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Interesting: your visual cortex gets switched off every time you move your eyes
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Another thread made me read more about saccadic masking.
Every time you move your eyes (and they are moving all the time), your brain switches off the processing of retinal images. When the movement stops, the processing starts again. During that time you're effectively blind. It's called saccadic masking.
If this didn't happen, you'd see blurred images every time your eyes move.
Our field of vision seems to be continuous due to a phenomenom known as transsaccadic memory. The brain takes in the image obtained just before the saccadic mask sets in, and the image it gets when the mask is lifted. It then integrates these two images to fill in the gap.
Quoting: Dr. Moran Yes. Reality is blinking on-and-off at such speed that it looks like a stable, consistent unified field (of vision and matter), but our brains are projecting via the eyes dual images that appear to us as one without any gap (proven in the double-slit experiment, too). The non-locality of consciousness results in the brain simulating everything it 'sees' like from a data-stream and then it integrates them into one 'blinkered' reality.
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