Redditors describe a very interesting or odd psychological phenomena or fact?

The truth is that our brain works in mysterious ways and experts still have a lot to figure out about our brain. There are many psychological phenomena that we have some kind of knowledge about and yet new facts and odd things are discovered on a daily basis. We encounter a lot of things on our day to day activities that leave us completely perplexed. Redditors share their knowledge about some of those weird occurrences that can be attributed to a psychological phenomena.

r/jakeyb01 Blindsight-blind people who have an awareness of their surroundings. Their brains still process data from their eyes at a certain level, they just can’t consciously see anything.

r/BillFroman I’m not sure how true this is but a woman was diagnosed through voices she had heard telling her exactly where to go and where the tumor was. If anything its a good read.

r/weddinglion Your brain kind of defrags irrelevant information. If you go on a long, uneventful drive, you might only remember the first and last ten minutes (or something unusual in between), but your brain deems it pointless.

r/TheBassMeister The Frequency Illusion/Baader-Meinhof phenomenon. The frequency illusion is when you start noticing something for the first time and suddenly it appears that this something suddenly crops up everywhere. In reality this is not true. A good example is a (not currently trending) word you heard for the first time. Suddenly you read and hear this word all the time.

r/Satures I had a customer who “knew” that her entire family had been replaced by actors. Those had gone through extensive surgery and training to mimic their body language, way of speaking and such while all memories of the relative they replaced had been transferred to them with a chip in the arm. She told me she was a nurse and had witnessed this in other cases. “It’s really crazy! This actor lives in the house of your relative, looks like him, speaks like him, knows everything that happened 20 years ago. But this isn’t your relative!” She was 100% convinced of this, not the smallest doubt. Her main concern was what happened to her real family. Only years later I learnt this is called Capgras delusion. I hope she got help, and that she could ‘reunite’ with her family.

r/illit3 People can be made to remember things that never happened. This is a large part of what caused the “satanic panic”

r/puppy_amuser Alice in Wonderland Syndrome. When I was a little girl lying in bed I would sometimes feel like I was gigantic, like my body was taking up the entire room, or microscopically small. Winds up this is an actual thing that happens to a fairly large amount of people, although normally just a few fleeting instances in their lifetime.

r/kingbane2 placebo effect is the one that is the strangest to me. it’s so wild, like fake thing that causes a real effect. what’s even more wild is the placebo effect works on animals, AND it works on humans when you TELL them they’re getting a placebo and show them it’s a placebo. it’s so weird.

r/Warpmind

I don’t recall the scientific term with any certainty, but Doorway Syndrome. Basically, you think of one thing, then walk through a doorway, and it’s gone, filed away into matters relevant to the room you just left. This is why you often forget why you just walked into the kitchen.

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