What You See Isn't Real. This is Why

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[@azrieljale]

My brain automatically filters out Raid:Shadow Legends. Human mind is indeed incredible and efficient machine.

[@ChickenPermissionOG]

It is not efficient to filter out visual or audio information you need to be able to see the or hear the predator.

[@expertunity6100]

He is too powerful too be kept alive

[@aceyoshy6]

_youre not playing raid shadow legends?_

[@azrieljale]

Raid: Shadow Legends Wants to *KNOW MY LOCATION* D:

[@sebotrp]

My mind doesn't filter that because i have Sponsor Blocker to do that for me.

[@ProductBasement]

"I used to be a man trapped inside a woman's body, but then my mom gave birth to me" is my favorite joke

[@tme98]

no, it is my favorite joke!!

[@ntsempty1209]

"but then I pulled out"

[@dukeon]

🤣

[@tamtheham3440]

I was gonna like the original comment although it currently has 69.... Would be a shame to ruin that.

[@daathgnosis2098]

'man'

[@BennyProductions]

how could you NOT see that gorilla

[@dangurtler7177]

Because you are concentrating on counting the passes made by the players in white shirts. It is really a simple explanation.

[@shionlevi1561]

I didnt see the gorilla lmao. Only after he points at it that i realise theres a gorilla.

[@raggispaggis2456]

What are you doing here benny? (Love your content)

[@justinloudermilk5693]

Did you see him change shirts?

[@weribus3569]

Too much focus on counting on white shirted people. But I didn't focus on it because it's literally countable without focus. So I saw the gorilla-dressed person right after he/she enters.

[@dattroll2019]

he should've very subtly changed his clothing everytime the camera panned back to him, until at the very end he was in a gorilla costume

[@owlthepirate5997]

YES!!! That would've been epic!!

[@xyrenaxypot9100]

but this ain't tiktok hahaha

[@jordanlee2009]

​@@xyrenaxypot9100whats tiktok ? My brain must filter out that unimportant information ?

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

3:35 Here's a timestamp if you want to miss Raid Shadow Legends

[@cathiproctor6877]

Luffy Chinjah nah i’m way more

[@td601]

Thanks daddy, nohomo of course.

[@Azrael_Equinox]

Absolute hero.

[@rajanbhateja6844]

Thank you

[@Synthentic]

Do yourselves a favor and download the Sponserblock extension.

[@1kuhny]

"But first today's sponsor, Rai.." GOD DAMNNIT

[@thebeststooge]

1600 USD is what they pay each content creator who pushes it each time so I wish I could push it.

[@darthsawlex8257]

@@thebeststooge Do you mean every time someone clicks the link or every video they put the ad in. Because I've seen KZbinrs of much smaller size get offered a lot more.

[@thechurchofsupersampling]

I thought better of you dude, cmon, you dishonour the number 42

[@__-eu7wu]

they had to bro. susan demonetizing everything they had no choice but to t get $4k from a scam game to sponsor them

[@Durzo1259]

@@__-eu7wu "Susan"?

[@Musikur]

You didn't mention the one that always seems the most obvious to me: when you write a long letter or other piece of writing, you have to read it extremely carefully multiple times, and preferably get someone else to edit it for you. I remember when my sister and I wrote a book as teenagers, we re-read the entire manuscript around 10 times, and still, after printing a few copies of it I still found numerous errors where we'd used completely incorrect words or punctuation. Our brains knew the story backwards, and were so conditioned to what they expected to find, that they just skipped over the obvious errors, even when we were actively and deliberately editing it

[@navret1707]

One of the best ways to proofread a document is to read it backwards. I’ve used this trick for years.

[@wesleytrott6397]

This explains why a husband doesn't always notice when their spouse does something different with their hair or makeup.

[@Aka-Spade]

I'm a simple man: I hear "Raid Shadow Legends", I immediately go to the comments to see all the people pointing it out.

[@sethhermann8847]

i guess i'm also a simple man

[@Omar_E11]

Lmao Same

[@cremebrulee2484]

Time to double tap the right of the screen a phew times

[@dirtybongwater5751]

I immediately begin mashing the L key

[@squamman631]

Why do people hate on raid? I’ve seen it everywhere but I know almost nothing about it? I’m

[@Fredtown]

Didn’t even count, still missed the gorilla.

[@Joe_Potts]

Same i even backed the video up to actually count then i was like "what the fuck..?" XD

[@pulsey2001]

What gorilla!

[@keahibailey2646]

@@pulsey2001 gorilla?

[@br2891]

I only saw it cause I gave up counting lol

[@GeeorgeBeeedle]

lmao

[@milesrudduck]

50% of people see a mustache on you, the rest of us don’t. .

[@johnbarnes5342]

Referring to the finding ice cream in the ice cream tub reference: In many parts of America, When you open a tub of butter at your grandmas house, it could be anything from butter to salsa, spaghetti, beans, cake, corn, chicken, pudding, etc. So...

[@Deepthought-42]

When I open an ice cream tub I expect to see nails, screws and nuts and bolts.

[@sunrazor2622]

Here's how I noticed the gorilla: As soon as they started passing the ball, I was convinced there was no way in hell I could keep track of it all. So I just hopelessly stared at the center of the group. It was then that a black figure walked into the center of my hopeless focus. Then I was like thinking, "What the hell is a gorilla doing there? I thought we're supposed to be counting white shirts."

