Previews + Extras
All Is Not as It Seems
S1 E1 - 1m 7s
David explains how the brain is tricked by the checker shadow illusion. What we see doesn’t necessarily match on to the reality beyond our senses.
Episode 1 | Messing with Reality
S1 E1 - 4m 37s
David Eagleman experiences a new visual reality – with nauseating consequences. He experiences the enormous effort his brain goes to construct the world around him.
Episode 1 | Brain City
S1 E1 - 1m 53s
In the same way that the economy of a city doesn’t take place in one district, there is no single spot in the brain that works in isolation. The brain is a vast interconnected network of areas that are in constant communication with each other.
Episode 1 | Our Perception of Reality
S1 E1 - 2m 18s
David invites subjects to recreate an experiment that demonstrates how much our brains leave out of our perception of reality. One brief look is enough for the brain to model a picture of the situation but just how detailed it that model?
Episode 1 | Alternate Realities: Synesthesia
S1 E1 - 2m 34s
Hannah describes her synesthesia, a reminder that person to person, and brain to brain, our experiences of reality can be quite different.
Episode 1 | Why Time Seems to Slow When We Are in Extremes
S1 E1 - 4m 17s
Why does time seem to slow down when we are in life-threatening situations? Wingsuit pilot Jeb Corliss describes his agonizing experience of time distortion, David explains what is happening in the brain.
Episode 1 | How the Brain Creates Reality
S1 E1 - 2m 42s
Electrochemical signals travel through dense networks of neurons. The brain scans through this non-stop incoming stream of information in search for patterns which becomes your reality.
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