How Do Magicians Trick Our Sight Perception To Create

Illusions?

Sight Perception

Mark Changizi said ... Illusions

Occur When Our Brains
Attempt To Perceive The Future,
And Those Perceptions Dont
Match Reality

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Are Missing Beau Lotto

Introduction To Perception
In Real Life, when you are moving forward, its
not just the shape of objects that changes,
Variables Such as the angular size (how
much of your visual field the object takes
up), speed and contrast between the object
and background will change your perception.
For Example when you speed up in a car the
trees and surroundings start to get distorted
and sometimes change in shape. The Trees
And buildings dont stretch but it is an image
of our perception.

How Do They Do It

Magic tricks often work by misdirection, The Magician draws

the spectators attention away from the secret method
that makes a trick work.
For Example With Criss Angels Performance Of Him Walking
On Water The Camera Angles Used Gives Him An Illusion Of
Him Walking On Water. Where In fact he is walking on plexiglass.
Another Great Example is in the TED Talk when the
performer asked you to join your hands together and
interlock your fingers then he pointed out that someone was
doing it wrong, he helped the person fix their position and
then changed his original position to create a new one
without anyone noticing. He could then maneuver his hands
to a upright position. While everyone else who Fell for the
trick had their hands in an unmoveable position.

Fun Facts

As Human Beings We Are Subconsciously aware of

everything going on but;
We Are Bombarded With 400 Million Bits Of Information Per

Second,
We Have 100 billion Brain cells each capable of thousands of
connection each,
This Gives Us A Trillion Interactions Per Second,
We Pay Attention To About 2 thousand of these inputs,
About 7 Can Make It Into Immediate Memory,
Of Which We Can Take Action On 1.

Because we are bombarded with so much information

and we have so limited bandwidth of perception, we
have what is called selective perception.