[@thatguy7155]

Same lol and it feels weird that nobody notice it

[@davisensui8144]

That’s why it said roughly half because when others are being told to do something their initial instinct usually is “there must be something else”

[@fkssjs]

I noticed it too

[@Project153]

lol at "I thought we were suppose to be counting white shirts."

[@notmychairnotmyproblem]

YUP

[@boynotgenius]

My brain: Oh looks it’s a gorilla ignore the counting!

[@wherewindstakeme5460]

same, I was so distracted by the gorilla

[@iamsheel]

I didn't count to begin with. I know there most be something else hence the title.

[@duudsuufd]

I didn't start counting because i don't like basketball. I watched the girls but still saw the gorilla.

[@Amghannam]

Now yes, but the first time I saw this video I completely didn't see the gorilla.

[@gusty7153]

i didnt even count till i missed a few and then the gorilla showed up and distracted me further

[@akakscase]

So I am a professional driver, and it took months or retraining my brain to eliminate barely half of the blind spots it creates while driving. The absolute hardest one to break is the change from the norm habit. I have seen buses drive in front of trains because "there is never a train there." As a professional driver I HAVE to see these changes. I have to notice what 99% of other drivers miss or ignore. This video does a great job of explaining why it is people who have retrained themselves to see these thing find other driver so incompetent or annoying.

[@shawntailor5485]

The things I learned while driving tactical fuel and ammo have stuck with me for life .

[@dr.stronk9857]

People who didn’t count at the start and just saw the gorilla: that form of jitsu does not work on me

[@sirlee5264]

I didn't count but it took me about 5 seconds to notice it in the middle.

[@HellsJerome87]

The only thing more pandemic than COVID-19 is Raid : Shadow Legends sponsorships.

[@Okurka.]

Even more than NordVPN.

[@Kyleplaysgames567]

Even more than Blue Apron

[@danielriley7380]

Simon Whistler refuses to do R:SL sponsorships. Then again, he has about 10 channels each with dozens of sponsors.

[@brandonsanford4525]

Perfect comment

[@vapin9068]

Auto piloting while driving is scary as all hell when you realise what you've just done.

[@mourgos1234]

Τhats where there is a second front seat on cars, and drivers are advised to drive within speed limits. While i was doing my driving training one day i missed a whored red light because my tutor had told me to watch our for something else.

[@kamgrant]

We will soon adapt to the new technology. It was the same when planes could fly themselves the majority of the way.

[@tibfulv]

Hehe, only the first time it happens. I found myself executing perfect turns to places I wasn't actually going, because that was were my home was. After the first one I just go "autopilot" and turn back, lol.

[@dustinjames1268]

The even scarier part is when you realize just how much of your life you spend on autopilot, not even experiencing your own life

[@nvstewart]

@@dustinjames1268 And it's even scarier riding a motorcycle on autopilot at 60mph and it turns off just in time to not kill yourself approaching a 10mph corner with a rock face on the outer edge of the corner, where you come to a complete stop within 1 meter of said rock face after the bike was sliding all over the place wondering if you will stop before impact.

[@Akula114]

Another super video! This goes along with something I've thought about often. I frequently attend meetings of various groups of people. The room is a typical fluorescent lit large office with plain walls and about 14 or so folding tables forming a large rectangle. Chairs are arranged around the tables and walls forming sort of a large conference room. The chairs and tables all have rollers, so everything gets shoved about when people leave without pushing their chairs back in. When the room is left in disorder, the group meetings frequently go the same way... a bit disorganized. However, when I take the time to line up the tables and chairs neatly, the participants generally take their seats and are more focussed on the topic of the day. I believe this is because the messy room takes more effort to navigate, lest you bump into a table or don't get the kind of chair you like. The orderly room is predictable while the messy room is not. It requires more brain power to simply come in and find a place to sit. In a similar way, aircraft designers have learned to put fewer alarms and distracting indicators on the instrument panel so pilots don't "tune them out" leading to more frequent "controlled flight into terrain" incidents that really hurt on-time arrivals and departures. And passengers. The same is true of nurses' stations in busy hospitals, where constant beeps and alarms going off every time Mr. Smithee in 237 wants his TV channel changed may lead to Ms Jones sudden cardiac arrest going unnoticed. I further posit that my ADD friend likes his hideously messy office because the disorder keeps his wandering mind more entertained. All interesting stuff. Do keep up the most intelligent channel on KZbin. American radio host Glenn Beck used to describe his show as the meeting place of entertainment and enlightenment. He missed out as he devolved into a right-wing blowhard. You, sir, have taken that title away from him in a very successful way. Thank you.

[@rogerb1667]

This is a really good comment. Needs more likes and reply so thoughy2 can see it

[@joshuakeenan2207]

I love when he says "well" like ok I'm in for some learning right here 😁

[@thondomain]

Watson: How do you notice such things, Holmes? Sherlock: How long have we shared these rooms? Watson: Two years. Sherlock: You walk up the stairs from the ground floor at least twice a day, do you not? Watson: Yes, so? Sherlock: How many steps are there? Watson: I... I've never counted them. Sherlock: There are twenty-two. You see, but you do not observe. Not verbatim but from a Sherlock Holmes story I read 30+ years ago.

[@ys2850]

good example brother

[@lesteryaytrippy7282]

Holmes may be fictional, buy he's an example of how his detective work relies on having to keep an open mind to all manner of subjects to solve crimes and mysteries.

