Why Your Brain Lies to You | Boring Psychology for Sleep

Right now, your brain is telling you a story, and almost none of it is quite true. Tonight the Keeper lights the lantern and opens the Mirror Wing of the Mind Palace, where every room holds one gentle way your brain fills in, smooths over and quietly rewrites the world. This is a calm, slow psychology story to fall asleep to. Twenty-one quiet rooms: the blind spot you've never seen, a stranger swapped in the middle of a conversation, memories changed by a single word, a list of sleepy words with one missing, people defending a choice they never made, the dress that broke the internet, seeing faces in clouds, and why the moon looks bigger near the horizon. There is no music, only a soft fire. The lantern is lit, and the mirrors are waiting. CHAPTERS 0:00:00 The Hook: Your Brain Is Telling You a Story 0:01:59 The Entrance to the Mirror Wing 0:04:13 Room 1: The Room of the Blind Spot 0:10:33 Room 2: The Changing Room 0:15:56 Room 3: The Room of Borrowed Words 0:19:58 Room 4: The Shopping Mall Room 0:24:55 Room 5: The Word List Room 0:31:13 Room 6: The Room of Swapped Photographs 0:35:12 Room 7: The Room of Two Halves 0:41:59 Room 8: The Stocking Shop 0:46:10 Room 9: The Room of Moving Lips 0:51:06 Room 10: The Rubber Hand Room 0:56:06 Room 11: The Room of the Dress 1:00:35 Room 12: The Room of the Chessboard Shadow 1:05:28 Room 13: The Room of Excellent Drivers 1:10:00 Room 14: The Room of I Knew It All Along 1:14:22 Room 15: The Holiday Postcard Room 1:20:13 Room 16: The Cold Water Room 1:24:43 Room 17: The Wine Cellar 1:29:07 Room 18: The Room of the Buzzing Pocket 1:34:07 Room 19: The Cloud Gallery 1:38:15 Room 20: The Dice Room 1:43:15 Room 21: The Prediction Room 1:50:39 The Last Room: The Room of the Softest Story RESEARCH MENTIONED TONIGHT Simons & Levin (1998), change blindness: https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03208840 Loftus & Palmer (1974), how one word changes a memory: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-5371(74... Loftus & Pickrell (1995), lost in the shopping mall: https://doi.org/10.3928/0048-5713-199... Roediger & McDermott (1995), remembering words never said: https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.21.... Johansson et al. (2005), choice blindness: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1111709 Gazzaniga (2000), the two halves of the brain: https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/123.7.1293 Nisbett & Wilson (1977), telling more than we can know: https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-295X.84.... McGurk & MacDonald (1976), hearing lips and seeing voices: https://doi.org/10.1038/264746a0 Botvinick & Cohen (1998), the rubber hand illusion: https://doi.org/10.1038/35784 Lafer-Sousa et al. (2015), the dress: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2015.04... Svenson (1981), are we all better drivers than average?: https://doi.org/10.1016/0001-6918(81)... Fischhoff (1975), hindsight bias: https://doi.org/10.1037/0096-1523.1.3... Mitchell et al. (1997), the rosy view: https://doi.org/10.1006/jesp.1997.1333 Kahneman et al. (1993), the peak-end rule: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.1... Plassmann et al. (2008), price and the taste of wine: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0706929105 Rothberg et al. (2010), phantom phone vibrations: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.c6914 Liu et al. (2014), seeing faces in noise: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2014... Langer (1975), the illusion of control: https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.32.... Clark (2013), the predictive brain: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X1200... Also: Edme Mariotte (1660s); Edward Adelson's checker shadow (1995); Akiyoshi Kitaoka; Roger Sperry (Nobel Prize 1981); James Deese (1959); the cocktail party effect; the moon illusion. Some of these ideas are still debated, and the story says so where it matters. This video is for relaxation and general interest only. Previously in the Palace: the ground floor halls, the East Wing, the Moon Wing, the Clock Wing and the Whispering Wing. Illustrations and narration made for Sleepy Mind Palace. #sleep #psychology #illusions