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Eyes are freaky af (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/showerthoughts
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Just stared into a lemurs eyes for half a minute aparently (that felt like an hour) and it freaked me tf out. Since been staring into peoples eyes or animals eyes and its consistently weird and freaky no matter what. Also it feels like my conciousness is behind my eyes and maybe thats why they say eyes are the window to the soul.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Animals often avoid eye contact, it's considered rude. Humans are a very touchy-talky-looky species. So yeah, it's freaky. I used to think I suffer from face-blindness (forgot the fancy name of it), then it occurred to me that I just straight up forget/avoid to look into people's eyes so I never even see their faces. Now I sometimes try to make a conscious effort to look at people's eyes - but how long is even appropriate?

Your story of the lemur reminds of staring into the eyes of a genet for probably about a century during a somewhat substance-enhanced camping trip. Can't say I was freaked out, rather honoured by the animal deciding to hang out with me for a while?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A Genet? That's crazy. I didn't know they were still releasing new animals.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I had no clue this thing existed till I met it - I did think it was a lemur at first but then I looked it up. They probably arrived in the Iberian peninsula as pets so it's not too surprising that they approach people.

[–] Mezzy 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Prosopagnosia (face blindness) is the disorder you are thinking of

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I keep confusing it with pareidolia - seeing faces everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

If you had both, would you see faces everywhere that you never recognize?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yep and the ted chiang short story on that is brilliant.