Stanford psychologist Jeremy Bailenson, who studies how immersive environments reshape perception, has shown that extended ...

Reality as we know it is not what it seems. We live in a projection, a creation of our consciousness rather than a physical world that exists independently. This perspective may sound radical, but ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: Studies show that your brain doesn’t perceive the world exactly ...

The Best Illusion of the Year contest offers researchers, and participants, an opportunity to explore the gaps and limits of human perception. By Katrina Miller Take a look at this video of a waiting ...

The aide said that guys like me were “in what we call the reality-based community,” which he defined as people who “believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality. That ...