The Craziest Things Our Brains Do Without Us Knowing
Sometimes it’s neccesary to remind ourselves just how incredibly awesome the human body is. Sure, we spend plenty of time agonizing over the way we look on the outside, going to incredible lengths to ensure that we are appealing cosmetically, but do we really appreciate enough just what a masterpiece of evolutionary design our species is?
Twitter user foone has put together an informative example of just one of the awesome functions our brains are capable of. It’s a handy reminder that no matter what flaws we might find within ourselves, we are all actually insanely advanced biological computers, the product of a long and complex evolutionary process that is just stunningly inctricate and adaptable.
Scroll down below to check it out for yourself, and let us know what you think in the comments! (Cover image: Thomas Claveirole)
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Share on FacebookDoes it? I missed that part, if so. We think we look wrong in photos because the majority of the time we see ourselves, it's backward in a mirror and that is what forms our self-image.
Load More Replies...That's super interesting. Humans with normal vision are actually blind for a total of about 40 minutes every day, when you add up all the moments of the saccadic masking. The trick with the L and R was very cool. I couldn't believe the R disappeared.
I couldn't believe the SIZE of the blind spot when I did the trick ! I could see the letter dissappear and return, and the distance between the two made me freak out !
Load More Replies...My first thought were exactly about "Blindsight" when the saccades came up :) Great, great book, quite difficult to read though.
The bit about colour reminds me of something that happened to me a few years ago. I was playing with play dough with my young son and there were two colours - pink and orange. We had the pink, the orange was on a shelf behind me. My son doesn't like to use multiple colours at the same time so we were making all pink fruit. He suggested we make an orange so I turned to the shelf, pointed at the orange play dough and said 'why don't we use the orange (colour) just this one time.' He looked at me like I had two heads and said 'mummy, we ARE using the orange!' I looked back at the shelf and sure enough it was the pink pot, although I am 100 percent certain it was orange when I first looked. I then looked at the play dough we were playing with - it was clearly pink. I blinked, then when I opened my eyes it was orange. I actually dropped it in surprise - to me it literally changed colour in my hands when I blinked. I figured my eyes thought the original pot was pink at first and ran with it
Wow!! That was intense! and truly amazing! I had no idea my eyes have been lying to me my whole life! Interesting stuff.
2 things. One, I am a flat eyer. I don't believe in the round eye. I cannot see my eyes with my own eyes there for I refuse to believe my eyes are round, but instead assume they are flat no matter how much science is found to prove they are round. Second, even though I believe in the flat eye theory... I still rather enjoyed what seemed like a drunk rant on Twitter about have neat our brain is. Their mind was blown, and I loved the excitement they projected while talking about the weird things our eyes have problems with, but our brain just takes care of.
Here's one I've noticed: because I grew up reading English as my native language, which travels left to right, I can smoothly move my eyes left to right, without tracking a moving object, at will (with some effort). I cannot do the opposite (move my eyes smoothly right to left unless tracking an object).
Ofc you can! im cross-eyed and can see one of my eyes move with the other.
I wonder if that's why, when watching something on TV, the actors' eyes shift backwards and forwards. You can actually see it happening!
Of course you can see other people's eyes moving. Also, this is a habit some people have when talking to other people: when making eye contact, they keep looking from one eye to the other, back and forth. It is sometimes done intentionally to make them look manic.
Load More Replies...Knowledge is good. Exercise your brain with information and maybe it wont be so worn out.
Load More Replies...Does it? I missed that part, if so. We think we look wrong in photos because the majority of the time we see ourselves, it's backward in a mirror and that is what forms our self-image.
Load More Replies...That's super interesting. Humans with normal vision are actually blind for a total of about 40 minutes every day, when you add up all the moments of the saccadic masking. The trick with the L and R was very cool. I couldn't believe the R disappeared.
I couldn't believe the SIZE of the blind spot when I did the trick ! I could see the letter dissappear and return, and the distance between the two made me freak out !
Load More Replies...My first thought were exactly about "Blindsight" when the saccades came up :) Great, great book, quite difficult to read though.
The bit about colour reminds me of something that happened to me a few years ago. I was playing with play dough with my young son and there were two colours - pink and orange. We had the pink, the orange was on a shelf behind me. My son doesn't like to use multiple colours at the same time so we were making all pink fruit. He suggested we make an orange so I turned to the shelf, pointed at the orange play dough and said 'why don't we use the orange (colour) just this one time.' He looked at me like I had two heads and said 'mummy, we ARE using the orange!' I looked back at the shelf and sure enough it was the pink pot, although I am 100 percent certain it was orange when I first looked. I then looked at the play dough we were playing with - it was clearly pink. I blinked, then when I opened my eyes it was orange. I actually dropped it in surprise - to me it literally changed colour in my hands when I blinked. I figured my eyes thought the original pot was pink at first and ran with it
Wow!! That was intense! and truly amazing! I had no idea my eyes have been lying to me my whole life! Interesting stuff.
2 things. One, I am a flat eyer. I don't believe in the round eye. I cannot see my eyes with my own eyes there for I refuse to believe my eyes are round, but instead assume they are flat no matter how much science is found to prove they are round. Second, even though I believe in the flat eye theory... I still rather enjoyed what seemed like a drunk rant on Twitter about have neat our brain is. Their mind was blown, and I loved the excitement they projected while talking about the weird things our eyes have problems with, but our brain just takes care of.
Here's one I've noticed: because I grew up reading English as my native language, which travels left to right, I can smoothly move my eyes left to right, without tracking a moving object, at will (with some effort). I cannot do the opposite (move my eyes smoothly right to left unless tracking an object).
Ofc you can! im cross-eyed and can see one of my eyes move with the other.
I wonder if that's why, when watching something on TV, the actors' eyes shift backwards and forwards. You can actually see it happening!
Of course you can see other people's eyes moving. Also, this is a habit some people have when talking to other people: when making eye contact, they keep looking from one eye to the other, back and forth. It is sometimes done intentionally to make them look manic.
Load More Replies...Knowledge is good. Exercise your brain with information and maybe it wont be so worn out.
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