In 1900, the
so-called Palace of Illusions and the Palace of Mirages had great success at
the Paris World Exhibition. In the Palace of Illusions, each wall of the large
hexagonal hall was a huge polished mirror. The viewer inside this hall saw himself
lost among his 468 doubles.
At the Mirage Palace in Paris |
And in the
Palace of Mirages, in the same mirror hall in every corner, a picture was
depicted. Parts of the mirror with the images were “turned over” using hidden
mechanisms. The viewer was founding himself in an unusual tropical forest, then
among the endless halls of the Arabic style, then in a huge Indian temple. The
"tricks" of a hundred years ago in our time were adopted by the
famous magician David Copperfield. His famous stunt with a vanishing car is
entirely due to the Mirage Palace.
At the Mirage Palace in Paris |
The mirror of relaxation is one of the novelties that has been successfully used in the rooms
of psychological relief. However, the essence of the novelty is literally
sanctified by centuries. It is proposed to use the law of binocular vision to
relieve fatigue. Everyone who begins to see poorly from overwork can put a
burning candle in front of him. Behind it, at a distance of 5-10 cm, place a
mirror and alternately look at the dancing light, then at its reflection. The
living light, especially its tip, will alternately excite the receptive fields
of the human retina and indirectly the cells of the frontal lobes of the brain,
which, having received information from the right eye and the left, will build
an image of the living fire. It is this image that will unload the muscles,
normalize the pressure inside the eye and save you from incipient disorder.