[@cjdennis149]

@@lesteryaytrippy7282 Ironically, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was remarkably credulous and believed his good friend Harry Houdini actually had supernatural powers. I've watched lots of magic tricks that I can't explain. I don't believe supernatural magic is the answer for any of them. "Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth." How arrogant to think anyone can think of every possibility and work out which ones are impossible! "Once you exhaust your own limited imagination, whatever remains unexplained, no matter how impossible, must be the supernatural." Holmes is a fun character, but he's very far removed from reality, and practical methods.

[@justamanofculture12]

Just search 'Art of Deduction' on youtube. you won't regret it 😌

[@mmercier0921]

People use muscle memory climbing stairs. Put a 1" thick board on a higher step at night. Called a farmers alarm. After six steps your brain coordinates with balance, run and rise. Hit that 1" change... yer laying on your ass at the bottom of the stairs.

[@cuetoaa7074]

Thoughty2: let me explain why you missed the gorilla. Me: but...I didn't miss it.

[@robertidonotsharemyfullnam496]

welcome to the other 50%

[@WAVE0025]

The people who noticed the gorilla probably only noticed it because they stopped keeping track of the ball as soon as they started passing it

[@walidfakhfakh3660]

@@robertidonotsharemyfullnam496 shut up

[@semeionsho]

I didn't miss too. I saw it but chose to ignore cos it didn't matter. I continued counting. I felt like a genius or one with a brain that wastes too much energy on unneeded data😅😅😅😅

[@Sacred_Silence]

I saw it immediately, but ignored it because I knew it was just a distraction. And they passed the ball 12 times.

[@markh4926]

I live in a wooded area across from a pasture. My kitten followed me out to the yard where I was doing a short task. I started walking back to the house and the kitten lingered, I looked up and saw a hawk gliding over my walnut tree and aiming at the kitten. I stepped back to the kitten and the hawk veered off and flew away. My mind turned the hawk into a harmless duck. That was a strange experience and the picture is still very clear in my mind, it happened over a year ago.

[@Silver-zc1tb]

Maybe it was a duck and your mind turned it into a hawk? Idk, that’s strange I’ve never heard of that happening.

[@MrDominicharrison]

Great video … another thing worth mentioning is car accidents and how only yesterday at work I dealt with two separate accidents caused by idiots who weren’t paying attention

[@mrfugly2821]

Basically why I miss when a female is flirting or hinting

[@marlonyo]

@Sanne Hamerslag I keep telling myself that I am just missing it and not that it never happens

[@johannesforsblad2308]

No. You are missing that because it never happend

[@dernvader6876]

So true

[@mbrackeva]

Some people believe a woman is flirting with them while that's untrue. That's a lot worse...

[@WalkingOnWater86]

Very simple are you hot or rich? No! She's not!

[@wyliebrabson7946]

My brain didn't filter out the 6 ads that played during this otherwise interesting video.

[@jwazy1095]

but i can't recall the adds either

[@CaseyTheAlpha]

Get Red. Lmao

[@TheRoidemortetfleur]

mine did and i watched them what were they

[@jamesjoyce660]

imagine being this much of a boomer

[@TheRoidemortetfleur]

@@jamesjoyce660 I imagine u don't remember either. nor knew what it was selling.

[@JackRowsey]

When I was a young kid, it was hard to get my dad’s attention while he was reading the newspaper. I’d say, “Dad?” Then ask the question. When he wouldn’t answer, I’d say, “Dad?” Louder and louder. Eventually, I’d give up or I’d yell it loud enough, that he would answer. Then one time, again, while he was reading the newspaper, I couldn’t get his attention, I yelled, “Dad?” Then at the same time, did basically a drum roll with my hands at the newspaper from behind it. It startled him, he didn’t get mad …… However, I noticed from then on that he never completely ignored me, while he was reading the newspaper. I could then get his attention on the first try. I was 11 years old when I finally did that and he learned to “Hear me” on the first try. This was in 1976, BTW. He’s still alive and 95 yo, now. I’ll be seeing him today.

[@WorcoEntertainment]

I saw it straight away, but it does explain a lot when it comes to some people you encounter.

[@jimwalsh2001]

I noticed the gorilla, but not right away: "Ten...elev- WHAT TH..."

[@garrettg5130]

False, at eleven the gorilla has exited the scene. - The Dwight Schrute that lives in my brain.

[@huntertheanything4274]

@@garrettg5130 but it is possible to mess the counting up, which is likely because of how many times things are being thrown around.

[@medexamtoolsdotcom]

Yeah that's the case with me too, I thought it was just a dark clothed guy until he was about 1/3 of the way onto the screen, really though how could anyone not notice it, certainly when he stopped in the middle of the screen to do gorilla type poses.

[@baronvonlobotomus7530]

For a moment at around the 8-9th pass, the gorilla blocks the ball. I was like: ‘hey get out of th- is that a gorrila?’

[@myallhanckel8405]

I guess it has to do with the way you focus, and that is situational. Maybe some people because they were given such a simple thing to look for were constantly concentrating on the balls so as not to miss anything. I was continually refocusing, on the ball when necessary, and the rest of the time on looking for anything relevant so I saw someone else enter almost instantly, then realised it was different from the others shortly after. I think it's good to think of things almost as though they are trick questions, regardless of whether there is any 'trick' it encourages the mind to see things from more perspectives.

[@whittersricchy4825]

Thank you for fully describing the reason my brain shorts out when I open a tin of shortbread cookies, only to find sewing supplies.

[@MikeS-um1nm]

Good one!! I have never seen sewing supplies in anything BUT a shortbread cookie tin !!

