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Your Brain May Be Switching Between Two Versions of Reality 15 Times a Second
How grounded do you feel in the present moment? It may be a little less than you think.
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Your brain may be flickering between the visual information you consciously perceive and other visual data that never reaches awareness, switching about 15 times each second. This rapid alternation suggests that our sense of being grounded in the present moment is less stable than it appears.
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