switching back-and-forth between two interpretations of an image a “Gestalt” shift

‘GESTALT SWITCH’ IS A PROCESS WHEREBY SOMEONE’S PERSPECTIVE CHANGES FROM ONE THING TO ANOTHER…

You may experience this when looking at this picture. At first you see one image and then your eyes, your brain, recognize the second one and store it in your memory. Forever. The next time you look at this picture you will see both images. This not only applies to these pictures but to our life’s experience in general. We then have renewed our mind.

 The brain can switch from seeing the world from one way to a completely different way. 

We then have renewed our mind.

Whereas ‘Gestalt switch’ points to our individual experiences, once they occur on a larger scale, let’s say on the scale of nations and societies, cultures, and result in a change of behaviour, policies and the like, we tend to speak of a ‘paradigm shift’. A change in pattern of not only our individual behaviour but that of nations, organizations, societies and cultures. We then all have renewed our minds…

PARADIGM SHIFT: EXAMPLE FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE