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Everyone around us is busy dusting our eyes. and manipulate our poor consciousness. The fight for the main powder box the brain broke out between marketers, politicians, magicians, advertisers. We learned to take it for granted, and take off another pasta from your ears just to to admire its exquisite form. However, there is someone able to control your mind, distract it and maliciously deceive. Someone you trust one hundred percent and don’t expect setups. Someone acting from within.
It is your own brain. Most likely he will try to kill you in the process of reading so that his secrets remain secrets, so that try to distract him with something.
Here is the first of his tricks:
1. Blindness to change
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You will never notice a very obvious change in the object, looked at a minute ago. What does it mean?
For example, you admire a photograph of Justin Bieber. Oh well, don’t admire. You look contemptuously. Here for a few seconds you something distracted. Then your look returned to the photograph.
If in these few seconds Justin gets green jacket and sunglasses, you will not notice this change. So our brain is arranged.
If you, not believing our slander, again turn away for a short while and. returning to Justin, triumphantly poke all the same green jacket – your brain scores 2-0. Cause now Justin is in the background pony and rainbow.
The study of this phenomenon began back in the seventies psychologist George McConkey. If you are still worried about of his defeat, you can console yourself with the fact that McConkey examples of illustrations posted directly on the same page. AND people reading his works still couldn’t immediately notice the difference between picture A and picture B.
Why is he so with us ?!
The phenomenon of blindness to change is often associated with another Brain-rig: blindness of inattention. If your brain will be process absolutely all the details of the picture coming into it, you you’ll simply go mad. It’s like on the eve of the session, only constantly and a million times worse. Therefore the brain prudently chooses only information that is supposedly valuable and focuses on it. Ponies and rainbows are swept away for impracticality. Brain with pleasure will lie to you that they were there from the very beginning, if only you would not went in cycles.
Sometimes it’s overkill
You can’t even imagine how often the brain turns off your attention to details. Scientists (undoubtedly in secret collaboration with brains) had fun under the guise of a scientific experiment as follows way: at the counter in the office they put the person who talked with subjects – students who came to get a job. The man explained how to fill out the form, where to take it, what to do further. At a certain moment, another person, all this time hiding under the counter, replaced the first. He asked a few questions, and the student, as if nothing had happened, answered them, not Noticing any change. And this despite the fact that the second person he looked different, had a different hairstyle and was dressed in another clothes!
2. Masking intermittent eye movements
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The essence of this trick is that about forty minutes a day each man is completely blind, although he does not notice at all.
You can conduct an almost scientific experiment proving this. Quick, look towards the kitchen! In this split second when your your eyes darted from the computer to the kitchen and back – you were completely are blind. And, of course, they did not notice this.
Why is he so with us ?!
You get seasick even when watching Pirates Of the Caribbean? “When the picture on the screen shakes and rotates, starts to stir you up? This is because your brain doesn’t like fast image changes, and generally against sudden movements. But the movement your eyes even faster than changing the picture on the screen. Take a look once again towards the kitchen. After all, did not you feel dizzy? And all from that the brain simply blocks the blurry image that we, theoretically, must see in the process of eye movement.
Another look towards the kitchen. In fact, not one, and not argue. At least three to four additional eye movements – this is the order of our brain. And yes, all these blurry “frames” he just excludes from perception. So that the world doesn’t seem shown to us on skype with slow internet.
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Sometimes it’s overkill
According to the most conservative estimates, all of the above does not mean that other than forty minutes of total blindness per day. And the brain is masterly disguises her, convincingly insisting that there is no blackness in the moment you looked from the monitor to the landscape outside the window, did not have.
3. Proprioperception
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Imagine that your brain has a google map of your body, full, colorful, tri-de and in real time. But at the same time sudden bouts of cartographic cretinism happen to him.
In other words, proprioception is the ability of the brain to always know exactly where your limbs are currently located relative to the rest of the body, provided that they are still growing from of this body. In general, nothing strange and sinister: this wonderful ability helps us not to get past our mouths a sausage sandwich while eyes are busy reading the news in Facebook.
Why is he with us like that ?!
This time he was not on purpose at all. Only if suddenly confused, for example, under the influence of alcohol. What happens if proprioception does not work, anyone who has passed the test for sobriety and missed the index finger past the nose.
Sometimes it’s overkill
Another group of scientists for scientific, of course, purposes, forced people believe that their nose has grown by half a meter. They baffled proprioception of subjects with electrical stimulation of the biceps and triceps, ordering to advance to bring a finger to the tip of the nose. And about miracles of science, – the subjects experienced the complete illusion that the nose growing rapidly in length!
4. Cryptomnesia
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Sometimes this trick is called “unconscious plagiarism”: your brain steals other people’s ideas, slipping them to you under the guise of your own.
Your brain is not so good at everything, no matter what it takes. Among his weaknesses – remembering where exactly this or that came from idea. The main thing is the idea, and its source is the tenth matter. So the situation seen by our brain, which is convinced that copyright is a thing of third degree survival.
There are not so many high-profile examples, but it’s known that George Harrison paid $ 600,000 for a song that was sincerely considered his own. Surely there are people who are convinced that they have come the plot of a wonderful fairy tale about a boy invited to school wizards and opposing evil for seven volumes. And someone wants to make a film about a little man with hairy legs, which will save everyone by dropping a magic ring into the mouth of a volcano.
And someone confuses dreams with reality, this is also crypto-nesmnesia.
Why is he so with us ?!
As already mentioned, the origin of the idea or plot for survival is not important, and when we strongly try to recall where do we have in our head wonderful lines about a lonely white sail, the irritated brain defines itself as the author. That is, his the owner.
Sometimes it’s overkill
Studies have shown that cryptomnesia works most often in those cases when the real author and the unfortunate unconscious plagiarist of the same sex. And in general, the more they are similar. The more the chances of such an unconscious borrowing. So if suddenly someone will appear who claims to have invented a wonderful story about Frankenstein is more than likely to be a woman.
5. Subconscious behavior
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Mystics call this foresight. In fact, this is just another trick of our unscrupulous brain.
But nevertheless, this can be called a prediction, given that in In most cases, the wang from our brain is useless, and it’s wrong he is quite common. However, the brain often believes that it can so-and-so, and so-and-so should happen. AND begins to act, without even consulting with you, as considers it necessary. That is, we do many things even before aware that they need to be done.
Why is he doing this to us?
If not for this trick, we would be the most awkward creatures on this planet.
Our brain is an interesting thing, capable of many things; we possess intelligence and imagination, but most of our simple human abilities are pretty useless in case unexpected danger. Therefore, the brain, in addition to the ability to think, manage our body and fool us, very carefully stores the important life experience, on the basis of which it makes certain predictions at critical moments.
The experience itself may long be forgotten, you were burned in childhood on milk and all your conscious life you blow into the water. Even in the cold. Brain reinsured? Just fooling your head again.
Sometimes it’s overkill
Scientists (where without them) recently discovered a curious thing: if connect your brain to a special scanner and ask you a question, decision-making, then the light bulb associated with the responsible after making a decision, a part of the brain lights up for a few seconds before you consciously decide anything. In other words, if in the morning you decide not to go to work, rest assured that the idea tell the sick you gave the brain before your awakening.
If there was a scanner that reads specific information from of your brain, its owner could with a handicap in a few seconds to predict what decision you will make and how to answer that or another question.
And this fact makes us seriously think about the existence of free will.
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