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r/woahdude • u/based_lunatic • Feb 07 '25
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This illusion is called the flashed face distortion effect
292 u/QueenofNorms Feb 07 '25 Very cool! And scientists have no idea what's causing it from a neurological perspective 370 u/reischmeckt Feb 07 '25 maybe it's an evolutionary quirk where anything in periphery view could be a potential threat and this is our brains way of trying to shift our focus onto that potentially dangerous thing 2 u/light24bulbs Feb 08 '25 That's kind of how it feels. "Scary thing over there, look at it and make sure!"
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Very cool! And scientists have no idea what's causing it from a neurological perspective
370 u/reischmeckt Feb 07 '25 maybe it's an evolutionary quirk where anything in periphery view could be a potential threat and this is our brains way of trying to shift our focus onto that potentially dangerous thing 2 u/light24bulbs Feb 08 '25 That's kind of how it feels. "Scary thing over there, look at it and make sure!"
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maybe it's an evolutionary quirk where anything in periphery view could be a potential threat and this is our brains way of trying to shift our focus onto that potentially dangerous thing
2 u/light24bulbs Feb 08 '25 That's kind of how it feels. "Scary thing over there, look at it and make sure!"
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That's kind of how it feels. "Scary thing over there, look at it and make sure!"
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u/xixtoo Feb 07 '25
This illusion is called the flashed face distortion effect