Cognitive Illusions: When Your Brain Fools You

How Your Brain Lies to You About Reality — Cognitive Illusions Explored Your brain isn't

a camera recording reality—it's a storyteller making stuff up! Every second, it takes shortcuts,

fills gaps, and edits your experience without asking. That "deja vu" feeling? Your memory center

glitching. Seeing faces in clouds? Pattern recognition gone wild.

Even your memories get rewritten each time you recall them! Optical illusions

prove your visual system makes assumptions about light and shadow. Your brain also

creates a "blind spot" where your optic nerve connects, but smoothly paints over it so you never

notice. So when you're absolutely sure about something, remember: your brain might be confidently