The World Is Backwards

This morning my son was barely awake long enough to give me my good morning kiss when he said very matter-of-factly,


"You know the world is backwards. Right?"


"No, I didn't know that", I replied. "Why do you say the world is backward?"


"My health book at school says the eye sees everything the opposite of what it is."

He leads me over to the livingroom window. "See that tree? It is really over there." He is pointing to a bare section of our neighbors yard. "That beauty mark on your cheek is really on your other cheeck"

With no coffee in my system this is starting to make sense.

I wasn't exactly a stellar science student. I spent most of my time in science class studying my eye. Or to be more exact, the inside of my eyelids.

I found myself looking about at the possessions in my home and wondering where they really were. Am I sitting in the livingroom or the diningroom? Is my keyboard backward? When I type a "t" am I really typing an "u"?

By now my son had moved on to other activities, like playing PS2 backward.

After a quick Google search I found the FULL explanation of how an eye works.I should have known better. My son is an expert at getting half the facts correct.

The human eye sees images upside down and backward. Your brain is sent the image and then turns it the way it really is.

Thank goodness this has been straightened out!

I need to pee and for a minute considered sticking my head in the toilet.