Closure

I read the comic essay last week on accident and reading it a second time gave me a better understanding. Like the "guy" said, closure is in all of our lives and happens every single day. Much of the time we don't even realize we are closing something.

I love psychology so this for me was pretty fascinating, because closure is what our mind does automatically when something is incomplete. A good example, I thought, was when the word CLOSURE was copied vertically about six or seven times and excluding the top version, all the rest were broken and disconnected, but because it resembled the word, your mind just fills in the blanks to complete the word. Another good example for me was the supposed murder plot. There was a man running away from another man with an ax raised and ready to swing. In the next frame, we see the top of the city and the night sky with the cry, "EEYAAA," or something of that nature. I hadn't even realized that I had created a scene of the man with the ax cutting off the other's head as he bellowed "eeyaa." But then the author said that was because of closure, it really got me thinking. I asked myself why I hadn't thought of any other scenarios, the ax could have hit the other man in any place or simply missed, or maybe hadn't even been swung at all, but until he explained why I did that, the scenario I made was the only way he could have died. Pretty crazy stuff, eh?

I hope I worded that fine haha, and you're not all asking yourselves what the hell I was trying to talk about ^_~