Monday, January 05, 2026
halucinations
As I have recorded elsewhere, my mental problems seem to have left me with a tendency to have halucinations implanted in my normal vision. This is now an accepted feature, and does not bother me at the moment. Indeed it may help sometimes.
But it begs the question as to how do you determine what is real and what is constructed or modified. Note that this may include 'embellishments' that I have ascribed to bird experts.
There are plenty of very repetative events in the real world, such as airoplanes flying over, and with modern navigation and control requirements, and these may be indistinguishable from each other.
So were those two crows flying away, imaged or real?
If you are out with another ornithologist, you stand a good chance of getting it right at the macro level of identification. If they are experts you may have a problem in the details. Because the expert knows what the birds are meant to look like, and they maybe halucinate, rather than you. How on earth would you know without some outside information.
I have been very impressed with my halucinations fitting smoothly into my vision, and they dont disturb me overmuch. I guess they will be filed away somewhere when the space gets filled up.
Do not get worried about any of this. Evolution is more likely to have got it optimised better than you thinking about it.
Martin
