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Your brain is lying to you
Optical tricks, memory glitches and the colours that don't really exist.
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Mind & Illusions
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.
Mind & Illusions
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.
Mind & Illusions
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.
Mind & Illusions
Why you can't tickle yourself
Your brain literally subtracts your own touch from existence.
Mind & Illusions
The colour that doesn't exist (but your brain sees)
Magenta is not on the rainbow. Your visual cortex invented it.
Mind & Illusions
Your memory rewrites itself every time you remember
The more you recall something, the less accurate it gets.