What is it about?
A visual illusion you can try on yourself. Look in the mirror and cross your eyes. With some practice, you can create a reflection of yourself with 3 eyes. Stare at your "third" eye (in the middle) and find that the rest of you disappears!
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Why is it important?
This is an easy way to view an illusion known to psychologists as "binocular rivalry" - the apparent disappearance of objects seen by only 1 eye. Not only that, you can see your own "third-eye" a concept that has been around in Eastern spiritual mythology for thousands of years...
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This effect was discovered almost by accident while looking in the mirror one day. I wonder if this illusion has been discovered many times throughout history? If so, we'd never heard about it!
Regan Gallagher
Monash University
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This page is a summary of: Third-eye Rivalry, September 2019, Center for Open Science,
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/9p6da.
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