#005 We regularly Dream! Basically every-time we sleep. They are like, pretty nice or sometimes horror- filled long movies, isn't it? You Are Absolutely WRONG. Long is the wrong word to say. Dreams last for a few seconds or sometimes minutes, thats it. They are not too long to be movies. They seem to be long. That particular moment, our brain is like, too relaxed to go through short details. But wait, what actually are movies? We all know that the movies that we watch are set of 24 pictures, well framed, passing by every second. Our brain gets tricked by such illusions and believe it as motion. Persistence of vision is the factor playing it's game here. Our brain can distinguish 16 frames per second. But that's too much. Every image taken by our eyes in 1/16th of a second is equivalent to 7 mega-pixels, costing about 7 to 8 megabytes of data. So, mathematically! 7.5x16=120 megabytes per second. Our visual lube works faster than that. It has to manipulate the data to get...
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