The Dragon's Stare, I
It is almost impossible to envisage or re-create in pictorial terms the physical reality of the dragon stare. Are we to take a hint from the frequent references to mirrors as a technique for defence against the stare that some form of light-reflection took place in the pupil of the huge eye? Or is it more likely that such stories are as near as oral tradition could come to conveying the sense of helpless self-awareness experienced by the victim? Modern research into the separate functions of the lobes of the brain suggests that the stare may have functioned by introducing an element of discontinuity into the victim's brain by supplying feed-back to one lobe out of phase to that supplied by the other lobe. If so, the concept of a magical mirror is as close as one can come to the actuality.
Peter Dickenson, The Flight of Dragons
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