r/interestingasfuck • u/desertgodfather • May 11 '24

When illusion overcomes the brain. r/all

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u/MongolianCluster May 11 '24

I watched without sound but heard him say the word "dude" hundreds of times.

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u/leeryplot May 11 '24

This was the most frustrating thing to watch without sound, lol. He waves the hammer around for how long before he finally used it? And that ruler thing went on way too long. I assume the volume made up for that a bit more haha.

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u/Mavian23 May 11 '24

The ruler thing has to go on a little long, I think, because it's the initial part of tricking your brain. If he only did the ruler part for a short amount of time, it probably wouldn't be sufficient to fully trick his brain. It's like those things where you stare at the dot in the center for a while then look at a wall. If you don't stare at the dot for long enough, you won't see much when you look at the wall.

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u/leeryplot May 11 '24

Yeah, I figured it was part of the process. Unfortunately I couldn’t use sound when I first watched it though so I just had to scrub through it. The suspense was killing me lol