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Brain Games
2011 · TV series · documentary · 60 min episodes · 8 seasons
Get ready to have your mind messed with! "Brain Games" is a groundbreaking series that uses interactive experiments, misdirection and tricks to demonstrate how our brains create the illusion of seamless reality through our memory, through our sensory perception, and how we focus our attention.
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From what I'm reading (OK, maybe I just watched it in a Brain Games episode) the inflexibility of the old brain is not as set as previously believed (you can teach an old dog new tricks).
My wife and I started very divided. Blue/black for me and white/gold for her. A few hours later she only sees blue/black.
The interesting/funny thing is we just started watching Brain Games on Netflix and the first episode was about colors and perception. They very visibly demonstrate this with the color gray. https://www.youtube.com/v/BnPbT3wgfG8
For the most part this all made sense to me, but it also seemed to contradict experiences I've had. For example, whenever I have work days that consist of the same type of meaningless coding it seems to drag on forever, but give me an interesting or complex (or new) problem that I can really sink my teeth into and the day goes by in a flash.
Also, National Geographic's show Brain Games did an episode about our perception of time. It had a lot of this info in it; it even showed the experiment of displaying familiar pictures with the occasional unfamiliar picture mixed in. http://braingames.nationalgeographic.com/episode/2/
"Brain Games"
Thanks for that. Here's a link for anyone else interested that I just found:
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/brain-games/episodes/pay-attention/video/
There's a show on NATGEO called "Brain Games"[1] which featured Robbins on an episode. Normally I don't watch anything on the so-called "educational" channels because they're rarely that and often just thinly-veiled reality shows. However, I actually really enjoyed this show. It made me realize how unaware and easily manipulated we are, even when we know we're being tested or tricked.
1 - http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/brain-games/