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P3D Re: Stereo Dreaming


  • From: wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Bob Wier)
  • Subject: P3D Re: Stereo Dreaming
  • Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 01:42:48 -0600

>Now THIS is astounding if true, and all my skeptical instincts are
>aquiver! Does anyone either remember the source of Boris' memory, or
>have some keywords they think would get me to the correct archive? 
>This would seem to be conclusive proof that the brain can store
>detailed stereo cues and reconstruct them in memory.  My next question
>would be whether the brain can devise such mental images from
>"scratch" - experiencing stereo scenes never seen in reality.
>
>>From the Department of Useless Research, Specious Argument Division,
>Wild-Eyed Speculation Committee, I remain -
>
>Bruce (I'm not a Doctor, but I played Doctor when I was eight.)
>Springsteen

Take a look at the archives and specify the word:

eidetic

I began this discussion in digest 2472 (Dec 25, 1997) with a note about
an article from an old Psychology Today magazine. The evidence for true
photographic memory is convincing, where a person can "hold" and image still
and actually read/see information which had not been "seen" before - one of the
test for this was by the use of stereopsis in two different flat images...

http://www.calcite.rocky.edu/photo-3d

THANKS

              Bob Wier
     mailto:wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
   1:40 AM Sunday, November 8, 1998
        Unix/Internet Administrator
   Rocky Mountain College, Billings MT.
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