How the moon stirs tension between the conscious and subconscious minds

Re:How the moon stirs tension between the conscious and subc... by mtVessel on Thursday November 20, 2014 @11:30PM (#8639816)

Thanks, I was wondering about that, too. That diagram helps explain it. But I still don't understand circle 3. According to perspective rules, shouldn't the moon appear much, much smaller, since it's so far away?

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Re:How the moon stirs tension between the conscious and subc... by scott_s on Friday November 21, 2014 @11:11AM (#8641851)

Circle 3 is saying that's how big the moon would look like if it was actually proportionally sized to the cloud, and actually "in the sky" as opposed to be 238,000 miles away.

Basically, the argument here is that we judge the size of things in the sky under the assumption that they are in the sky. But the moon is not; it does not follow the perspective rules of things that are actually close to us. The figure is saying that when we see situation 1, our brain assumes situation 3 will hold.

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