When you look at yourself in a funhouse mirror, you might see your face looking all wobbly or your body stretched out like a rubber band. This is called distortion. The mirror changes how you really look, making things appear different or twisted. It’s like when you take a picture and someone moves really fast, they might look all blurry because the camera couldn’t catch them clearly. That’s another kind of distortion.
Think about when you talk into a fan, and your voice sounds all funny and wavy. The fan is changing the sound of your voice, making it sound different from how it usually does. This is also distortion, but with sound instead of pictures. It’s like when you play with clay and squish it into a different shape. The clay is still the same, but it looks different because you’ve changed its shape.
Distortion can happen with pictures, sounds, and even words. If someone tells a story but changes parts of it, the story gets distorted. It’s like playing the game of telephone, where the message at the end is all mixed up from the original. Distortion is about things not staying the same, but getting changed or stretched in some way.