Living a Few Milliseconds Behind

Your brain tricks you every day without you noticing. Everything you see, hear,

or feel reaches you with a tiny delay, and your brain pieces it together to make

sense of the world. You think you react instantly, but in reality, you are a few milliseconds

behind everything. This happens with movements, sounds, even your own thoughts.

Scientists say understanding how your brain works can help you act more consciously, and sometimes it

even explains why you feel confused or surprised. Every decision you think you make instantly

is actually processed a tiny fraction of a second later, and yet, your brain convinces

you that it happened immediately. You are literally living just a little in the past,