SEEING ONE’S BRAIN.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3243, 13 June 1911, Page 6

SEEING ONE’S BRAIN.

AN INTERESTING EXPERIMENT.

In Professor Lloyd’s work, “The End of the World,” the experiment of seeing one’s own brain is rather interesting. . . . TJlie! experimenter provides liimselt with a lighted candle, and enters a- perfectly dark room. He stands before a black curtain or wall or any other dark flat surface, so that details cannot be seen by the candle’s feeble light. The "candle is moved laterally, to and fro in front of the eyes, keeping it about six inches from' the Oface and 1 just below the; tip of the nose. In a few minutes something, as if a thin mist, seems to grow before the eyes. It becomes more definite and gains outline, and then soon one may distinguish the venation and the division of the brain. One is seeing his own brain! A change of position of the candle will bring out other portions into view, hut as soon as the lateral movement is stopped the vision, whatever >it is, fades away. The example given is very singular. According to the author, there is nothing more wonderful in seeing an object almost touching the organ of signt than in seeing the most distant stars hundreds of millions of miles away.

The theory is that the moving light produces a counter irritation of the nerves that conduct the impression of sight to the brain. The current is reversed and the brain is pictured on the retina. Then the impression returns through the nerve 6, and affects the brain so that we see it.