Mind-blowing video explains reason why your brain 'blinds' you for two hours every single day
The YouTube channel explained the science behind our vision
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There is a mind-blowing video that explains the reason why your brain ‘blinds’ you for two hours every single day.
The clip details how much of your vision is actually out of focus and it’s up to the brain to ‘construct your reality’.
In a video uploaded to YouTube by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell, it explains how your mind sees the world.
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The clip explained: “You’re not living in this very moment that you are experiencing and nothing is like it seems. It turns out your brain constructs your reality as you are experiencing it, it edits your memories as they happen, it lives in totally different time spheres and tells you a story about the world that feels real.”
According to the channel, this is because we only see a ‘thumbnail sized area’ of our visual field in high resolution, with the rest of it being out of focus.
Therefore, it’s up to our brains to piece together the rest of what we’re looking at and it has a pretty neat trick for how to do it.
The video continued: “Each second your eyes make three to four sudden jerky movements, saccades, of 50 milliseconds, focusing from one point to another.
“Scanning your environment to get different sharp images that your brain then edits together.
“During a saccade your brain shuts down your vision so you don’t see a wild motion blur.
“This means that each day, for around 2 hours, you're completely blind.”
The channel went on to say: “Instead your brain fills this time with its best guesses of what happened during the blackness. But it does way more – it turns out that you’re not really
experiencing time correctly.”
The YouTube channel said: “Your brain takes a moment to process and then invents a reality, a present moment that’s not real.
“What you feel is ‘now’ is in fact a selectively edited version of the past.”
Viewers of the video took to the YouTube comment section to share their reactions to the information.
One user wrote: “Ngl I find this quite comforting. I think that the idea of my conscious self being just one part of an interconnected being, that has other parts that work constantly to support the whole makes me feel less lonely. It’s nice to think of one’s brain as a friend that has been there for you and helps you the best it can your whole life.”
And another added: “I like that I can now say I’m in the past, present, and future whenever someone says I got to live in the now. Got’em!”