Live Science: Perhaps our human senses are deceiving us — maybe existence is an illusion, and reality isn't real.
Human senses are fallible. What people think they perceive is actually filtered and processed by the brain to construct a useful view of the world. Normally, this filtering is helpful, allowing people to sort out important information from the barrage of data that comes in every minute from their environment.
But this filtering ability can become a weakness, as it often does when we're watching a magician...read more>>>...