24 You see detail even if it doesn’t exist.
Looking around a room, we can believe that everything is in sharp focus, but in fact what the eye takes in is often blurry and our brain fills in the detail. In one study, described by Medical Daily, researchers “watched participants’ eyes with a camera capable of recording 1,000 images per second. As their eyes made quick movements, known as saccades, the researchers quickly changed objects in their field of view. As these objects changed the participants were asked to describe the them as they stood in their peripheral vision—they found that the descriptions were largely based on previous notions of what they could be, kind of like a template for the object from our memory, confirming our brains trickery every time we look around the room.”
