My first day in school

This sounds almost too juvenile but its true! I just had my first day in school yesterday! (ok, it was in a foreign school… thats why.)

Lectures in TU/e are really different from those in Singapore. Opposed to having millions of students in an LT in Singapore, (ok, maybe a million is really an exaggeration) the lectures here are only about a class big! Okok… I’ve only attend ONE lecture. Maybe that’s why I haven’t seen how the other lectures are like yet.

Will be attending my SECOND lecture later. (The reason why im putting my lectures in strong font is because I want to let my friends in Singapore know the difference!!! P.S. I heard its even more slack in the UK… Sigh)

Here’s a lil snippet from my first lecture which I found to be really very interesting.

It’s going to be another imagination exercise which I think you will enjoy!

Imagine you have a brick in front of you. The brick is red, solid and similar to the types used to build walls. Now I want you to lift that brick up to the ceiling. (You might have to imagine yourself standing on a table to reach the ceiling) Next I want you to remove your hand from the brick.

What happens to the brick?

Statistics have shown that a majority of people will imagine the brick come crashing down. Only a minor few might imagine the brick floating in mid air. Interesting isnt it? Arent humans supposed to have a ‘vivid’ imagination? Why is it so many of us actually pictured the brick falling to the ground? Is it some sort of pre-conditioning? How accurate then is our pre-conditioning if we are also, at the very same time, preys of optical illusions?

That was my first lecture. Pretty deep huh? (Or at least its new to me)