Visual looming syndrome "fear of pointy objects hitting the eye", "weird sensation behind the eyes", "difficulty in focusing on objects nearby, which are moving and are not operated by the observer, such as windscreen wipers or a pencil someone else is holding". In these studies visual looming syndrome is often referred as sharp edges eye syndrome (SEES). "Looming" is a term used in the study of the perception, as it relates directly to psychology. Looming refers to the rapid expansion in the size of any given image. As the image becomes increasingly large on the perceiver's retina, i.e., when an object "looms", there
Chicago Institute for the Moving Image Chicago Institute for the Moving Image The Chicago Institute for the Moving Image (CIMI) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to including audiences and filmmakers who have been overlooked by mainstream media. Founded in 2000 by Joshua Flanders, their first seminar "Intention, Movement, Perception" examined the connection between intention and action in the arts, sciences, and religion. Featured presenters were Paul Sills, a director and founding member of The Second City, who presented the Spolin Technique of improvisation, named after his mother Viola Spolin, and Rabbi Douglas Goldhamer, author of "This Is For Everyone: Universal Principals of Healing Prayer and the