Chronostasis: Your Brain’s Time Glitch

Do you have the power to stop time with your brain? Not really - but Alex Dainis explains how your brain can make the second hand on a clock appear to freeze when you look away from it quickly. This is because of a phenomenon called chronostasis: you brain blocks out the visual stimulus of movement from your eyes, and fills it in with information that it sees. This is also the reason that you don’t perceive motion blur when you look back and forth quickly! Try this trick and let us know - did it work for you?