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(Message started by: maryl on Dec 7^th, 2003, 9:53am)

Title: If you look
Post by maryl on Dec 7^th, 2003, 9:53am

If you look, you can't see me. If you see me, you cannot see anything else. I can make you walk if you can't. Sometimes I speak the truth, and sometimes I lie. If I lie, I am nearer the truth. What am I?

Title: Re: If you look
Post by tseuG on Dec 7^th, 2003, 12:19pm

I'm guessing [hide] an eye. If you look you cant see your eye. If you see your eyes (in a mirror) you cannot see anything else (but thats true for other things too). A "seeing eye" dog can help you walk if you can't. Eyes usually invert the picture before sending it to the brain (if I remember it correctly) but can speak the "truth" if we train it using lenses. We are familiar with the world we see if it "lies". [/hide]

Title: Re: If you look
Post by maryl on Dec 7^th, 2003, 12:52pm

Are your eyes open or closed?

Title: Re: If you look
Post by TenaliRaman on Dec 7^th, 2003, 4:37pm

::[hide] eyelids??
that's what i thought first but it doesn't seem to fit in with the rest of the statement
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Title: Re: If you look
Post by maryl on Dec 8^th, 2003, 4:17pm

No it isn't eyes or eyelids. And as for the next part-we could add, "I can make you fly, or just about anything else."

Title: Re: If you look
Post by tseuG on Dec 9^th, 2003, 11:05am

Is it [hide] a dream? It fits all the clues except the last. If it is, we could interpret the last clue - "If I lie, I am nearer to the truth" - like this. The fantastic things we see in dreams are manifestations of our deepest desires. In that sense, they are nearer to the truth, our true feelings, than the normal things we see in dreams. [/hide]

Title: Re: If you look
Post by maryl on Dec 9^th, 2003, 4:33pm

Yes, that's exactly it.