{"id":290,"date":"2018-01-17T12:16:27","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T12:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antonyhallphd.wordpress.com\/?p=290"},"modified":"2019-08-15T18:29:32","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T18:29:32","slug":"drawing-a-strange-face-in-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/drawing-a-strange-face-in-the-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"Drawing a strange face in the dark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after my experience of the &#8220;Strange face in the mirror experiment&#8221;&nbsp; I made these drawings in low light conditions as a way of recording the perceivable&nbsp;elements of my face and shape of the head. The particles of carbon and graphite reflect well the visual noise, like static, one experiences&nbsp;in the experiment. These drawings don&#8217;t&nbsp;illustrate the hallucinations I experienced [these will follow]\n<p><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;staring at one&#8217;s own reflection in a mirror in a darkened room for some time can induce vivid hallucinations. For purposes of research, I had to try it&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/my-experience-of-the-strange-face-illusion\/\">My experience of the \u2018strange face illusion\u2019&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_291\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-291\" style=\"width: 3024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-291\" src=\"https:\/\/antonyhallphd.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/img_1462.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1462\" width=\"3024\" height=\"4032\" srcset=\"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/img_1462.jpg 3024w, https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/img_1462-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/img_1462-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/img_1462-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3024px) 100vw, 3024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-291\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drawing in near darkness<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_292\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-292\" style=\"width: 3024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-292\" src=\"https:\/\/antonyhallphd.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/img_1464.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1464\" width=\"3024\" height=\"4032\" srcset=\"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/img_1464.jpg 3024w, https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/img_1464-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/img_1464-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/img_1464-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3024px) 100vw, 3024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-292\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drawing in near darkness<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span class=\"s1\"><br \/>\nFor my description of my experience of the &#8216;strange face&#8217;, illusion see here&#8230; &#8220;staring at one&#8217;s own reflection in a mirror in a darkened room for some time can induce vivid hallucinations. For purposes of research, I had to try it&#8221;&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/my-experience-of-the-strange-face-illusion\/\">My experience of the \u2018strange face illusion\u2019&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after my experience of the &#8220;Strange face in the mirror experiment&#8221;&nbsp; I made these drawings in low light conditions as a way of recording the perceivable&nbsp;elements of my face and shape of the head. The particles of carbon and graphite reflect well the visual noise, like static, one experiences&nbsp;in the experiment. These drawings don&#8217;t&nbsp;illustrate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32],"tags":[6,44,60,10,177,20,75],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1382,"href":"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions\/1382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antonyhall.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}