I was working with my daughter on a science fair project for fourth grade.\u00a0 She laid out five different colored pieces of paper and put a treat on each, then separately let go of our cat and dog and recorded which color they went to eat.<\/span><\/p>\n Human vs. Dog sight<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n She did that five times to see if our pets had a color preference.\u00a0 In doing the research for the project, we came across pictures of what a dog sees and what a cat sees.\u00a0 The dog, of course could only see the color green and some shades of blue, and the cat saw at night, but\u00a0 the pictures were very blurry.\u00a0 My 10-year old daughter said \u201cwow my Fluffy and Pinwheel really can\u2019t see me, I wonder what we can\u2019t see.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n She might has well turned on the start switch for some crazy Rube Goldberg machine that goes through 1879 mechanical stages to pour a cup of coffee.\u00a0 I was obsessing about that statement for days.\u00a0 What is it that we cannot see?\u00a0 Perhaps we can\u2019t see ghosts or floating spirits.\u00a0 Perhaps not auras around someone\u2019s head or the body radiating sexual interest.\u00a0 There are certainly people who think they see those things and talk to ghosts, but are they just charlatans looking to catch us in a moment of wanting to believe anything?\u00a0 What is just below our perception level, and what is way below our ability to perceive?<\/span><\/p>\n In a landmark book, The Gift of Fear<\/u><\/em><\/strong>, Gavin de Becker said that fear was a gift and that we intuitively know when we are in danger or that something bad is going to happen to us.\u00a0 He presented that there were all kinds of cues that we don\u2019t openly perceive that tell us we were in trouble and many times we ignore these cues.\u00a0 He told the story of a woman who noticed a man walking up in her rear-view mirror and ignored it right before she was accosted.\u00a0 He said if we could somehow make ourselves tune into the cues telling us we are in danger, we would be safer, and that is a gift, thus the title.\u00a0 He went on to talk about intuition being a series of cues that we don\u2019t necessarily perceive.<\/span><\/p>\n Malcolm Gladwell talks about \u201cthin-slicing\u201d in Blink<\/u><\/em><\/strong>, a book about the intuitive parts of decisions making.\u00a0 He said there can be \u201cas much value in the blink of an eye than in months of rational analysis.\u201d\u00a0 He encourages people to not push aside their first thought in favor of getting more information in making a decision.\u00a0 Some people do seem more intuitive and it doesn\u2019t necessarily go with intelligence or access to more information.\u00a0 What is it that these people are seeing that perhaps others can\u2019t see?\u00a0 Or is it a vision question at all.\u00a0 Maybe one of the other senses is more active.<\/span><\/p>\n My partner and I can walk in our waiting room and do a flash diagnosis on a person without meeting them and we are 90% correct.\u00a0 In fact, it is so uncanny, sometimes we tell the other person about their patient they have seen for months and when they look into it it is true.\u00a0 We can tell anxiety, depression, chronic pain, a personality disorder, a critical incident PTSD, even brain damage in a matter of seconds.\u00a0 It is said some psychologists develop a third eye or a sixth sense for people because we live through so many lives at once.<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019ve noticed a lot of anxiety cases I have get more anxious when the weather changes.\u00a0 When there is days of nice weather and all of a sudden a major storm is coming to town I see the difference in them.\u00a0 Cops are always saying that they know they will be busy when they come in and there is a full moon outside.\u00a0 More babies are born during a full moon.\u00a0 High tides affect that also.\u00a0 There are more psychiatric hospital admissions in nights after a full moon.\u00a0 I\u2019ll go one further, you ever had a big event coming tomorrow and you are really anxious about it, and then your computer fails, or some other electrical thing goes down.\u00a0 I have even seen when a person is upset that balloons in the house tend to follow that person around.\u00a0 Is there something there that we are not really seeing?\u00a0 We can record it or at least what it affects, but damn if we can see it.<\/span><\/p>\n There\u2019s a lot we don\u2019t see, runs of bad luck, runs of good luck, times where everything goes right and everything goes wrong all at once.\u00a0 Single people always say when you have a girlfriend or boyfriend there are tons of other people you want to date, when you are alone there are none.\u00a0 Sometimes that is just random events<\/a>, sometimes it happens together for a reason, although we don\u2019t see the reason, it\u2019s there.\u00a0 As humans, we have this stupid believe that we know the whole world and why things happen.\u00a0 We believe things generally have a singular cause.\u00a0 Not so on all accounts.\u00a0 Not only do things have multiple causes (as I\u2019ve mentioned before), but we can\u2019t explain a lot of our world.\u00a0 Remember only 5-10% of the oceans life has been seen, and that\u2019s tangible.\u00a0 We\u2019ve got a long way to go with spirits and auras and fear and tons of other topics.<\/span><\/p>\n So Skylar placed in the Science Fair and got a ribbon which is really good for a kid that struggles.\u00a0 It seems all the parents and teachers were blown away by the pictures of what a dog and cat can see.\u00a0 By the way, bulls don\u2019t see red either, only faded shades of green and blue, so the red cape is \u201cfake news\u201d (to use the modern term).\u00a0 To go one better, we all have different levels of the receptors in our eyes, so your red is probably going to totally different from the red I see.\u00a0 If only everyone could use that measure to be more accepting of others (and others\u2019 politics also) the world would be a better place!<\/span><\/p>\n Site Administrator:\u00a0 Gary S. 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Aumiller Ph.D.\u00a0 ABPP I was working with my daughter on a science fair project for fourth grade.\u00a0 She laid out five different colored pieces of paper and put a treat on each, then separately let go of our cat and dog and recorded which color they went […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17168884],"tags":[17168980,17168803,17168797],"class_list":["post-5654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motives","tag-intuition","tag-police","tag-police-psychology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7245,"url":"http:\/\/policepsychologyblog.com\/?p=7245","url_meta":{"origin":5654,"position":0},"title":"Police Psychology: Can We Sense Danger?","author":"Gary Aumiller","date":"February 2, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Can We Sense Danger? 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