3 (or more) spooky ways to trick your brain this Halloween
01 November, 2018
If you want some thrills this Halloween, you should try tricking yourself for a change. In this Spotlight, we look at some spooky experiments that'll trick the brain and ask intriguing questions about consciousness and perception.
In Act One, Scene Five of William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, the main character, after meeting his father's ghost, remarks to his best friend, "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,/Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
Hamlet is referring to the world being filled with spooky mysteries that we may have a hard time even imagining.
Perhaps one of the most mysterious things on earth is, in fact, the human brain.
How does our consciousness work? Can we rely on our senses, or do they — and the brain — often trick us?
In this Spotlight, we look at a series of spooky experiments that shed some light on how our brains work, and which might make you question your own senses.
So, if you are in the mood to test the limits of your perception this Halloween, why not try to trick your own brain by replicating one of the experiments below?