We never stop dreaming

[beavis]

There are many optical illusions that fool most people because of the ways the visual parts of our minds work. Here's an audio illusion:

Be in the shower and hearing a loud fan blowing, while an alarm clock at some random time starts buzzing in another room so you can barely hear it, go dry your hands and turn it off quickly then get back in the shower before your brain forgets what it sounds like in active memory, continue hearing the water and loud fan so loud you can't hear if the alarm clock is still buzzing or not, and the audio illusion (at least as I experienced it) is you'll still hear a very quiet buzzing of the alarm clock, and it will get louder or quieter depending on how much you think about it.

Remember that next time you think you know how the world works, on a small or large scale.


Here's a summary of how our senses work:

The visual part of brains works similar to the audio part of brains.

The visual part is 3 dimensional: left/right, up/down, and time for detecting moving edges and surfaces and objects. left/right (and up/down?) can become dizzy by spinning in that direction then starting to spin faster or slower. It appears what you see continues to spin while you don't.

The audio part is 2 dimensional: higher/lower frequency, and dizzy time. The time dimension in audio normally works the same as the left/right visual dimension when dizzy because it keeps going forward instead of staying balanced.

The time dimension of what we think we see/hear is a dizzy dimension in hearing and seeing.

There is also a 3d grid which allows us to do rotations of objects in our minds and imagine combinations of objects in 3d, and these many dimensional grids in our minds connect to eachother, like to align a prediction of what you'll hear depending on what you see, translating it between pixels your eyes see to 3d locations to echos and sound patterns to a 2d moving graph of frequencies (which your ears have little hairs in that spiral shaped thing to detect) then back on the opposite path and many other paths.