Right now, there is a hole in your vision, a literal blind spot where your optic nerve connects to your eye.
There are no light sensors there. Just a gap.
But you don’t see a black hole, do you? You see a complete picture.
That’s because your brain predicts what should be there.
It uses the colors and patterns around the missing space to fill it in automatically.
So next time you feel absolutely certain about a stressful thought…
ask yourself: Is this real data or is my brain filling in the blanks?
You got this.
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