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Although this is only a two-dimensional
drawing, your brain looks at the contours and sees it as a three-dimensional
tunnel.
Unconsciously, you are applying the rule
that an object must get smaller as it gets further away. Since the monster doing
the chasing is not smaller, you conclude it must – in reality – be a bigger
monster.
When you look down from the top of a 100m
tall building, the people below look noticeably small. But when you look 100m
down the street, you don’t comment on how small the people look. The reason is
you have learned the ‘rules’ for scaling people at a distance, but not from
a height.
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