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How Your Brain Predicts Your Reality & How To Be Calm and Why Should Be

Something You Should Know

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The Effect of Phantom Phone Vibrations on Reality

In the case where you properly experience the world, there's a balancing act between the prediction and the sensory information. So as you listen to me speak in these words, you're probably hearing gaps between the words. But the gaps aren't real. The gaps are just kind of added in because that's the way your brain finds it easiest to predict the auditory stream is to insert the gaps where they belong in languages that you understand. And so doctors, for example, feel these phantom phone vibrations quite a lot.

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