Hey, welcome back to the Personality Hacker Podcast. My name is Jill Mark Witt.

And I'm Antonia Dodge.

In our program, Your Personality, the Owners Manual.

The program starts out with a conversation around a natural phenomenon called

cicatic masking. Now what cicatic masking is it's a phenomenon that happens with your eyesight where your brain

forces you to be effectively blind for anywhere between 30 minutes and two hours a

day. Now the reason why this happens is because

your mind of course is interpreting everything that's coming in through your eyes and

there are certain visual components that are a little complicated for the

brain to make sense of it gives opportunities for some cross wiring and so

instead of having to figure that out every time, the brain just goes, well, I'm just

not going to take that piece of information in.

I'm just going to block it out, basically.

But it will happen so quickly, and it will happen so fast that the person who is actually looking at this thing won't register that they have just been temporarily blind for about a second.

This phenomenon happens in moments like

when you look in the mirror and you switch back and forth between eyes, right? Like

you're looking at yourself in the mirror and you're looking at your

right eye and now both your eyes switch to looking at

your left eye and back and forth. Well you can't watch the shift occur. You can see

yourself looking at your left eye and then all of a sudden you see yourself looking

at the right eye, but you can't actually

observe the shift happen. And that's an example of cicadic masking. That's an example of

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