Can You Beat the Mind-Boggling Troxler Effect ….92% Failed
Your task: Stare at the image, focus on the center, and draw your attention to it for a few moments without blinking.
As you continued to stare at the image, it should have appeared as if it began to fade away. This is called the Troxler Effect, and it was discovered in 1804 by physician Ignaz Paul Vital Troxler. Here, the neurons in your nervous system stop responding to stimulation.
How Does It Help You?
This is important in everyday life to keep you from getting over stimulated.
When you’re in an environment that contains constant stimuli, your brain cancels it out. It adapts to steady, unchanging stimuli: the environment you’re in will become faded and blurry. That’s why you’re so used to piles of mess on your desk, the constant humming of the AC unit, or even the sight of your own nose in the middle of your face!
Did you know you’re able to see it at all times, but your brain cancels it out so as to not interrupt your vision?
The Troxler effect is what keeps you from overstimulation. It is what allows you to focus on the important things. As you can infer from the examples above, this fading out of the brain happens over time. But when you look in the mirror without moving your eyes at all, the blurring happens in a matter of seconds. Your surroundings will become blurry until you blink, and then everything will reset.
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