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> it simply doesn't happen for me at all. FWIW, I have noticed the effect many times, in particular with the second hand of analogue clocks.
by jstanley 6y ago
> it simply doesn't happen for me at all.
FWIW, I have noticed the effect many times, in particular with the second hand of analogue clocks.
- karmakaze 6y agoYes, but never while you're listening--it's not a hack by your vision system, it's your perception system. You're basically hallucinating all the time, mostly to synthesize what's 'out there'.
- kqr 6y agoEven before I knew this was a thing, I know I've looked at my watch and for a second being confused about why it seemed broken when it was working just minutes ago, simply because the second hand didn't appear to move in time.
- proactivesvcs 6y agoI had assumed that this was part of my watches' mechanisms that self-calibrated but it never occurred to me that I just happened to notice this self-calibration so often! It's interesting that I casually came up with a complex explanation and didn't even try to critically examine whether it was plausible or not.