Although we need our eyes to see, all that our eyes perceive is impressions of light. Our eyes account for only 10% of our perception of vision. People who have 20/20 vision, with or without corrective lenses differ widely in their visual intelligence.

Easily and effectively you can learn to see more by, well, seeing more. See people, places and things that are new to you.

We see through our memories. The more visual memories we have that are of different people, places and things, the more we are able to perceive.

Science has discovered that 90% of vision happens in our brains. Our brains decode the impressions of light sent by our eyes into meaningful data. We experience the brain’s translation of this data as seeing.

People can be blind, or partially blind when specific areas of the brain that relate to specific types of visual recognition, such as faces, is damaged. We are all also relatively blind to what is radically new to us.

There is a documented story of a European medical doctor who was working with a tribe in Africa over a century ago during the colonial period. He became good friends with the chief who was very intelligent and they spent many off hours together. The doctor was introduced to the tribal culture, which included sculpture and other visual artistic expression, but not painting.

They returned to the show, where painting by painting the doctor pointed out what was in the painting until the chief actually had enough new visual memories of paintings depicting people, places and things, that he could see them on his own. Then the chief became delighted with the art and new experience!

The above story explains how we gain greater visual intelligence. Being able to discern images that are comprised of paint, ink or pixels is something normally sighted people in the industrialized world learn to do by the time they are toddlers. But the average toddler, no matter how intelligent, cannot see everything in a detailed painting, such as a Rembrandt, that an adult can. The toddler lacks the many visual memories and encounters with works of art that are necessary to view the subtleties of Rembrandt’s work

This is why young children especially enjoy books where the illustrations are simple and brightly colored. Bright, basic colors are the first ones we learn to see. Yet it is important to introduce and point out more complex shades and color variations to children as the focus it helps them acquire new visual memories and understandings.

Travel, meeting new people who are not of our own familiar racial groups, seeing art and going to movies that include new and different visual information, such as people, places and things created by special effects allows us to increase our visual memories. This means we can recognize. This increases our functional visual intelligence.

So, take the time to break out of your daily visual rut of the places you go, and the environments and people you see. The more different people, places and things you learn to see, the more you will be able to see. Increase your visual intelligence!

One of the implications of this discovery is that a person’s vision and even life can be changed and even transformed by adding new visual information to the brain.

The eyes transmit impressions of light to the brain. That accounts for ten percent (10%) of the vision process. The brain then decodes these received impressions by comparing them to may previously stored visual memories. This occurs so quickly that it seems to be instantaneous.

A person whose life experience has included being visually exposed to many different people, places and things has a larger visual reference, and thus functional visual intelligence. We actually better see, and notice more… and then more when we have prior visual references for a person place or thing.

In the Twentieth Century advertisers learned that a product needed rand recognition to become successful. Many campaigns for new products were and are based on creating this recognition rather than acquiring sales, as sales follow recognition.

Although it was understood that sales follow recognition of a product the fuller recognition of the fact that people are almost blind to new products was not understood. The brain needs visual memories of a people place or thing to decode and actually see more of it. The more memories, the better a person can see a product.

This understanding can also be used to understand social relationships and how they are fostered and maintained. The more a person sees and relates to someone, the closer one feels, even if that person is not actually appreciated or liked! The more an actor or politician is seen the better the chances their films and shows will be watched or that they will be elected.

The brain can also be trained to see more by purposefully looking at new people, places or things. This can be done in person or through images in printed or online media. While viewing the latest toothpaste may not be the most brain enhancing, studies have shown that viewing people from different cultures, who one is not usually exposed to helps one learn to see and actually distinguish their faces more readily. This is looking for the sake of looking, just as one does when one visits and art museum or galleries.

Although art lovers, and certainly patrons and collectors tend to be on a higher economic basis, and are thus thought to be more intelligent, which came first the chicken or egg conundrum begins to apply. Clearly people who regularly visit art museums, galleries and look at people. Places or things are busy increasing their visual intelligence and ability.

Art can also be purposefully used to expand or enhance one’s ability to see more, thus increasing visual and actual intelligence. Actual intelligence is improved as memories, including visual ones are actual things. The more different memories one has the more one actually physically expands one’s brain. The more different kinds of visual memories one has the greater the chance that the brain can decode a new impression of a person, place or thing, making one more functionally intelligent.

The more different kinds of visual memories one has the greater the chance that the brain can decode a new impression of a person, place or thing, making one more functionally intelligent. Post Conceptual UnGraven Image are is unique as it reveals the energy that the eyes see but the brain has few, if any visual memories of to use. Seeing this art one begins to build visual memories that are eventually used by the brain, creating an enhanced vision. There is even a book about this, The Art of Seeing The Divine , which includes a series of Exercise/Experiences created to help the reader easily and quickly create more energy seeing visual memories.

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Apparently when one has enough visual memories of energy the brain begins to decode prior memories of emotion, including unwanted or negative emotion that pop up, usually unconsciously, during the ongoing visual decoding process as simply more energy. The viewer experiences fewer feelings of unwanted anger, fear, hurt, etc., which were previously triggered during the visual decoding process, but are now decoded as just more visual energy. This does not mean the feelings are resolved, it means that during the day they are not constantly restimulated.

This new scientific understanding about the brain’s dominant role in vision also explains why people who read more are better readers, and can be applied readily to other aspects of education. A person can apply it when attempting to learn anything new, because knowing that at first one needs to keep looking, building visual memories, means greater tolerance and achievement through the natural learning process. Visual repetition can be a key to success.