Eyes are the Mirror of the Heart

A man's intentions can be seen in his eyes, don't look at his sword, look at his eyes!
This is what a fencing instructor said to his student in a film.
We also say that the eyes are the mirror of the heart!
This is also a romantic point of view on our eyes.
There are interesting theories on the evolutionary development of our eyes. However, I will not go into these topics in this article.
I also love scientific articles, but today I am more interested in the importance of our eyes in our lives.
Although I had very healthy eyes during my high school and university years, I must say that I had a small scratch on my iris due to a blow to my eye while playing table tennis during my secondary school years.
No, of course, this accident was not such a big problem, I only know the existence of this scratch from the trace that sometimes shifts with the movement of my eye while looking somewhere. Most of the time I don't realise it anyway. It is just a simple mark, when I realise it, I always remember those days.
When I saw one of my teachers from those days years later, he looked at my eyes and said that these were Deniz's eyes, he recognised me from my eyes.
Of course, when you grow up a little bit, your appearance changes.
Which of us can recognise an acquaintance on the road with memories from our childhood if we see them years later?
Yes, as time passes, many things change in our body, but I think our eyes, maybe the look we had in our childhood does not change.
And some people recognise us by our eyes, even though many years have passed, they do not forget those looks.
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In fact, in ancient times, it was thought that we emitted a ray from the eyes, and it was thought that we saw our surroundings with the reflection of that ray.
With an idea left over from those days, today it is still believed that there is such a thing as the evil eye.
Is there really such a thing as the evil eye?
I don't know, maybe there is.
By the way, I also believe in the evil eye to some extent, but what I believe in is not the kind of belief that the rays coming out of the eyes will affect the other person badly, I am more afraid of the effect of looks like karma.
It's a fear like the fear of the evil eye.
Anyway, these are a bit superstitious. We all have beliefs and fears that are ingrained in us.
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Actually, it is very interesting, the reason why we can see three-dimensionally although there is a very small distance between them is that the two pupils are slightly distant from each other.
On the internet, it is said that the distance between the two pupils varies between 48 mm and 73 mm.
Pupil is the name given to the smooth round opening in the centre of the iris in the structure of the eye.
We can also call it pupil.
Medical terms aside, there is really a distance of 5-6 centimetres between our pupils, and thanks to this distance, our brain is able to analyse the images coming from both eyes, taking into account the image difference caused by this narrow angle distance, and create a three-dimensional image in our minds.
The brain is an interesting organ. Even though all this technology has been developed, we have not yet fully unravelled its secrets.
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Perhaps we are only a brain.
All other organs, even our brain itself physically, we can even say that they are completely the tools used by our ego.
Maybe one day the transfer of our ego to another structure will be realised and I don't know what stage humanity will reach then.
I guess it is not possible to know these things today.
Is it really possible to transfer the self onto another thing?
Actually, our brain does this every moment. When we wake up in the morning, we still feel ourselves as ourselves, but who knows what is going on inside our brain during the night.
Who knows how many of our brain cells die and how many new cells are created.
However, even though there are physical changes, even though some information in our memory has been extracted and completely erased, when we wake up in the morning, we wake up as us again.
The self and our physical brain infrastructure are actually completely different things.
Indeed, one day the self may be transferred to another organisation.
At that time, what is real and what is a lie will probably be completely confused.
But perhaps this will never happen.
These issues are in the field of study of philosophy, so I don't want to go further into these issues today.
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Beyond these metaphysical thoughts, if we talk about more realistic issues, I think we will be able to better understand what an interesting structure our brain has in the future.
There was once an experiment.
A group of people were fitted with a special pair of glasses and thanks to these glasses they started to see everything upside down.
Yes, it is possible to do this with polarised glasses.
The interesting thing is that after a while, people wearing these polarised glasses started to see everything upside down.
The brain was somehow able to regulate the reverse signals coming from the eyes in its own way and ensure that this reverse image coming from the eyes was perceived properly.
In the continuation of the experiment, people who took off the glasses started to see everything upside down with their naked eyes.
How interesting is that? Eyes that saw properly until yesterday start to show you everything upside down.
Of course, the miracle is not in the eyes, everything is a matter of perception. Everything ends in the brain.
Naturally, this situation also improved after a while. In other words, the brain organised everything in its own way.
As I said, everything actually ends in the brain.
Our brain is a marvellous organ.
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I can't believe my eyes!
It's true, sometimes you really can't believe your own eyes.
Look, they've even done an experiment.
The eyes started to show everything backwards.
So sometimes even what we see with our own eyes can be a lie.
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We call it an optical illusion.
Since there is such a word, it means that we already know that our eyes sometimes deceive us.
In fact, as they say mirage, sometimes it is as if we are seeing something that is not really there. You know, we see a puddle of water in the desert or something like that.
Sometimes we say you're dreaming.
Yes, sometimes we really dream. In daylight, some things seem real, but what we see is a figment of our imagination.
But illusion is actually something very different, and this illusion is actually a game that our brain plays on us, not our eyes.
I come across a lot of pictures on the internet about optical illusion.
For example, straight lines somehow look like curves.
You think that some points are moving or something, but in reality those points stay where they are. They seem to move only depending on where you focus.
We can say that all these are optical illusions.
There is also a video of a spinning ballerina that my brother sent me recently.
When you look at the ballerina on the right and focus on the one in the middle, the ballerina in the middle seems to be turning in one direction, and when you look at the ballerina on the left and focus on the one in the middle again, the ballerina in the middle seems to be turning in the other direction.
It's all a difference in perception.
In fact, it is a situation caused by our brain filling in between the frames shown to us.
As I said, everything ends in the brain and perception.
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Hear but don't believe!
Yes, I think the new version of this saying should be see but don't believe.
Perception is everything.
When you don't know which one is true, you have to believe whatever you perceive what you see.
I saw it with my own eyes, Mrs Judge, the ballerina was turning to the right!
As I said, I don't know which is the truth.
Sometimes there may not even be such a thing as the truth.
We accept what we perceive according to our point of view as the truth, but for someone else, from a different point of view, the truth may be different from what we see.
Since there cannot be two truths, maybe there is no such thing as truth.
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We were saying eyes, we were saying the importance of our eyes in our lives.
Yes, physically our eyes are very important organs. Perhaps the most important organs for us.
Those beautiful eyes, which we sometimes melt in the face of their beauty and sometimes pass out with the looks that take us away from us, are also our closest sensory organs to mislead us.
I think it was Cleopatra, the poor woman who was devastated all her life because of her eye colour, but today it is now possible to change eye colour with coloured lenses.
As far as I know, it is now possible to change the colour of the eye completely with an operation, let alone coloured lenses.
It is said to be a risky operation, but nowadays it is even possible to do this at the current stage of medicine.
In other words, if they perform this operation less risky and cheaper in the near future, perhaps the eyes of someone we will say how beautiful your eyes are will no longer even be real.
Life will be a complete lie!
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Today we really live in a world where perceptions are like reality!
Perception has overtaken everything.
However, although our eyes may mislead us even when we see what we are looking at, I think our eyes are still telling the truth.
Look at the eyes, don't look at the sword!
The eyes are the mirror of the heart!
Only through your eyes can you understand the true intentions of the other person.
Love and respect to everyone from Moscow