[@Oneshot8242]

It explains tongue piercing, though.

[@Notmyname1593]

Reminds me of that one time when I almost drank motor oil for cola. Luckily the taste difference woke me. Never drank cola since then. Maybe that is also why I like to sniff stuff before eating/drinking them.

[@shin_eightysix]

@@Notmyname1593 funny thing in my country, the Philippines, you won't expect what an ice cream container would contain. Some (if not most) Filipinos use used ice cream containers to place their food. So I am now always keeping myself from opening ice cream containers because I might just disappoint myself.

[@roxannlegg750]

I newed to work as a continuity editor...i spot ALL this stuff. Esp hair makeup and costume continuity...i can usually tell, in some episodes, what pieces were filmed before each other and which ones were re done over and over! I thrive on it!!!

[@timclarke6087]

I recently had to do a test which involved spotting hazards, risks and vulnerable people as part of a job application process, and with the knowledge from this video I would argue that such a test is completely unfair.

[@butwhytho4858]

Aye but the diff is, hopefully a job interview/test isn’t trying to trick you. They are stating they want you to find hazards and that’s exactly what your brain is gonna focus on. In the case of the gorilla, our brain/eyes did what we asked of it; count the number of passes. If we were asked to keep an eye out for anything unusual, we would all have seen the gorilla. So to me, this is a bait and switch trick and not a good example of how we can and will miss things.

[@jmack4275]

Was anyone else expecting him to do a shirt change? Or even put on a tie halfway through the video? Missed opportunity

[@jeggsonvohees2201]

He did though...

[@chrismoore1984]

Yes. The only reason I stayed till the end was waiting on him to point it out, but he never did.

[@ladystein2246]

Jmack 4275 yes

[@PoodleParti]

@@jeggsonvohees2201 I see black and white plaid all the way through.

[@jeggsonvohees2201]

@@PoodleParti Joke.

[@purplesass_5219]

Him: forty-two here Me: aww you don't look that old...

[@deputywreckmeister]

That's why British English sucks

[@purplesass_5219]

@@deputywreckmeister lol. It's kinda cute tho

[@stylis666]

Hey man, in ascii you can be 42 every day ;)

[@jimbelcher8999]

42 = answer to the question of the universe, Doug Adams

[@notusingmyname4791]

"thoughty two"

[@jeffanderson5396]

When confronted with a reality that is different than what you remember, the logical thing to do is to accept reality and distrust your memory.

[@KH4L13D]

So am I the only one wondering why the thumbnail wasn’t discussed? 🙄

[@Adahn99]

Our predictive models make us assume that the thumbnail is a clickbait

[@Conceptcreator]

Never seen this, and i was like: wait wtf is that dude doing! Why! That feels so random lol

[@buckiesmalls]

But did you get the count pass correct? LOL.

[@watchyourtimeco1]

@@buckiesmalls The video starts mid-pass. There were 11 more bounce passes, one of these being a bounce pass, plus 11 dribbles. Why I felt the need to count the dribbles too, I'll never know.

[@johnpearcey]

I saw the gorilla when it was centre stage and though WTF?! I thought it was a distraction to stop me counting the passes - and I lost count!

[@Cheesequicksand]

I saw it to on my first time

[@christopherjohnson8229]

@@Cheesequicksand Better than I did.

[@AlexM-xj7qd]

It's funny how his moustache slowly grew in throughout the episode and I didn't even notice

[@poursomebeeronit]

Haha. Good one.

[@Girlinacloset_]

i bet people wont even notice that! LOL

[@Okurka.]

What moustache?

[@Chopper-AK47]

Lol

[@Okurka.]

Why did you completely change your comment?

[@CloverCutieASMR]

I have OCD and I notice a lot more than the average person from my experience. I'm hyper fixated on detail and am very good at noticing inconsistencies. It's actually kinda cool and really helpful. My artist friend shows me all her art before she gives it to clients because if anything is slightly off, I'll notice. Update: I looked this up and this actually is a thing with scientific studies and everything! It's actually pretty neat.

[@Akira-Aerins]

tell me more

[@Bill_tyler]

🙄

[@Enjyu_666]

I feel you. In my case it's not OCD but due to my work I had to "have an eye for detail", so I've somehow naturally become able to spot the tiniest detail, difference, oddity, just about anything about anything or anyone. Sometimes it's handy, most often it doubles my work (but not my payslip) :D

[@Ben420WeedsnatchaOcchiol]

feel this...but im AuDHD. Being neurodivergent, our brains dont have that predictive filter and it is recognised that our brains process a LOT more sensory information than a neurotypical brain. My lovely ASD pattern recognition noticed the person in the gorilla suit, but as the test was task oriented, it wasnt the most important bit of information for me...and as far as my brain was concerned, the gorilla suit person was a separate task. Sensory overwhelm sucks tho.

[@bryana3704]

I’m the same and I still didn’t see the gorilla at first. I kept wanting whatever was blocking the damn ball to move out of the way. LMFAO.

[@Dimensionalalteration]

A thing that I keep seeing is period drama with people in it saying ,"wouldn't want to steal their thunder",no one ever said that back then.

[@cal5750]

I love when autopilot kicks in when driving. It feels like I just teleported to my destination.

[@DragonSageKaimus]

Or when your playing a game and winging it without trying.

