When those subjects were asked in detail about their dental history, some did mention a bad dental experience in the past with anesthetic needles, and that this sensation reminded them of this disturbing perception.
At this point, this is about flaws of procedures — some possibly illegal, all very disturbing — and problems of perception.
Yet, like the many other attempts to use objective principles or even mathematical formulas to define beauty, this software program raises what psychologists, philosophers and feminists say are complex, even disturbing, questions about the perception of beauty and a beauty ideal.
As a chronic alcoholic and habitual heavy drug user, I had spent the intervening years intermittently suffering from horrendous hallucinations, fits, and disturbing distortions in my perception of reality during brief periods of withdrawal.
Sometimes these bizarre perceptions were so disturbing that the newly sighted preferred to sit in the dark with their eyes closed.
Some of the roughly 500 people who attended the Police Department's presentation on Tuesday said that such disturbing messages could highlight the perception of New York as a target for terrorists and underline the need for law enforcement's continued vigilance.
Disturbed people and disturbing images.
But television also transmitted disturbing images that damaged the public perception of a sport still struggling for recognition as it prepares to expand to 30 teams.
An additional disturbing finding is the difference in perception of patients and their surgeons regarding the success of the procedure, with the view of surgeons often being more sanguine.
Secondly, the groundbreaking survey work on resident wellbeing by a psychiatry colleague revealed disturbing results regarding resident stress and resident perceptions of harassment and intimidation [ 1, 9].
