Idea for improving visual perception (defragmentizing)

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Whenever I go outside I realize that everything is totally detached from each other and not a whole thing. like the sky is separate from the hills below it. or the leaves of a tree are separate instances and do not have anything to do with each other. This bothers me a lot because I can not feel my surrounding the way I should (like "cool I'm at a very nice lake and it's actually very very nice and beautiful!" I totally cant feel that!)

But the interesting thing is, when I look at nice nature PICTURES, i totally GET IT. It feels very nice, nothing is fragmented, it feels whole, it feels like one thing and not many separate things, it feels like F-ING NATURE.

I think found out why: The pictures on the computer monitor are small and do not fill the whole visual field. They just fill a small portion of the visual field. And hence it's small, my autistic brain has an easier time seeing it in one piece!

if real world is like this (picture is by me so don't worry about copyright):

A picture on the monitor is like this:



I'm wondering if I Build a device, such as a lens, or goggles, or some other kind of device that would take the real world, add a black or white or whatever border to it and deliver a picture of the real world but shrunk in a way that it would just hit the middle of my visual field, would the world (nature etc.) look real to me then?!

Please come up with Ideas PLEASE. I wanna see nature the way I saw it when I was 2 yo.

So basically you want a device that shrinks the image you see?

Buy opera glasses and look through them the other way around (through the lenses, not eyepiece).
I used to play like this when I was a kid and it was just as you request - the image of world was small and surrounded by black field. I considered it beautiful.

You can also use viewer in a simple non-digital camera(with a lensed hole used to target the photo field of view) to get similar result.

Looking through any hole might be enough too. Sometimes I make a hole with my fingers or a piece of paper and look through it for fun. Result is similar to what you describe.

This is...really, really interesting to me, reading your post and your own experiences.

My ASD partner has described that he views things as parts not wholes, 'can't see the forest for the trees' sort of thing. I have a hard time understanding this even now. Because my answer to the forest v trees idea is 'well, if I'm far away, like on a mountain looking at a forest, it's a forest, but if I'm in the forest, they are trees', and I know that is entirely because it is either small or large in my visual field.

I thought how I perceived this was downright normal. Now I'm not so sure.

At the same time I don't experience the same seriousness of problem that you have when you are out in the world, I think because I am not a visual person. Visual things rarely generate any sort of deep emotional response from me, including how people look, seems to be why I don't fawn over hunky men despite absolutely having a sexual interest in men.

I also am not sure I actually see things the way other people do, like the frequency I can see things is not quite standard. In biology classes for instance, dissecting things and looking at body parts or brain slices, I never seemed able to discern the structures that were there. It'd be like 'label this part' and I, meanwhile, can't even tell that there IS a part to label, it's all just one piece of brain to me. Also whenever I've looked at ultrasounds I am mystified by anyone being able to see anything from stuff. The dr saw that I had a hernia the other day, and I was looking at it the screen too and I saw nothing. I also am currently able to see the refresh rate on my monitor (well, not fully, but there are moving horizontal waves if I pay attention to it), but my partner cannot.

And lastly, I like outdoors because of the smells.

On second though I might be an idiot posting this here. chances are this works so great for auties that it could be patented and sold for horrendous amounts of money

The idea with binoculars is actually very good.

Edit: What about these cheap (2,37 $) fisheye lenses for Iphone? they are also very small.

3 in 1 Fisheye Lens+Wide Angle+Micro Lens