sbrettt
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This thread is devoted to fun facts about the human brain. Apparently when you move your eyes you're blind. Your brain temporarily shuts down visual info to eliminate the motion blur from you moving your eyes. Can you imagine if it didn't? Also, our brains are very talented at adapting to unexpected changes. There was an experiment where a scientist was his own guinea pig. I can't think of his name, and I would appreciate it if someone linked me the details if you happened to know who the guy was. He wore a monocle that caused visual info to enter his brain upside down. So when he stretched his arm forward it came from the top of his vision. After just a week, I think (might have been longer or less long), his brain had rewired itself to take in visual info upside down so that the visual info coming through the monocle ended up being interpreted right side up so he could see normally again. After he removed the monocle he saw things upside down! His brain had to re-rewire itself to normality from the experiment. Pretty incredible if you ask me. Post some fun facts about our brains!