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Until you pointed this out, I hadn’t noticed it, but it has indeed always been there. I wonder what other sensory anomalies we experience without realising ?

• ThrustVectoring 9y ago
  This is why buddhist monks talk about reality vibrating - the continuity of reality is an illusion constructed by the brain, while the actual perceptions generated are a series of discrete experiences. Also, eye saccades are a great example of this. If you look at your own eyes in the mirror and switch between looking at your left and right eyes, you don't see your eyes move. If you watch someone else do this, you do.
  • martin-adams 9y ago
    Yes, it is also why when you look suddenly at a clock it appears to be stopped. This explains it in more detail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNBTLbw1_2Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNBTLbw1_2Q
    • dingo_bat 9y ago
      This thing perplexed me to no end when I was younger. I literally used to sit around for hours after school, trying to catch the wall clock stopped.
  • Namrog84 9y ago
    The monk comment on reality thing vibrating is really fascinating. Sometimes when it's quiet and I'm laying down. I can feel vibrations, for many years I attributed them to subtle deep earthquakes or even perhaps the house or something shifting. But after having felt a similar vibration in many states. Many floors up or on outside ground. It's all quite similar. Although I've never had any formal meditation training, I have read and practiced it a lot before. I wonder if I'm feeling reality vibrating or perhaps at least in the sense the monks meant.