06/03/2026
Our latest episode this week is diving into our eyes! Before we tumble down the rabbit hole of how we “see” the paranormal, we need to break down how our eyes actually function. Honestly, for myself, I had absolutely no clue. When you start giving me the technical functions of the body, my brain starts itching fast! I was searching high and low for an easy way to grasp it, and that’s when it clicked: our eyes work exactly like a digital camera.
Everything around us has light bouncing off it, and that light travels straight to your eye, passing through the cornea first. This acts just like the glass front of a camera lens, bending the light so it can focus as it squeezes inside.
Next up is the colored part of your eye, the iris, which acts like a camera's adjustable Aperture blades, while the black pupil in the middle serves as a tiny open door. If a room is bright, those blades squeeze tight to make the door small so the camera doesn't get blinded, and if it's dark, the door opens wide to scoop up every bit of light it can find. This is exactly what’s happening when your eyes dilate or constrict!
Once the light passes through this lens door, it flashes onto the retina at the back wall of your eye, which acts just like a digital sensor or film strip inside a camera. But here is the glitch: the camera lens naturally captures the picture completely upside down! Your brain then has to act like the camera's smart internal computer processor, instantly grabbing that upside-down image file and flipping it right-side up so you can see the final, processed photo. This entire operation happens automatically, faster than you can even blink! Imagine everytime you look at an object this happens.
