It was one of those typical moments for this season; cold, windy, bit of drizzle in your face, I’m sure you know how it feels. I think it was Friday, some of my friends came around my place for a few drinks before going out.

After a while the conversation drifted from the usual small-talk catching up to something I find intriguing since I started working at noggin. Do you ever not see something that is right in front of you? Or drive somewhere without really knowing what happened along the way? Maybe you’ve seen some of the very many optical illusions (like on this website from the University of York)?

The best giggles I had when I remembered a video I’d seen a while ago from the Visual Cognition Lab at the University of Illinois. In this video are two teams, one dressed in black shirts and the other dressed in white shirts.

Watch the video once; count the number of throws between the people in the white shirts. Then when you’ve counted the number of throws, watch the video again, but without counting. What did you miss the first time?

Is it just me or is there something funny going on with reality?