Sensory Perception

[frankiej]

A little question to those with colour vision difficulties, how is your night vision?

Not too bad... colour doesn't matter as much in the dark.

I did read somewhere recently that colour blind people can spot camouflage easier than someone who can see colours properly...

[Reforged]

A little question to those with colour vision difficulties, how is your night vision?

Not too bad... colour doesn't matter as much in the dark.

I did read somewhere recently that colour blind people can spot camouflage easier than someone who can see colours properly...

Seen as how I've managed to crawl across your lawn in camo gear under the cover of darkness and hide in your wardrobe for about a week I'd say that theory is pretty much debunked.
Friendly advice, look in all of your shoes before you put them on.

[Faith No More]

I did read somewhere recently that colour blind people can spot camouflage easier than someone who can see colours properly...

'Tis true.

http://discovermagazine.com/2007/apr/the...-blindness

As for night vision, clarity is quite fine, however, it becomes even more difficult to discern colors in low light.

[Angrboda]

Regarding night vision.

This is not an educated opinion, so take it for what it's worth. The receptors in the human eye come in two basic kinds (IIRC), rods and cones. The cones, of which there are three types, detect color. (And I believe the most common color blindness is a defect with respect to the cones.) The rods on the other hand are purely black and white. However, the rods are more sensitive than the cones (in normal individuals), so in low light conditions, our vision is primarily black and white, as there is insufficient light to adequately stimulate the cones. If you have trouble seeing colors in low light, that just means you're normal. I don't know if there is any relationship between the defects which cause color blindness and the rods, so that part I don't know. I have also learned that there are people (well, at this point, one person), who has four different fully functional cone types. They can discern variations in color that normal three cone individuals can't. (And if I recall correctly, some color blindness results in 4 cone types, not all of which are functional).

Trivial fact. The retina where our peripheral vision is detected is extremely cone poor, so we see things at the periphery of our vision as largely black and white. However, our brains "fill in" the missing colors in our perceived perception so that we don't notice any change in color levels at the periphery.



(tetra-chromats)

[jonb]

The reason why I asked was I have a little pet thought, that many differences that are commonly called disabilities are not so much disabilities but genetic differences that are useful to the group. For instance I am strongly dyslexic and left handed, when I used to work in graphic design a good 70% of artists were left-handed, and commonly they had difficulties with spelling. Now although I have difficulty with linear patterns like those in writing, I have stronger than average abilities in noticing patterns in two and three dimensional space and this I have found common among the dyslexics I know. It occurred to me that the most common form of colour blindness is a shortage of blue receptors so is there compensating factor among some people with difficulties in colour perception that they might have more than average the amount of low light receptors? Sorry I have to stop now there is something unpleasant in my shoe.

[Tino]

First drink in about three months. Its a little treat I give myself now and then. Nothing to be concerned about.

Hmmm....

[Rhizomorph13]

I used to grow them

Purely out of curiosity... how?

Well,

Start with half pint canning jars, combine brown rice flour, vermiculite, and water in the right combination and fill jars up to almost the top then top off with just vermiculite (To present a dead zone so contaminants will get caught within the vermiculite layer). Innoculate with spore syringe filled with psilocybe cubensis spores then place in cool dark place for about a week until mycelium grows (rhizomorphic potentiates pinhead formation) then allow jars to be in the light of your room. Within a week pinheads should form. Birth the cake out of the jar and place into growing tank on top of the canning lid.

I had a 10 gallon fish tank with a plexi insert that fit in there at a 45 degree angle. This was to allow me to humidify with a spray bottle without actually spraying the cakes. Within two weeks many mushrooms will grow and you should gently harvest them to allow space for new growth. At the end of the two weeks the first flush will have concluded and you might get a few more after that, but it would be best to just birth new cakes and place them inside for a new first flush.

I grew using the psylocybe fanaticus tek or PF tek for short. The guy who made it used to mail out spores from Seattle but the feds busted him a while ago. If you're interested in the specifics you can go here for the tek: http://www.fungifun.org/English/Pftek

I used a steamer to sterilize my substrate, and used upside-down canning lids to top off my jars, but the rest is almost exactly what I was doing to grow them.

[Something completely different]

Well,

Start with half pint canning jars, combine brown rice flour, vermiculite, and water in the right combination and fill jars up to almost the top then top off with just vermiculite (To present a dead zone so contaminants will get caught within the vermiculite layer). Innoculate with spore syringe filled with psilocybe cubensis spores then place in cool dark place for about a week until mycelium grows (rhizomorphic potentiates pinhead formation) then allow jars to be in the light of your room. Within a week pinheads should form. Birth the cake out of the jar and place into growing tank on top of the canning lid.

I had a 10 gallon fish tank with a plexi insert that fit in there at a 45 degree angle. This was to allow me to humidify with a spray bottle without actually spraying the cakes. Within two weeks many mushrooms will grow and you should gently harvest them to allow space for new growth. At the end of the two weeks the first flush will have concluded and you might get a few more after that, but it would be best to just birth new cakes and place them inside for a new first flush.

I grew using the psylocybe fanaticus tek or PF tek for short. The guy who made it used to mail out spores from Seattle but the feds busted him a while ago. If you're interested in the specifics you can go here for the tek: http://www.fungifun.org/English/Pftek

I used a steamer to sterilize my substrate, and used upside-down canning lids to top off my jars, but the rest is almost exactly what I was doing to grow them.

aren`t you scared that sharing this kind of information on the web might have unfortunate consequences?

[jonb]

aren`t you scared that sharing this kind of information on the web might have unfortunate consequences?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYUOnj7pE...re=related

[Reforged]

Well,

Start with half pint canning jars, combine brown rice flour, vermiculite, and water in the right combination and fill jars up to almost the top then top off with just vermiculite (To present a dead zone so contaminants will get caught within the vermiculite layer). Innoculate with spore syringe filled with psilocybe cubensis spores then place in cool dark place for about a week until mycelium grows (rhizomorphic potentiates pinhead formation) then allow jars to be in the light of your room. Within a week pinheads should form. Birth the cake out of the jar and place into growing tank on top of the canning lid.

I had a 10 gallon fish tank with a plexi insert that fit in there at a 45 degree angle. This was to allow me to humidify with a spray bottle without actually spraying the cakes. Within two weeks many mushrooms will grow and you should gently harvest them to allow space for new growth. At the end of the two weeks the first flush will have concluded and you might get a few more after that, but it would be best to just birth new cakes and place them inside for a new first flush.

I grew using the psylocybe fanaticus tek or PF tek for short. The guy who made it used to mail out spores from Seattle but the feds busted him a while ago. If you're interested in the specifics you can go here for the tek: http://www.fungifun.org/English/Pftek

I used a steamer to sterilize my substrate, and used upside-down canning lids to top off my jars, but the rest is almost exactly what I was doing to grow them.

aren`t you scared that sharing this kind of information on the web might have unfortunate consequences?

Why? Anyone who reads this little conversation can see I'm asking purely out of curiosity about an event that took place a substantially long time ago.
Nothing out of place here. Any enforcement agency reading this would be idiots to think there was...

:-)