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
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance during his lunch break and then go to bed around 6 in the evening. Pirsig joked that his co-workers noticed that he was "a lot less perky" than everyone else. In "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", Pirsig explores the meaning and concept of "quality"; a term he conceives as undefinable. Quality is a phenomenon that exists between the subject and the object. The perception of a painting, for example, requires both an observer and an object. His thesis is that to truly experience quality one must both embrace and apply it as best fits the requirements of the