Another great summer day comes to an end. I did the raid today with my fledgling year 2 hunter. Got him up to 320 without my nightstalker. [i]Thank you to my awesome fire team for bearing with me, [b]you guys rock![/b] [/i]. Key moments in the raid are always the best: when you start sisters, praying you dont get torn. And later, when Oryx teleports you into the shade. Both moments throw you against your will into a forced illusion. Being torn or forced into the shade reminds me how much illusion can be part of daily life, down to basic observation. Its a fact of life, and I think Bungie does a great job of capturing it. [b]One obvious example from real life comes to mind: [i]the illusion of a curved horizon.[/i] Look at the picture above. [i]You may not believe it, but both those lines are perfectly straight and very much parallel[/i]. This illusion is a big reason why the round earth myth has gained acceptance in society; people rightfully followed their intuitive observations of the horizon, but to wrong conclusions.[/b] Dont forget that your eye is a lens that can be distorted, just like a camera. [url=http://img11.deviantart.net/819e/i/2010/190/1/b/tilted_horizon_by_blueecofreak.jpg]When you look at this picture of the horizon you know it was produced by a camera.[/url] Of course the world is not "tilted"! But it goes to show how lenses can play tricks on what we think we see. [u][b]The world is flat[/b][/u], but the horizon sometimes appears curved. 'This is nothing more than the consequence of seeing the world through eyes: two small yet amazing lens.