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a question of experience and depiction
Mar. 26th, 2012 06:57 amI don't want to go into what brought this question to mind - it was a random mental association, not anything that's physically happened to me lately - or prejudice responses by revealing my own answer first, but I have a question to which I'd like as many responses as possible:
You might be familiar with how, in (old-time, mostly, I guess) comics and cartoons, if a character gets hit on the head, or falls over heavily, that person then sits or stands dazed for a moment while tiny birds suddenly appear and fly chirping around the head. Then they vanish.
My question is, do you consider those chirping birds to be just some peculiar convention of cartoon storytelling, or do they reflect something that actually happens to your perception when you hit your head?
You might be familiar with how, in (old-time, mostly, I guess) comics and cartoons, if a character gets hit on the head, or falls over heavily, that person then sits or stands dazed for a moment while tiny birds suddenly appear and fly chirping around the head. Then they vanish.
My question is, do you consider those chirping birds to be just some peculiar convention of cartoon storytelling, or do they reflect something that actually happens to your perception when you hit your head?
