invisible to us.
Everything from psychedelic stripes on flowers to flashy patterned feathers on birds are likely detectable by cats and certain other animals, while humans remain oblivious to such things. We are also -- perhaps luckily -- missing out on seeing a whole world of urine markers blanketing the landscape.
The secret behind the feline vision "superpower" is ultraviolet light (UV) detection. A new paper, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, found that cats, dogs and certain other animals see this form of light that is usually invisible to humans.
DeepVisions
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Given their sleek ways, cats have long been a symbol of mysticism, and now the reputation gets a boost from new research that finds common house cats see things that are invisible to us.
Everything from psychedelic stripes on flowers to flashy patterned feathers on birds are likely detectable by cats and certain other animals, while humans remain oblivious to such things. We are also -- perhaps luckily -- missing out on seeing a whole world of urine markers blanketing the landscape.
The secret behind the feline vision "superpower" is ultraviolet light (UV) detection. A new paper, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, found that cats, dogs and certain other animals see this form of light that is usually invisible to humans.
Now i've never owned a cat or a dog but i've always thought cats were weird. They are always staring at nothing or playing with random things and this may explain why.
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Aleister
reply to post by rickymouse
What's TLE and TBI? Interesting post. And thread.
Aleister
reply to post by rickymouse
What's TLE and TBI? Interesting post. And thread.
rickymouse
Well, when your mind gets messed up from TLE, it sometimes shuts down the filters in the brain that filter out these things. Our eyes can see these things but the mind filters them out. When I first had the TBI the filters were all messed up and I could see the pollen swirling around the bees in the sun from the flowers. I thought I was hallucinating, but I don't think I was, I was seeing something that was real, something I had never been able to see before. I studied the filtering system of the brain pretty intensely to see why I had seen these things. There is some articles addressing stuff like this around. It has to do with high misdirected energy levels in the brain. I don't think it was a hallucination. One article I read recently said that our eyes are somewhat capable of seeing thing in the UV and infrared spectrum. Most people do not know we have this ability though. We also have a fairly good echo location system, sort of like the dolphins and bats have.
tencap77
reply to post by DeepVisions
Thanks for the post. very instructive. gave you a star. and as far as phsycodelic? my cat and I should be seeing eye to eye !