We can’t help but see things that don’t exist. Some of us have hallucinations from time to time, and they stem from three causes generally: brain problems, drugs, or visual problems. They are not features of a healthy brain, and they can occur in just about any form you can imagine. Here we are literally chasing ghosts—apparitions that don’t exist. 

Our brains have been proven quite imperfect thus far, and perhaps the best demonstration of this is how our memories work: poorly. Our realities are only a collection of our memories, so this is troubling. This starts from the process of creating a memory from scratch and how many steps can go wrong in that process of encoding, storing, and retrieving. But it doesn’t end there.

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Brain Blunders: Uncover Everyday Illusions and Fallacies, Defeat Your Flawed Thinking Habits, And Think Smarter (Or Just Less Stupidly) By Peter Hollins

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