Movie critics Mark Kermode and Jack Howard just introduced me to the Shepard Tone, "that seems to continually ascend or descend in pitch, yet which ultimately gets no higher or lower." Like the engine of the Batmobile, and that tension-ratcheting music in "Dunkirk."

Cool enough, right? Then Wikipedia adds this: "Different listeners may perceive the same pattern as being either ascending or descending, depending on their language…"

#Music #Movies #Illusions #Language

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard_tone

illusions—
so commonplace
they're not

#haiku
#senryu
#illusions
#perception

Et subitement, le regard s'élargit.

https://notesandsilence.com/2026/01/31/1er-mai-2022/

#conscience #expérience #zen #silence #illusions #realite

What correlates with #illusions of causality?

Despite seeing enough treatments and outcomes to calculate a #medicine's effect, people overestimated its effectiveness.

That illusion of causality correlated more with #reasoning preferences than effort.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2026.104045

Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.
-- Joseph Conrad

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JosephConrad #Illusions

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunset #Florida

A giant back step. How thinking that security by hiding could be a security solution and live happily. 😎

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/nhs-goes-to-war-against-open-source/

#security #hiding #magic #illusions #madness

"The Stepping Feet Illusion

Each of these buses is proceeding smoothly along the striped street. Yet each seems to be varying its speed dramatically."

https://www.futilitycloset.com/2026/04/28/the-stepping-feet-illusion/

#Illusions

Strobe Illusion

Wow! Ich habe gerade halluziniert mit Strobe Illusion:
https://strobe.cool/

@neave

#neave #strobe #illusions #IllusionArt #fun