Mysteries and Riddles of Mirror: Illusions, Mirages, and Relaxation


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
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.

Margaret

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