[@hourflower]

Teleportation to A&E

[@brickpig]

I was taught racing motocross to never look directly in front of where I was going but about 100m ahead constantly. The reason was it gave you reaction time. Trusting yourself that you've seen enough ahead to deal with it physically once it arrived and still looking 100m ahead was strange but it works. Every now and then though you've missed something and wham! You have no heads up its coming. Wouldn't recommend that method on the road in public by the way.

[@ricoswagger7076]

That always kinda freaks me out like omg was I even paying attention how did I not crash.

[@ne5560]

You know how people talk about the brain as its own entity. Your brain is you.

[@svipace8220]

I have waited something like this at the end: "Did you realised that I changed my shirt 30 times during the video."

[@RonBest]

Or if in the end it was Vsauce instead of Thoughty2, would had been epic :P

[@xhelixshotx]

I looked back to see if he did change his shirt. Was disappointed

[@fjolliff6308]

@@xhelixshotx It wasn't 30 times. It was once. Before the RSL ad he was wearing a totally different shirt. I thought it was weird until I realized the purpose at the end of the video. He was literally demonstrating the entire theory.

[@mbrackeva]

@@fjolliff6308 I noticed because that's what happens in most of his videos.

[@bangy4269]

Well I have finished the video yet so yes

[@windowlicker_4207]

Being a "witness" to anything takes on a whole new meaning in the judiciary sense of the word. 😂😂

[@ethangoebel9625]

This perfectly explains what happens when my grandma decides to put away leftovers in a butter container. I want butter but I get baked beans

[@TheJereld]

I mainly come here now just to hear him say, "Hey! Forty-Two here."

[@AndyHappyGuy]

And one video he doesn't say it and your brain freaks out and explodes.

[@socktier6334]

Jerel Damon he’s saying “thoughty 2” but it sounds like “forty-two” because of his accent, some English accents pronounce the “th” as a “f” , for example they say “fought” when saying “thought”.

[@theodorebear6714]

I come here for the vitriolic racism against the spanish.

[@Mukation]

@@theodorebear6714 I came here for the glory of the eternal fire

[@christopherellis2663]

Mmm, it's Thoughty 2, you zombie 🧟‍♂️

[@grilledcookie6259]

I wish my brain did this with "Raid: Shadow Legends!"

[@Notmyname1593]

Git gud.

[@arshvimal4780]

If you all are good people DONT RUIN THE 69 LIKES.

[@dakkonblackblade6122]

Wait, there was a "Raid: Shadow Legends" ad?

[@shiroh3581]

there was a raid ad?

[@CrimsonLadyVT]

the ice cream tub analogy... in my country, if you open an ice cream tub from our fridge/freezer, we most likely not have ice cream in it.. but meat or fish. or left overs. =)))) many times that my son felt like he's been lied to think there's an ice cream in the tub.. hahahahaha

[@daniell1483]

I first noticed this filtering effect when I was in a room with lots of people and mid-conversation when someone else in the crowd said my name. I didn't know the person, there was another Dan in the room, but it was at that point I realized just how much stimuli the brain filters away from conscious attention. I'm sure I'm not unique in how I discovered this filtering process. The whole thing almost makes it seem like there is a co-pilot in our head, taking care of sub-conscious tasks so we can focus on what is important.

[@bakamono2630]

Imagine if he switched shirt everytime it cuts back to him.

[@OutlawCaliber13]

Only once that I saw.

[@melkel2010]

He does that in his other videos, too

[@finnologyy]

I like your pfp

[@bakamono2630]

@@finnologyy 😮

[@BAD_HOBO]

Me, a nosy person who pays attention to everything. His mustache needs grease and a comb.

[@SlippinmyJimmy]

Who?

[@astronomyforbeginners-a4b-217]

Years ago I did a experiment with a step leading into a office, for a laugh! involving my works Managers. At the bottom of the step was a one inch high grate for scraping the bottom of your shoes. This grate therefore, reduced the height of the step by one inch. Due to the length of time this grate was in place everyone that used the step on a daily basis was use to it. But when I removed the grate, making the step one inch higher. Everyone going up the step would hit the top of the step causing a trip. After three months I put back the grate, once again reducing the step height by one inch. Because everyone had by now gotten use to the extra height they would now stumble, due to the missing one inch. It was so much fun watching the managers tripping and stumbling! Though as a punishment I was given car wash duty through the winter. But hey well worth it especially when they was showing visitors around haha! Great Vlog! - Fletch -

[@MrTridac]

When I'm driving I'm constantly going through all the worst things that can happen at every moment. Including all the things that could fail on my own car, and all the mistakes I could make in any situation. I still like driving.

[@junaidfarooqui1993]

Looks like Arran has quarantined himself and is uploading very frequently now! Or that's how he's controlling his COVID-19 madness.

[@Zeck88522]

Day 7 of corona virus. Some one invents untigravity/flying cars from boredom.

[@Youbeentagged]

When I was crossing the road, I looked left and right to make sure no vehicles were in my way. When I took a step forward, a bike ran over my foot.

[@soulmas520]

some woman watched my mom while she was driving down the street , look left and right several times ad before she pulled right out and crashed into her. She said "I could just tell that you didn't see me"

[@petergant8767]

What, a bicycle's not a vehicle to you,!?

[@Youbeentagged]

@@petergant8767 it is, I just didn't see it, And it wasn't a bicycle, it was a motorbike

[@soulmas520]

@@Youbeentagged 😆

[@fascismissocialismsocialis4638]

lack of attention, that's what explain it, being able to see the big picture as you focus on detail is an important training to do.

[@hazystudios]

It very much explains how slight of hand, misdirection and other magician illusions happen right under one's nose.

