18 Interesting Psychological Facts About Yourself

Our visual perception of things differs from their actual appearance

Our brain constantly processes information received from sensory organs. It analyzes visual images and interprets them in a form accessible to us. For example, the reason for us being able to read a text quickly lies in the fact that we’re not actually reading it. We simply notice the first and last letters of each word, and intuitively fill in the rest, based on our past experience. As the saying goes: “It dsoen’t mtater in waht odrer the ltetres apepar in a wrod, if the fsirt and the lsat lteters remian in palce.” See? We look at groups of jumbled letters yet perceive them as proper words! And this doesn’t just happen with texts.