Subject
You go blind every time you move your eyes, your memory rewrites itself on replay, and you have never once felt your own touch. Every one of them measured.
7 essays
PerceptionYou have a blind spot — not in space, like the one every textbook shows you, but in time. Lock onto one thing, and for roughly half a second afterward a second thing can hit your eye, be fully processed by your brain — its meaning extracted — and then be discarded before you are…
PerceptionA man who is genuinely blind — not blindfolded, blind — is asked to walk down a corridor cluttered with boxes and chairs. He weaves around every one and reaches the end untouched, then insists the hallway was empty and he saw nothing.
PerceptionLook at your left eye in a mirror, then your right eye, back and forth. You will never catch your eyes moving — even though someone watching you sees them flick clearly.
PerceptionBring to mind a vivid memory — a childhood birthday, a first kiss, a day you're certain of. It plays like a video, frame by frame, the way it really was.
PerceptionThink about the last thing you really wanted. You got it — and for a while it was wonderful.
PerceptionLook at anything. It feels like a flawless, effortless window onto the world.
