Perception Facts

The organ that processes all your pain sensations has no pain receptors itself. Surgeons can operate on a conscious patient's brain while they chat about the weather. The brain literally cannot feel itself being touched or cut.

The Great Pyramid was built around 2560 BC. Cleopatra lived around 30 BC. The Moon landing was 1969 AD. Cleopatra existed closer in time to us watching Netflix than to the construction of the pyramids in her own backyard.

Your brain runs on an 80-millisecond delay. Everything you experience has already happened. You have never perceived the present moment.

The light from the Andromeda galaxy hitting your eye right now left before humans existed. You are seeing 2.5 million years into the past.