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From the Vault: The Invention of the Mirror, Part 2

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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The Psychedelic Blindfold

A 2004 study found that subjects who were blindfolded for days at a time started to have elaborate visual hallucinations. This raised interesting questions about what sight really is, Rob says. What if you are seeing things in your brain and those things are not whole cloth fabrications but roughly accurate perceptions of real objects around you?

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