LINING UP LINES
Closing one eye and then lining up other lines of things (walls, trees, furniture, plants… whatever) until it lines up with something else. It is like an over-lay of our vision from one thing to another. Only Loren and I know about this… perhaps a few others. Only crazy people do such things and maybe owls.
“Owls have many interesting features, however probably the most interesting of these features are their eyes. An owl’s eyes are unlike the eyes of other birds, which usually are located on the side of the head. In fact an owl’s eyes may account for one to five percent of their body weight depending on the species and are large, round, and facing forward. This forward facing position gives the bird a binocular vision, able to see an object with both eyes at the same time. Furthermore what this means is that the owl is able to see objects in three dimensions (height, width, and depth), this also gives them the ability to judge distances in a similar way that humans can. An owl’s field of vision is about 110 degrees, with about 70% of that accounting for binocular vision.
An owl’s eyes are so well developed that they are able to see quite efficiently in low lighting conditions. However interestingly enough, their eyes are not really “eyeballs” rather than they are elongated tubes that are held in place by bony structures in the skull known as Sclerotic rings. It is for this reason that owls are unable to roll or move their eyes, instead it can only look straight ahead.
However, to the owl’s advantage is its flexible head, which is able to turn around and almost upside down as well. This is more than enough to help compensate for not being able to move its eyes. An owl’s neck is very long, flexible and hidden by feathers. Their necks consist of fourteen vertebrae, which is twice as many as humans have. This allows for these amazing creatures to turn their heads through a range of 270 degrees measured from a facing forward position.” Animal Qustions.org
“Fear not; you are of more value than many sparrows.” Jesus