In the late '90s, the Wachowski brothers offered mankind two pills. Take the blue pill and everything will remain as it is. Take the red pill and you will find out how deep the rabbit hole is. You will gain the ability to fly, dodge bullets, and do anything possible.…
It is known that most adults do not have any memories of the early years of their life. A new psychological study tries to answer the question: at what age and why early childhood memories begin to fade and then disappear. Scientists have found that childhood amnesia – this is…
Experts from the United States set out to find out whether a person is capable of seeing their own hands in complete darkness and wearing a light-tight bandage over their eyes, without using their physical vision and relying only on the unconscious brain activity. Scientists tried to find out how…
Everyone has limits, for example, how fast you can run or how long you can stay without water. But what about the limitations of our five senses such as vision, which in essence are the tools we use to perceive our environment? Approximately one-quarter of the brain is involved in…
People are not always fairly judged, and there are psychological effects that cause this to happen. Are we being fair or are we being influenced? People are people, so we judge them fairly, right? Wrong. Many things we witness in other human beings cloud our judgment and cause us to make a…
Babies usually look completely helpless, but in fact, they are capable of amazing things! Here are several "superpowers" of children under the age of 3 years. 5 "Superpowers" All Babies Have 1. Water instinct At birth, the person receives a set of instincts that work well as long as the…
The reality is not as obvious and simple as we like to think. Some of the things that we accept as true and take at face value are notoriously wrong. Scientists and philosophers have made every effort to change our common perceptions of it. The 10 examples below will show…
Have you ever found yourself stuck in an unexplained feeling of disconnection and eeriness when being faced with some seemingly familiar situation or thing? You could have had jamais vu. The term jamais vu is used by psychologists and neuroscientists to define a mental effect in which a familiar situation…
