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Asked by Resh@science to Chris, Hayley, Jimi, Maddison, Omur on 14 Mar 2016.
Question: Why do our eyes see things upside down before processing it properly?
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Maddison Coke answered on 14 Mar 2016:
Its to do with the lens at the front of your eye. Its like a lens in a camera. It helps your eye focus on different parts of what you are seeing, but also due to the way it is shaped, inverts the image and that is what is seen by the back of your eye ball. As you said its up to your brain to flip it round the right way!
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Omur Tastan answered on 14 Mar 2016:
It is due to the curvature of the cornea in our eye where the light reflected from objects enter our eyes. Due to cornea being curved, the inage appears as inverted-Optics yayyy! 🙂 And smart brains correct the image for us:)
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Hayley Moulding answered on 14 Mar 2016:
It is all to do with the lenses in our eyes! Because these lenses are curved i means that when we see things the image is the wrong way up! It is like looking at the back of a spoon! When we look into the curved bit of the spoon we are upside down! The spoon isn’t as luck as us! We have our brains to work out what way round everything is!!
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Resh@science commented on :
Does this apply with colour of the site?
Sammy commented on :
The images we see are made up of light reflected from the objects we look at. This light enters the eye through the cornea. Because this part of the eye is curved, it bends the light, creating an upside down image on the retina (this is eventually put the right way up by the brain).