Your brain is lying to you
Optical tricks, memory glitches and the colours that don't really exist.
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The Game That Rewires Your Sleeping Brain
Playing Tetris for too long causes your brain to keep playing the game even after you close your eyes.
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Why you can't tickle yourself
Your brain literally subtracts your own touch from existence.
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The colour that doesn't exist (but your brain sees)
Magenta is not on the rainbow. Your visual cortex invented it.
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Your memory rewrites itself every time you remember
The more you recall something, the less accurate it gets.
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Your Brain is Hallucinating Most of What You See
Your eyes have a physical hole in their field of vision, but your brain lies to you about it.
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Your eyes decide what you hear
When your eyes see a mouth move one way but your ears hear a different sound, your brain invents a third sound to fix the conflict.
The Game That Rewires Your Sleeping Brain
Playing Tetris for too long causes your brain to keep playing the game even after you close your eyes.
Your Brain is Hallucinating Most of What You See
Your eyes have a physical hole in their field of vision, but your brain lies to you about it.
Why you can't tickle yourself
Your brain literally subtracts your own touch from existence.
Your memory rewrites itself every time you remember
The more you recall something, the less accurate it gets.
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