Do you know that a constant gaze into someone's eyes or your own face in the mirror for more than a minute changes consciousness and hallucinations begin?
This is scientifically proven, but you can check it yourself.
The strange face illusion remains a scientific enigma and was discovered by vision researcher Giovanni Caputo of the University of Urbino in Italy.
The effects are even stranger when a person stares at their face in a mirror in a dimly lit room for several minutes.
As many as 90% of those who participated in the experiments saw huge distortions of their own faces or monstrous creatures, archetypal faces, faces of relatives and deceased, as well as animals. It should be added that all 50 participants in the experiment were adults.
For some reason, people lost touch with reality and experienced this strange facial illusion.
At the end of a 10-minute mirror observation experiment, participants were asked to write what he or she saw in the mirror. Descriptions varied greatly from person to person and included: deformities of one's own face; parent's face; unknown person; fantastic and monstrous creatures.
Caputo admits that it is unknown what is behind this strange phenomenon. One possible explanation is that it is “a consequence of returning to“reality”after going into a dissociative state caused by a lack of sensory stimulation.
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When we look at the center point for an extended period, the features in the periphery begin to fade away, something known as the Troxler disappearance. It is possible, as Mind Hacks reports, that “dramatic effects can be caused by a combination of underlying visual distortions that affect the facial interpretation system.
The visual system begins to adapt after we receive the same information over time (which is why you can experience visual changes if you look at anything for a long time), but we also have a system that interprets faces very easily.
This is why we can “see” faces in clouds, trees, or even from two points and a line. The brain is always looking for faces, and it is likely that we have a special face detection system that allows us to recognize people whose faces are actually only marginally different in statistical terms from other people."
MIKHAILOV ALEXEY