The Human Brain

The word "yawn" can actually cause people to yawn. It induces the human brain to actually start yawning. They say that yawning, although can be caused by weariness or lack of brain stimulation, it can also be caused by simply thinking about yawning. I just got reminded of this fact while reading the papers about the economy, where they mentioned something about a "yawning gap". So have you yawned yet after seeing so many yawns?



No?



Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn Yawn



Now you might not have yawned still, if you forced yourself not to (I think, because I yawned a numerous times just writing them), but now is the word yawn starting to look strange and foreign? I honestly do not know what causes that, but I know it has something to do with the human eye and brain being too damn inapt. Yes apparently they are so incapable that when a person reads a word, you are actually picking up the front letter and the back letter, and sort of "guessing" the words in between. For example, given the word, let's say umbrella.



UMBRELLA, the eyes sort of captures something like:



UM____LLA



Now, any douchebag can see that word is going to be umbrella. Nothing wheel of fortune about that. Then, the brain, being a brain and all, fills in the missing words, to make it:



UMBRELLA



Tadah. Well, before another example, how many Fs can you find in the following sentence?



FINISHED FLIES ARE THE RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS








2? 3?



Count again.



The answer is 6. What the brain does is it actually omits the word OF, since it's not that significant to it for some reason, and "assumes" its presence instead. Which sort of brings me back to the point a made few days ago. The human brain thinks it's so smart. No, HUMANS think that their so smart. When in fact, a subtle test like the above optical illusion can fool them all.




Stop overestimating yourselves you ape-descendant imbeciles.