[@denizdix]

Raid: Shadow legend - next suggested video: "How popular video games fool your brain and steal your money"

[@celestiallemon1555]

Haven’t watched this in a while The mustache caught me off guard

[@BRUHItsABunny]

ik the feels

[@funkyflames7430]

Bruh grammar. “Haven’t watched this is a while” Add some punctuation kid. I am not asking for perfect english, but at least make your comment sensible.

[@celestiallemon1555]

EmpireBuilder, I’m not going to add punctuation as a mere act of defiance. Thanks for having me read my comment again though, you helped me notice the, “is”, that slipped my eye.

[@__-eu7wu]

i miss 100 facts

[@funkyflames7430]

Celestial Lemon it is ironic. For a comment on a video about missing details you miss a detail right after. Really shows that you (as in the public) can’t change your mind in an instant.

[@marisaelyse82]

you are my favorite channel BY FAR! Can't wait to receive your book

[@angryginger791]

It's crazy how easy it is to trick your brain. I play racing sims in VR. When the weather goes from cloudy to sunny, sometimes I'll swear I can feel the warmth of it on my skin. And when I first started using VR, if I drove through a dip in the road, my brain would add in the stomach drop feeling.

[@dthxmas5425]

the brain doesn’t miss the obvious, it misses what your not focussed on

[@SharpestBulbs]

That mustache is really pushing it man. You're going to get arrested.

[@keltar2007]

Wiztard What? that sweet stache?

[@msaad8053]

His stache is good

[@mari.s752]

As for spotting "flubs" in movie and tv shows I tend to catch so many of them that my roommate says I ruin TV for her because I always point them out. I got in the habit of watching for them after watching gone with the wind at a drive in theater in 1974, it has several.

[@dawsie]

I remember watching a movie with gladiators fighting when I noticed a very expensive Rolex on one of them😹😹😹but I tend to see everything when driving even to the point one night I saw a mouse run to the centre of the road and hid behind the white tab in the Center so I slowed right down and sure enough it stuck its head around the tab 😹😹😹I sat there waiting for it to finish crossing the road, when it realised the lights had stopped moving it ran across in front of me and into the tall grass😹😹 I see the lizards on the road during the day 9 out of 10 I can even tell you what type of lizard they are. Dad said I was always like this even as a passenger as a child I would spot things he had missed.😹😹 he says it’s because I’m autistic my brain works differently, I was 58 when I was diagnosed my brother was diagnosed when he was 5-6 years old. It turns out girls/woman have a way of masking it all the time due to the fact we multi task better than men do. Girls were often missed because of the way they masked. I was told I should have been tested years ago because if one child has it, the odds are all siblings will have some form of autism as well. They have found that it’s genetically passed down from the parents. My Mom was autistic she had been diagnosed when she was in her late 30’s. Autistic people just see things differently, but they see everything at the same time, but for some reason boys have a harder time of dealing with the overload compared to girls. This is something that they are only just learning in the past decade now.

[@mari.s752]

@@dawsie my roommate doesn't understand that I see things differently and it's difficult to explain. One example is when I read I look at a page then move on to the next one, no need to waste time doing all that gratuitous and unnecessary word for word reading.

[@madmark1957]

This is also why in a street or path with a lot of pedestrian traffic, a person standing completely still on the periphery of the crowd is totally invisible to almost everyone.

[@chuckidesantis8166]

Sherlock Holmes was known to say that if a man remembered everything he'd ever learned (heard or seen), he could predict the future. That seems to fit your theory.

[@kiiturii]

atleast with very high accuracy

[@Helena.0815]

I agree

[@kiiturii]

@Urayis wish l wrong

[@chuckidesantis8166]

@Urayis wish l Anything that can be called an "accident" or "co-incidence" occurs AGAINST the odds of probability. So, no, not "EVERYTHING" falls under that description. It would be more accurate to say that that everything is the result of cause and effect and is part of a pattern or cycle.If you know that day follows night and then it becomes day again, you can predict that any time and be correct. There are no co-incidences..

[@parkerlawson3484]

Sherlock Holmes was a fictional character. That theory has one big hole. To predict the future with any accuracy you would have to experience the whole universe so it could be the predictive model you're working from. We all work from predictive models. An IQ is nothing more than ones ability to recognize and predict patterns. Some have a better capacity to do this than others.

[@SchizoaffectedGamer2112]

He is definitely saying “Hey!, Forty Two Here.”

[@ChaseMcCain81]

Ikr?

[@neillundgren4434]

His own social experiment!

[@bangy4269]

No he’s British

[@baffledwaffle6319]

Ikr?

[@w.neuman]

*(I ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT) : °[THEN] · "FinaLLy~ReaLized" His Nickname ··· "Thoughty Two" · °[BUT~THEN] : "STILL" Thought it sounded Like He was Saying ··· "Forty-Two" .!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 👀❓❔❓❔❓❔❓👀 €¥£ ^

[@_The_Majestic.]

all of these things make me enjoy having terrible ADHD where i have to focus on my surroundings and small details constantly. its crazy how the mind works and how it can be rewired from person to person

[@Rinyotsu]

This explains why I have no friends. I have no model with which to judge a good friend. I've always only been a pawn in someone's game. Therefore I've learned to avoid them because my only reliable model of friendship is negative.

[@im1who84u]

14:57 In this case, my brain has built a model to predicatively expect to see a women's cleavage when she is bent over..... and in this case, my brain was correct.

