![]() This is why we can ‘see’ faces in clouds, trees, or even from just two dots and a line. The visual system starts to adapt after we receive the same information over time (this is why you can experience visual changes by staring at anything for a long time) but we also have a system that interprets faces very easily. ![]() The descriptions differed greatly across individuals and included: (a) huge deformations of one’s own face (reported by 66% of the fifty participants) (b) a parent’s face with traits changed (18%), of whom 8% were still alive and 10% were deceased (c) an unknown person (28%) (d) an archetypal face, such as that of an old woman, a child, or a portrait of an ancestor (28%) (e) an animal face such as that of a cat, pig, or lion (18%) (f ) fantastical and monstrous beings (48%).Ĭaputo suggests that the dramatic effects might be caused by a combination of basic visual distortions affecting the face-specific interpretation system. The set-up was tried out on 50 people, and the effects they describe are quite striking:Īt the end of a 10 min session of mirror gazing, the participant was asked to write what he or she saw in the mirror. The participant just has to gaze at his or her reflected face within the mirror and usually “after less than a minute, the observer began to perceive the strange-face illusion”. ![]() The author, Italian psychologist Giovanni Caputo, describes his set up which seems to reliably trigger the illusion: you need a room lit only by a dim lamp (he suggests a 25W bulb) that is placed behind the sitter, while the participant stares into a large mirror placed about 40 cm in front. To trigger the illusion you need to stare at your own reflection in a dimly lit room. Spending two mesmerist tricks on this feat does not bypass any immunity the creature might have to its own gaze, such as a vampire’s immunity to mind-affecting effects or the fact that the nymph’s blinding beauty works only on humanoids.An intriguing article has just been published in the journal Perception about a never-before-described visual illusion where your own reflection in the mirror seems to become distorted and shifts identity. Special: A mesmerist’s hypnotic stare, a witch’s or hag’s evil eye, and a vampire’s dominate ability are treated as gaze attacks for the purpose of this feat, as are abilities that are triggered when looking at a creature, such as a nymph’s blinding beauty or a sea hag’s horrific appearance. ![]() If you expend two mesmerist tricks instead, you gain immunity to that creature’s gaze and also reflect its gaze back at it, affecting it with its own gaze. In addition, as a swift action, you can expend one mesmerist trick to make yourself immune to that creature’s gaze until the beginning of your next turn. Prerequisite(s): Spellcraft 10 ranks, bold stare and mesmerist tricks class features.īenefit(s): When you avert your eyes from a creature with a gaze attack (including one produced by a spell like eyebite or burning gaze or by a magic item), you can roll twice and select the better result when checking to see whether you are exposed to that gaze attack and when rolling your miss chance on attacks made against that creature (the latter doesn’t stack with Blind-Fight). The power of your psychic stare wards you from the potent gazes of your enemies.
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