Beau Lotto: Optical illusions show how we see

http://www.ted.com Beau Lotto's color games puzzle your vision, but they also spotlight what you can't normally see: how your brain works. This fun, first-hand look at your own versatile sense of sight reveals how evolution tints your perception of what's really out there.

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[Alan T]

About the picture of the desert and the green/red for some reason when he said to look at the desert after looking at the colors I saw the the right side of the desert green and the left side red...

[LLOYD19851012]

6:25 The left dessert was red and the right dessert turned green for me.

[FattestGuineaPig]

DESSEEEEEEERT :p

[gabriel rodriguez]

no that got old 1 video ago

[marcthamac]

An easy way to remember desert and dessert is that dessert (the thing you eat after dinner) has two s's and they stand for: something sweet. My 2nd grade teacher taught me this trick and I still remember it this way.

[shamey60]

same here

[Lord English]

BUT DID YOU SEE THE GORILLA?!

[xbradx11]

101 people are color blind....

[MrMineheads]

for some reason, i can't seem to see the difference between the desert scene

[LLOYD19851012]

Thank you, I'm not good at spelling so appreciate when I'm corrected.

[Lauren Weston]

dessert haha

For future reference, it's desert