MicroFactzzz#0034 · 🧬 Human Glitch
Your Eyes Blink Dozens of Times an Hour — and You've Never Once Seen It Happen
During every blink, your brain actively suppresses vision, so the world never seems to "cut out" — even though your eyes are physically closed.
The average person blinks over a dozen times a minute, and each blink briefly covers the eyes completely.
If the brain simply recorded whatever the eyes see, the world would flicker to black over a dozen times a minute. It doesn't.
The brain actively suppresses visual processing during a blink and "stitches" the image from before and after into one continuous, seamless scene — a process called blink suppression.
The side effect: you feel like you're seeing the world continuously and without interruption, even though your eyes are actually closed for a pretty substantial chunk of your day, all added up.
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