Posted on 12/22/2018 2:55:39 PM PST by bgill
It's extremely easy to trick our brains — and we are oddly delighted by it. But there's also a practical side to illusions, learning about where the brain gets confused can help us understand how it works to organize information in the first place. Sometimes, a few splashes of color arranged in a very specific way can scream "mistake" to the brain. In response, brain cells will begin to fire to "correct" our vision … and the scene will disappear. Other times, an image that looks like a duck can look like a rabbit if you really try to see it. But the brain won't let you see both the rabbit and the duck at the exact same time, you have to tell it a story first. And it's not only vision that tricks us — the same recording of a word can sound like "Yanny" to some people and "Laurel" to others. What you see or hear, is not always what's happening. Here are some of Live Science's favorite illusions from 2018.
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Time Travel - what video? Arrow - of course, it's the angle Colors - ack, still saw the colors Duck - no whiskers, no nose, broken weird ears, no rabbit Star Wars - nope, both going in same direction Laurel - but weirdly computer generated so distorted and we were given suggestive words Young lady - usually but easy to see the old
Time Travel - what video?
Arrow - of course, it's the angle
Colors - ack, still saw the colors
Duck - no whiskers, no nose, broken weird ears, no rabbit
Star Wars - nope, both going in same direction
Laurel - but weirdly computer generated so distorted and we were given suggestive words
Young lady - usually but easy to see the old
I used to sometimes see a magician called “The Amazing Randi”.
He was also a skeptic who exposed a lot of supernatural fakery. He did mention that he once saw a magician in Finland who did several tricks that he could not explain. He said the guy totally amazed him.
The illusion that always gets me is that Republicans and Democrats vote on the same day. But in reality, it seems that votes from Republicans are counted on Tuesday evening while those from Democrats are counted early Wednesday morning. :-/
That Quacks are reputable
I remember him. He proved the spoon bending was fake.
ROFL!!
Snowflakes with a full range of hearing need to go and I need to get my hearing tested!
It’s a wabbit. ...If it’s wabbit season.
It’s a TerRabUcken...fantastic roasted for Christmas dinner.
Hmmmmmm, I wonder what it means if one can see the duck and the rabbit at the same time?
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