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The way in which they eyes lens demagnifies all objects doesn’t actually have to be magnified in the brain if all visual objects are equally demagnified much like universal scale reduction. That way brain magnification would be a metaphor for closer objects still obeying relative perspective size increases even if our overall conscious mind was still demagnified in the background. In other words the rate of perspective increase might be the same ratio no matter how much smaller or bigger the objects in the distant horizon appear to start out with. Perhaps the hard problem of consciousness would’ve been resolved immediately only if we fully trusted the mathematics of our eye’s lens!
Spiderman upside-down kiss

The idea the sky and the ground are upside-down as if we were somersaulting in a fighter jet seems absurd until we realise that life has been a rollercoaster ride throughout evolutionary history for millennia. This is far longer of an adaptation period than wearing upside-down mirror goggles for a few weeks! Our brain after all is more complex than a fighter jet where visual parallax occurs not only when looking side-to-side but also when looking at an object thrown up and down vertically or diagonally with the horizon in the background. When we think of a dream we forget that we aren’t only resting our active agonist muscles we used during the day but also our hidden antagonistic muscles in back, triceps or hip extensors that help guide our chest, biceps or hip flexors respectively. That way when we relax our muscles during sleep paralysis we cannot feel the direction in which an antagonistic muscle is pulling in a way that could guide a dreamy hallucination in a different direction in a way that’s more visceral. Were our sensory perception so solipsistic then no one is actually capable of having sex without it being virtual!
His ancient wrist band pulls his triceps forward for the pyramid hallucinations.
Alex Tries To Escape Imhotep | The Mummy Returns (2001)