Our mind has a way of playing tricks on us. In this collection of videos, what you see won’t meet up with what really happened. Your eyes will say one thing, but nature will have said something else entirely. Our eyes aren’t the only thing deceiving us — it’s our minds that are at fault. For various reasons, we have evolved a capacity for self-deception, an inability to properly assess the world for what it is. This deception isn’t limited to magic tricks that entertain us. Our feelings, our beliefs, our states of mind are often built on a very flimsy fabric of make-believe, conjecture, and blind faith.
If your mind can convince you that a rubber hand actually belongs to your body, as scientists have done in one the videos below, then it’s reasonable to assume that your emotions themselves can be twisted in ways which separate you from reality. I’m providing you with this list of videos to offer you some food for thought. What illusions are you trapped by, what deceptions have you accepted? We are all prisoners to one set of lies or another — being able to suss out our captors can help us assert at least a limited degree of control over our lives.
1. Ten Optical Illusions in Two Minutes
- The Posts of 2008
- In 2009, I resolve to be…
- A diet of happy thoughts
- Misery Around The Web
- Daily meditation stops wandering thoughts
- Quackery, Pseudoscience, and You.
- Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)
- Personal Stories and Interviews, a round-up
- The Power of Posture
- Beating Seasonal Affective Disorder
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