[@triplet00]

I was going to see if anyone else noticed that!

[@nightdeveloper]

Yep, my predictive model also make me see that

[@alvachan88]

after i saw that, i knew to scroll down to find such a comment. human behavior is predictable.

[@im1who84u]

@@alvachan88 I knew when I wrote that comment that I could predicatively expect someone would leave just such a comment as yours about my comment. Ta Da...

[@Rhyly]

When I'm high af I see or hear things in music or films that I would never have seen when sober.

[@deathriders83]

Yup!

[@starjumper]

Yessssss

[@11thirty3]

Dizz I get the same on dmt and mushies

[@James.99]

I remember the first time I heard "There is no dark side of the moon really. As a matter of fact it's all dark"

[@1SmokedTurkey1]

It's because psychedelic drugs "remove" that filter and you experience it all as new without preconceived notions.

[@Germ_f]

"Many people can't see the gorilla the first time they see the video" Me who actually saw it: Am i special? :D

[@OmniversalInsect]

Same, until I realised you were meant to be counting the passes lol

[@DeadSpace014]

I was in my very first car wreck back in 2015. I was on vacation in Tennessee with 6 other people, and I was one of the two drivers. Our first official day there was coming to a close, and I was driving back to our cabin with two other people. I was trying to find the back road on the left, all the while paying attention to the black truck tailgating me and even the silver SUV behind them. I was trying to watch my speed as I didn't want to miss my turn either. I finally found my turn, but a car was about pulled out way too far, so I was calculating how sharp a turn to get around them.....and while I was considering all of these factors, I managed to miss the oncoming red mustang. I pulled out right in front of him. I just did not see him. I always knew that was fact, but this video makes me feel better about it. Even though it was indeed my fault, I WAS paying attention, but I just didn't notice the car.

[@katzuma7641]

2:13 when he said “let’s go on to our sponsor” I literally said “raid shadow legends” at the same time he did, that’s nuts

[@novacorponline]

Didn't you pay attention to the rest of the video? Your brain created a predictive model. Because there is a 100% chance that a youtuber will be sponsored by Raid: Shadow Legends, your brain automatically expects to to hear "Raid: Shadow Legends" following a word from our sponsor type sentence.

[@asahmosskmf4639]

Today i got up to talk to my wife about something. She texted me about it while i was in the other room walking to talk to her.

[@anduro7448]

Saw the gorila but ignored it because i thought someone is gonna play a sneaky on me and randomly insert a forth person while i am distracted by the gorila guy Edit: I got the task wrong i was supposed to count the passes not people in a white shirt , dont ask how

[@stephenb7829]

Ok but did you count how many times the ball was thrown ?

[@im1who84u]

@@stephenb7829 Did you see what color underwear the guy with the blue shoe laces was wearing?

[@im1who84u]

Good call. It just didn't play out that way.

[@wolfancap6897]

While i was counting the passes i suddenly spotted a new person in there, and i assumed it was supposed to distract me so i missed the passes, but it took a few seconds to realise it was a guy dressed like a gorilla.

[@ZikedY]

I was trying to see if there was two balls, it why I missed the gorilla

[@feralbluee]

“How in holy hell did i ever miss that?” Love it! 🐲 take look at this dragon. (did you notice the two red dots? LOL)

[@josiatokirina1788]

Being able to see more and observe what is not always obvious makes a good detective.

[@GodsGanja]

That mustache puts his power level over 9000!

[@ohtug]

Ganja God, that isn’t even his final forme!

[@synthlord2368]

@@ohtug Wait till the handlebars grow out!!!

[@idgaf2461]

@@ohtug when he reach full power you will think that its White Beard commander😂

[@alucardgd2831]

I didn’t notice it first time until he said it

[@whackydumdum]

We use this video for training around aircraft maintenance - to show people how fallible we can be and we "miss" things. Many people don't see it until you point it out. You are focussed on the white shirts...don't see the gorilla because it's not important to the task you were given.

[@beth-bi9yv]

I defn missed the gorilla. Somehow I was more distracted by the 3 on the back of the wall.

[@firebladetenn6633]

Cal GD I saw somebody walking away from the game, but nothing else.

[@stanfield3239]

Did you notice two big "S"s on the wall?

[@jaredtandle2596]

I saw it.. was thinking what the hell is that oh shit I lost count.

[@shadowman7307]

When I noticed there was 2 basketballs being thrown around I thought it was too much trouble counting and saw the gorilla as soon as it entered the frame.

[@av-abv-a9908]

'You dont need to focus on shifting' automatic gearbox

[@133Nomad]

I didn’t see a gorilla, I seen a guy in a gorilla suit, but no actual gorilla.

[@matthewdockray9745]

Wow you must be very cool

[@Leon-cp3gh]

It might have been patrick star

[@Freddy-jk5jq]

@@Leon-cp3gh lmao

[@robbieezc907]

Nobody said "actual gorilla" tho, so.... you got yourself.

[@m3371]

@Heyward Shepherd Blind hatred towards a mental disorder that you don't even know he has. Jesus you must be a lot of fun at a party.

[@derpchalk6872]

Who would've thought a raid shadow legends sponsor would take over even Thoughty2?

[@nesirsitsir]

they must pay well!

[@Jake-rm4be]

DerpChalk he’s done it before

[@BRUHItsABunny]

i cant blame anyone for taking sponsor money, it makes sense i can blame sponsors for lying about paying people to advertise tho Thoughty2 = ✓ Raid = ........, well u know

[@MarcusHansen276]

Times are hard

[@SuraiginOfficial]

when i was very young (1-6 years old) i was falling so many times that years after that my brain was so used to the way and feeling of falling that it found a subconscious way to completely avoid falling in any way unless i really try to make myself fall.

