Why Your Brain Blinds You For 2 Hours Every Day
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Reality is not real. Your world is a prediction. Every sight, sound, and touch you experience is the result of calculations your brain makes before reality even reaches you. It fills in gaps, fabricates details, and even alters time itself so you feel like you’re in control. But if everything you know is an illusion… what does that say about you? What does it mean for your choices? Is there even free will?
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February 23, 2026 at 9:50 pm
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@darkwizard117
February 23, 2026 at 9:50 pm
So the brain uses tricks like in videogames to save memory?
@lolPoroa
February 23, 2026 at 9:50 pm
this video was made by a bunch of brains congratulating themselves and sharing it with other brains who nod in agreement of their greatness xd
@Octavia_Schwi
February 23, 2026 at 9:50 pm
Bro lagging so hard my brain fills the gap he lags out
@thepuppetqueen57
February 23, 2026 at 9:50 pm
I feel like this is probably insanely good for rhythm games. I mean I have basically forgotton I was playing geometry dash while having a conversation with my friend lol
@trishly6400
February 23, 2026 at 9:50 pm
I wonder how my brain felt when I'm watching him get exposed
@agentbacon001
February 23, 2026 at 9:50 pm
4:58 at this point my brain has extreme brain damage and confusion and is now irreparably worse than it was 5 mins ago.
@Fennecbutt
February 23, 2026 at 9:50 pm
All emotions are just chemicals, to trigger behaviours that we evolved (as social animals) for.
Happy – rewarded for doing a thing beneficial to the self (making tribal connections, eating, sex, etc)
Sad – punished for making a mistake (losing a friend, going hungry, not mating, etc)
Angry – identifying a threat (tripping over that thing yet again, betrayed by a tribe member, etc)
There are logical reasons for each emotion and therefore chemical/hormone released.
@Fennecbutt
February 23, 2026 at 9:50 pm
Hmmmm makes sense. Makes you realise if you've played table tennis or another sport, you're making a decision to hit the ball back but in terms of absolute positioning etc you're not conciously deciding every little movement.
And as for walking, it's like the knee jerk thing, or breathing. Our bodies have soooo many autonomous processes involved that we have no or little control over. Pretty freaking cool.
@SnakeDen-SD
February 23, 2026 at 9:50 pm
Amazing sound effects
@EggMonkey
February 23, 2026 at 9:50 pm
0:25 is that a monument valley reference?!?!
@CodeWolfArmor_37
February 23, 2026 at 9:50 pm
00:00 pikachu
@JustNooby_9531
February 23, 2026 at 9:50 pm
My brain has fried
@REDSTONENOOB.
February 23, 2026 at 9:50 pm
9:25 WHY DOES THAT DOG NOT HAVE EYES
@treefullomonkeys
February 23, 2026 at 9:50 pm
1:13 Blllllllrt..bllllllllrt
@aparna2701
February 23, 2026 at 9:50 pm
so ur telling me my brain is ai
@robertmckinney1898
February 23, 2026 at 9:50 pm
Hey, why does my brain look like it's plotting on me?
@Imbecomingacantaloupe
February 23, 2026 at 9:50 pm
From the beginning there are “blind spot tests” where you tilt your head until a dot on a grid becomes not a dot but not part of the grid because that’s what your brain thinks should be there
@Iluvquadbike
February 23, 2026 at 9:50 pm
I don't care. It just works, and that's good enough.
@JunWoo-h3g
February 23, 2026 at 9:50 pm
Then am I not real
@Pikuloplayz
February 23, 2026 at 9:50 pm
1:13 brrrrrr patapim
@AVNCYT
February 23, 2026 at 9:50 pm
0:18 IS THAT THE DRESS
@MeanerThanMyDemons
February 23, 2026 at 9:50 pm
1:12 not me playing Pokémon go
@josegames6220
February 23, 2026 at 9:50 pm
so basically my brain is chat gpt, in the perspective of an ceo
@GamingGuy-kr8kq
February 23, 2026 at 9:50 pm
BRRRRRR: the guy who voices the vids
@timblandin3840
February 23, 2026 at 9:50 pm
Who now has to blink manually.. BC OF THIS VIDEOOOOO
@MarynelleAban
February 23, 2026 at 9:50 pm
kurzgesagt machine gun 1:09
@PossiblyJammm
February 23, 2026 at 9:50 pm
MY DIRECT SHOT!!
@穎悟之人
February 23, 2026 at 9:50 pm
3:08 I like the background music. What is it?
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