What are they looking for, do you think? The light that's making the shine? ...Or maybe people are fascinated by reflections, especially warped ones
I think there are several things going on. You're right that people are fascinated by reflections, and most of us don't really understand how light and reflection work, so I think we do tend to search for the source of the shine. Also, we seem to have an impulse to search the reflection for "accuracy", to see if it really "sees" all the same things we do. Like we want to know how far the duplicity extends? There is also a thread of evolutionary theory that supposes humans are susceptible to glossiness because it suggests wetness and humans need water to survive. So we have an instinctive attraction to shine.
I asked the young woman I became friends with on my trip if I could pay her for lessons in Tikuna, an Amazonian language, and she said yes. And then she totally surprised and delighted me by drawing me a whole scene with plants, objects, and people labeled, and creating a video so I could hear how things were pronounced.
Oh wow, what a wonderful way to share with each other. It's like the Magic Penny song: "Lend it, spend it, and you'll have so many They'll roll all over the floor." You lent a "penny" and got so much more in return.
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Date: 2023-05-03 06:47 pm (UTC)I think there are several things going on. You're right that people are fascinated by reflections, and most of us don't really understand how light and reflection work, so I think we do tend to search for the source of the shine. Also, we seem to have an impulse to search the reflection for "accuracy", to see if it really "sees" all the same things we do. Like we want to know how far the duplicity extends? There is also a thread of evolutionary theory that supposes humans are susceptible to glossiness because it suggests wetness and humans need water to survive. So we have an instinctive attraction to shine.
I asked the young woman I became friends with on my trip if I could pay her for lessons in Tikuna, an Amazonian language, and she said yes. And then she totally surprised and delighted me by drawing me a whole scene with plants, objects, and people labeled, and creating a video so I could hear how things were pronounced.
Oh wow, what a wonderful way to share with each other. It's like the Magic Penny song: "Lend it, spend it, and you'll have so many
They'll roll all over the floor." You lent a "penny" and got so much more in return.