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Show ILLUSION OF THE BRAIN. Frequent Happening Easily Explained by Psychologists. "Illusions," says a recent writer on psychology, "nro much moro frequently frequent-ly represented In our ordinary ltfo than many nro apt to bellovo. Thcro is a well-known experlenco which happens to most of us on occasion, wherein, coming to a place, a room, a church, or indeed seeing any scene to which wo are absolute strangers wo aro impressed im-pressed with a strango sense of familiarity fa-miliarity with what wo behold. Somo people declnro they seo In It a proof of the doctrine of motempsychosls, and that tho feeling was duo to tho reproduced repro-duced memory of a 'former state of ox-lstenco,' ox-lstenco,' However, wo may find In science a slmplo explanation of tho Incident. In-cident. It Is known that each half of our cerebrum, or big brain, possesses a certain Independence of tho other half. In ordinary llfo wo may tako it that both halfs act in unison so far, tho left halt appearing as tho dominant domi-nant factor in our brain-work, Now, if wo may mipposo that occasionally this unlsoM Is Interrupted and that ono-half ono-half of tho brain Is temporarily switched off It may be only for a momentfrom mo-mentfrom its noighbrr, wo may find In such an Idea an explanation of tho seiiBaUon of 'huvii-g been thoto bo-fore.' bo-fore.' Tho left hnlf, lot us Imagine, takes In tho scene. Its percipient colls acting In ndvnnco of thoso of tho right lbe, A Bocond lator tho right half ncrcnlvcs tlio sccno, and already thero Is tho Implied consclousucBa of tho left." |