[@handsfree1000]

This is why witness statements from a crime differs, they where all there but remember it differently. If there is only one witness it’s possible for an innocent person to go to prison for a crime he did not commit.

[@greenlantern9930]

“and now a word from our sponsors Raid: Shadow Legends” **KING CRIMSON**

[@jannetteberends8730]

Are you referring to King Crimson, the legendary band? And if so: What is the connection?

[@electriccherrygamer9139]

@@jannetteberends8730 oh my sweet summer child

[@xanferthehaunted9788]

4:16, looks like the man is controlling the digital ad board.

[@JulioRodriguez-om8ho]

Lol didn’t even notice

[@im1who84u]

I noticed the same thing and thought he was going to call that out.

[@GrinnedSwiss]

Nice eyes

[@smoke4131]

Well actually no cause there's different footage after the scroll

[@peterjf7723]

If you walk into an office building wearing a hiviz jacket, carrying a clipboard people will generally assume that you have a good reason for being there.

[@spacemissing]

I am amazed by how much I miss several times a week. This phenomenon is so common for me that I have come to expect I won't see what I'm looking for at all.

[@JohnDoe-zw8vx]

So what you're really trying to say is that Bigfoot can still be real even though we've never seen one...

[@samuraizebra3219]

I think that’s up there with mental patients and phantom phone calls.

[@jkm6112]

We've never seen one? If your meaning of we is humanity, then you're very wrong. "We've" seen Bigfoot hundreds of thousands of times.

[@JohnDoe-zw8vx]

@@jkm6112 👏... 👏... 👏... (whoosh)

[@deltavee2]

It only shows up at basketball games.

[@cristinafultz2378]

11 , they pass it 11 times And yes I thought the gorilla walking in the middle of their game was rude

[@kiiturii]

your attempt at sounding smart has failed

[@cameronbadgwell2753]

How is this an attempt in sounding smart?

[@onegodd]

@@cameronbadgwell2753 because they counted the times a white shirt passed the ball to a black shirt and vise versa.

[@cristinafultz2378]

@@kiiturii,thanks

[@cristinafultz2378]

@@cameronbadgwell2753 I guess counting is impressive

[@sophieartmusic]

I saw the gorilla and my thought was.. oh look they’re trying to distract me! But I still kept count.

[@Dragontrumpetare]

A friend of mine (who just yeasterday passed away) did actually talk about this for a cople of months ago. He told me that he had in sense much easier to discovere animals close to the road, just because he himself was taught up hunting. SO he was a whole lot faster to notice moose or dears out on the field, than I was.

[@shiswamy7265]

I’m sorry about that but was it really necessary to point that out

[@CoolDudeClem]

3:35 to skip him waffling on about how much he likes some game that nobody cares about. Thank me later.

[@i_smoke_ghosts]

i wonder who the thank will come from .

[@duudsuufd]

But then you miss the gorilla part in his introduction.

[@WARNEY2K9]

I genuinely missed the gorilla trying to focus on the people to count the passes. I'm normally a really observant person, but damn, that got me. *Facepalm*

[@morganstarchild5359]

Same!

[@Zeus_stynn]

Likewise

[@sadistksuffring1537]

The fact that you're more observant was probably your downfall. Means you concentrated more on the task at hand and your brain worked harder to block out the black. Happened to me too, I subconsciously saw all the black around but it was 13 passes I believe. I'd also be willing to guess that those who didn't see the gorilla would've been able to answer how many passes

[@M1ggins]

I didn't see it until it beat it's chest, but then I lost count of how many passes there were.

[@sadistksuffring1537]

If they would do another study just the same but have the other people in red or something so the black stands out a bit. Im curious how many people would notice it then

[@slayerorsmoothgroov3376]

I know the guy that played storm trooper who hit his head in irl FOR THE RECORD that was no mistake; it is intentional. He told me personally. He now lives in Abilene, Texas, and is doing fine. He still plays a storm trooper from time to time in hospitals for kids.

[@sidmarx7276]

The gorilla test was in black and white. My brain went: "Ignore the ball passing between dark shirts and count the throws between white shirts." What if the passing gorilla was bright red? Surely that would've snapped me out of that mode. Also it's strange that a trained gorilla handler would spot some guy walking upright in a very phoney gorilla suit and equate that with the real thing.

[@theno3354]

“Turns out that’s just how the brain works” Guys, my brain is broken I saw the gorilla

[@shiro9112]

The No 50%

[@ugluis8]

The No me to

[@NLSasuga]

But did you see the ninja orgy?

[@ugluis8]

What where

[@Uradamus]

Probably just means you're bad at following directions and didn't manage to count the white passes, heh. =P

[@blackmagician7645]

😀Hah! The mind trick didn't count on my brain giving up and just focusing on the person in the gorilla suit strolling by! Can't mislead a mind with a broken train of thought!😁

[@colddreams1157]

I literally didn’t care about anything else till the gorilla came in then my interest was piqued 😂😂

[@pagepingree6976]

This is me 100%. As a cashier I will take a customer, and a few customers later the same person could be back in my line, (because they found something else.) and I don’t even notice they are the same person and great them like I didn’t just take them 2 minutes ago. Because I don’t realize it’s the same person. Happens all the time.