Look at your own eyes in a mirror and flick them side to side. You will never catch them moving. Your brain switches vision off for a few milliseconds during each jump and stitches the gap so smoothly that you're briefly blind a fraction of every second — and never once notice.

$Look at your own eyes in a mirror and flick them side to side. You will never catch them moving. Your brain switches vision off for a few milliseconds during each jump and stitches the gap so smoothly that you're briefly blind a fraction of every second — and never once notice.$

Look at your own eyes in a mirror and flick them side to side. You will never catch them moving. Your brain switches vision off for a few milliseconds during each jump and stitches the gap so smoothly that you're briefly blind a fraction of every second — and never once notice. Send this and watch your friend try it in the mirror for ten minutes.

EXPLAINED (ACCURACY-CHECKED)

Saccadic masking/suppression: visual perception is suppressed during rapid eye movements (saccades), which is why you cannot observe your own saccades in a mirror even though others can see them.

Established: saccadic suppression/masking — perception is inhibited during saccades; the mirror demonstration is a classic illustration. Standard vision-neuroscience teaching.

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