You Are Blind For 40 Minutes Everyday.
You are blind for 40 whole minutes everyday. It’s not that your eyes aren’t working. Your mind is actually blocking images all the time, and refusing to process them. Whenever your eyes move, your brain doesn't process what would normally be very dizzying blurry images coming from the retina. To fill in the gaps of time, your brain creates an illusion for a fraction of a second to keep us from noticing. This is called “Saccadic masking” and it keeps us from experiencing motion blur.
Your brain replaces the blurry images with static
images of your next object of focus. Whatever you
look at after moving your eyes appears to stay still
for a long period of time, because it is actually the
same image stretched for a longer period of time to
cover up the blur. This is called the “stopped-clock
illusion“, when the first second on a clock after you
turn to look at it appears to take longer than all the
other seconds.
I think this is mostly observable during reading or boring lectures you can't afford to loose concentration
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You are blind for 40 whole minutes everyday. It’s not that your eyes aren’t working. Your mind is actually blocking images all the time, and refusing to process them. Whenever your eyes move, your brain doesn't process what would normally be very dizzying blurry images coming from the retina. To fill in the gaps of time, your brain creates an illusion for a fraction of a second to keep us from noticing. This is called “Saccadic masking” and it keeps us from experiencing motion blur.
Your brain replaces the blurry images with static
images of your next object of focus. Whatever you
look at after moving your eyes appears to stay still
for a long period of time, because it is actually the
same image stretched for a longer period of time to
cover up the blur. This is called the “stopped-clock
illusion“, when the first second on a clock after you
turn to look at it appears to take longer than all the
other seconds.
I think this is mostly observable during reading or boring lectures you can't afford to loose concentration
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