| | One sunny day, I stepped into an outhouse. When the door slammed shut
behind me, it was so dark that I could not see anything. As my eyes began to
adjust, I noticed some colors flickering on the wall. When I leaned forward to
investigate, the colors disappeared. As I leaned back, they reappeared.
Turning to the opposite wall, I blinked as a beam of light hit my eye.
A hole in the wall was letting in a small amount of light, and this was
creating blue, brown and green colors on the opposite wall. I moved closer to
the colors—while not obstructing the beam—and saw an upside down image of the
forest and sky outside. The trees were even swaying in the breeze.
Coincidentally, I had a moment to think about this phenomenon.
A dark chamber that is penetrated by a small amount of light will cause an
image of the outside to be created on the inside. It was as if I had stepped
into a camera. A camera is a dark box that light enters when the button is
pressed. If I had had a big roll of film with me, I could have made a picture
of the trees for my photo album.
Also, it was as if I had stepped into an eye. Your eye is a dark chamber
that can be penetrated by a small amount of light when you raise your eyelid.
The image that is created in your eye travels to your brain, which gives you
your sight and a memory of what you have seen.
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