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by AznHisoka 2887 days ago
Thats gotta be some optical illusion thing.
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When you skim headlines instead of reading them, your brain makes guesses at the words instead of actually reading each letter, as a speed hack.

It's also used as a crutch when your eyesight slowly degrades over the years.

Sometimes it leads to Freudian slips, other times, you just expect to read about people instead of worms.

I think you're right -- "Worms frozen" looks like "Wo…en" when you read the two words quickly. Your brian tedns to flil in the mdidle of wodrs baesd on the ousitde lteters.