By Vivian Crawford
Mind-Bending
By Vivian Crawford
Here are some fun psychology facts you probably didn’t know!
Your brain has an average of 50,000 to 70,000 thoughts per day (25 fun facts).
Sweating can temporarily shrink the brain (25).
If your brain was a computer, it could hold 2.5 million gigabytes of information.
The average person’s attention span is shorter than that of a goldfish.
It is psychologically proven that falling in love only takes 4 minutes.
There is a reason that you thought you felt your phone vibrate when you really had no notifications. “This condition is called the Phantom Vibration Syndrome, and a whopping 68% of the population suffers from it” (Psychology).
Our minds trick us into thinking that tougher foods are healthier. For example, granola, nuts, and some cereals.
Skittles have different colors and smells, but they all taste exactly the same.
Here’s a fun psychology trick to play on your friends!
How to almost always win rock-paper-scissors: Ask someone a random question before playing (for example, “Have you ever eaten a banana whole?”), and this will throw them off, causing them to almost always throw scissors out.
Optical Illusions are tricky pictures that mess with your mind. Here are a few famous ones:
This is called The Cafe Wall Illusion and even though your mind convinces you otherwise, all of the horizontal lines are parallel.
This optical illusion is called Spinning Seeds and all of the seeds are staying still, but to you, they look like they are moving.
This is called boring figure, and there are two faces in it: a young lady looking away, and an older lady.
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