Getting Netflix was one of the worst ideas I ever had. I find a show and then watch it obsessively until I've seen all the episodes and it can sort of consume my life. It's a problem.
I have been watching Bones (I'm in the middle of season six) and the episode I just watched discussed a study in which participants were asked to wear glasses that made the world appear upside down. After wearing the glasses for three days, participants reported that their vision once again appeared right-side up. However, upon removing the glasses, their vision was once again upside down ... and it again took three days for everything to normalize.
So the lesson I (sadly) extract from a television series is that after a major change, it takes three days for our world-view to adjust, three days for our brains to re-adjust. Perhaps it takes our psyche or subconscious, or whatever you want to call it, longer to absorb the change, or make it feel normal, but the brain itself will accept the change within three days time.
I'm not sure what the direction of this commentary is, but it just stuck with me. Three days to see things right side up again.
Or, it says volumes about human adaptability - to good or bad inputs... we normalize upsidedowness, or bad smells or whatever. It's an amazingly good thing often, when we adapt. Unless, it's bad!
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