The Brain and Behavior

The first activity that I did was the Ambiguous figures. It confused my mind so much seeing too many things in one picture, especially the one where there is a box and it has different objects going through is. That one gave me a major headache from looking at it so long. I learned you really have to study the pictures in parts to see the whole.
The second activity that I did was the voyage to serendip. It was hard to find serendip and i figured the easiest ways to find things sometimes is to randomly choose a path or not search directly for things, but to look for the unobvious ways.
The third activity was Contrast/Color "Illusions" this one really made me realize how much our brain can sometimes trick you. By the play of light i thought that the different squares were different colors. They look different under different way of lighting such as shadows, but when you move the square out from under the shadow and put it next to the other square it is the same color. It's a really confusing concept when you write it but if you try it you'd understand what I'm trying to get to.
The forth activity was map your own blind spot. I've known for some time that my eyes have blind spots, but it makes me wonder if the opposite eye can fill in that blind spot. Seeing how big the blind spot really is makes me wonder how much we are really missing. Sometimes while driving there is a car that appears when just a minute ago there was no vehicle, thinking about it now i wonder if the car was in the blind spot in my eye or the one in my car.
All of these activities make me wonder what is really going on I'm my head that i don't know about. I think now I'll be more careful choosing color objects in the store, I don't want to end up with mismatched clothes. The blind spot activity makes me want to figure out if it's really the car's blind spot my eye's. This defiantly makes me think about how we look at things and how we actually view them.
When first starting this chapter I never really thought about how our brains are made up of neurons. Even though I knew my brain was made up of cells I didn't realize how complicated the brain really was. It amazes me how much the neurons communicate and how fast they can move. I would go to sleep to give the cells a chance to rest but they work even then.
I found it interesting that not just one part of a brain does one thing, but multiple parts of a brain work together to create one final result. That more than one part helps you actually smell, see, and move.
Before i never really understood before how drugs triggered or blocked your natural chemical releases or functions. The figure 2.6 helped me to see how drugs fooled our brain. With how complex our brain is you'd think it would have a better defense system against drugs inserted into the body. If it actually did I think it would be a bad thing because all of the drugs and chemicles the doctors give humans to get better wouldn't work.