Your Brain Is Playing Tricks On You

human beings tend to blindly trust their perception, to the point of considering it to be shared by everyone.

Without thinking, does the black figure seem to be facing us, or does it have its back to us? Are you above it, or below? You’re hesitating…

Now look at the image below: the individual clearly seems to be facing us, their elbows leant on the barrier, and they’re located above you. And now that you have this image in mind, look at the first version of the image again. The interpretation you make of it will copy the scenario that image (a) led you to see, and now the black figure appears to be facing you at a low-angle shot

brain, which shelters our knowledge, operates through estimates. The outcome is that our knowledge of things and of the world is always relative.

something unreal has just happened. This is what we call “magic”.

perception goes through our senses first.

“We don’t see the world as it is, but rather as we are

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There’s a blind spot in our field of vision, which corresponds to the place by which the optical nerve exits the retina towards the brain. We could assume there should be a “hole” in our field of vision where the light isn’t received by the retina. However, in everyday life, our field of vision is whole because we have two eyes. But if we were one-eyed, or if we simply closed one eye, this would be altogether different.

the world constantly reflects a multitude of signals, and we reduce their ambiguity by choosing what we want to see

the world constantly reflects a multitude of signals, and we reduce their ambiguity by choosing what we want to see.