TheBramble
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Inspired by a post from Pervaz, I wasn't sure which forum to head for to post this as it's more physiology than psychology and probably ( 
) nothing to do with trading anyway, so here we are under GTC.
A couple of points which are offered not so much in the expectation of any response, but more as a 'Thought for the Day' - just in case you run out of thoughts, today.
I'm writing a paper on the impact of vision defects (don't ask) and I was checking out some research on van Gogh. vG is considered by some to have suffered from Xanthopsia. This is a form of chromatopsia, a distortion in colour vision, in which objects appear more yellow than they truly are. It has also been suggested that his 'style' with frequent use of 'bursts of lights' and 'flashes' were due to an associated condition impacting the optic nerve and the subsequent intepretations by the brain of what is really being 'seen'.
My point is:- if vG did have these 'defects', he wouldn't have painted them so that we (who do not have these defects) would be able to identify them. The picture would have looked 'normal'. For example, if a painter 'sees' the true reality colour RED as GREEN. When he wishes to paint something that in reality was RED (he sees it as his GREEN) he chooses 'his' GREEN paint (which in reality for the rest of us is RED). So it comes out 'right'.
(If you're also getting confused at this point - visualise traffic lights as a focus)
And before you make the decision to never lend this geek your car, it works just fine.
All you're life you're told 'this is blue, this is green, this is red...etc.'. You don't very often stop to question if the 'colour' YOU see is the same colour everyone else 'sees'.
If you were born with the same defect as our hypothetical artist above, you'd probably never know about it.
RED=RED (for you) - Everyone else is seeing GREEN. You have no idea when they say the stop-light is RED is anything different to what you are seeing.
The grass is always GREEN - you know that. But the fact that your distorted vision gives you everyone else's RED, you'd never know.
If you're confused, you should be. I often am. But does anyone get what I'm on about?
And before anyone suggest this is an analogy for trading, it wasn't, unless someone comes up with a REALLY GOOD analogy in which case that was my intention the whole time.
) nothing to do with trading anyway, so here we are under GTC.A couple of points which are offered not so much in the expectation of any response, but more as a 'Thought for the Day' - just in case you run out of thoughts, today.
I'm writing a paper on the impact of vision defects (don't ask) and I was checking out some research on van Gogh. vG is considered by some to have suffered from Xanthopsia. This is a form of chromatopsia, a distortion in colour vision, in which objects appear more yellow than they truly are. It has also been suggested that his 'style' with frequent use of 'bursts of lights' and 'flashes' were due to an associated condition impacting the optic nerve and the subsequent intepretations by the brain of what is really being 'seen'.
My point is:- if vG did have these 'defects', he wouldn't have painted them so that we (who do not have these defects) would be able to identify them. The picture would have looked 'normal'. For example, if a painter 'sees' the true reality colour RED as GREEN. When he wishes to paint something that in reality was RED (he sees it as his GREEN) he chooses 'his' GREEN paint (which in reality for the rest of us is RED). So it comes out 'right'.
(If you're also getting confused at this point - visualise traffic lights as a focus)
And before you make the decision to never lend this geek your car, it works just fine.
All you're life you're told 'this is blue, this is green, this is red...etc.'. You don't very often stop to question if the 'colour' YOU see is the same colour everyone else 'sees'.
If you were born with the same defect as our hypothetical artist above, you'd probably never know about it.
RED=RED (for you) - Everyone else is seeing GREEN. You have no idea when they say the stop-light is RED is anything different to what you are seeing.
The grass is always GREEN - you know that. But the fact that your distorted vision gives you everyone else's RED, you'd never know.
If you're confused, you should be. I often am. But does anyone get what I'm on about?
And before anyone suggest this is an analogy for trading, it wasn't, unless someone comes up with a REALLY GOOD analogy in which case that was my intention the whole time.
