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

brain, from the moment we are awake, spends its time making assumptions on reality, interpreting it, filling its voids.

an optical illusion. This term is deceitful, because it leads us to think that our eyes are the ones deceiving us. Yet the victim of the illusion is often our brain.

Contrary to popular belief, right and wrong are rarely ever absolute, but often rather relative.

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