[iandanforth]

Yes and no. We do hallucinate both temporal and spatial content from any scene we perceive but there's also a big part of the brain which causes you to ignore missing information. For example during a saccade (rapid eye movement) you're basically blind, the brain just edits out of your perceptual stream the part where the world is an incomprehensible blur.

[scoot]

Expanding in this - if you've ever glanced at a ticking clock, and the second hand seemed frozen for a moment, that was the brain backfilling the gap (after the fact!) left by the saccade.

I was aware of the phenomenon (from personal experience) but not fo the cause, but there was a post here relatively recently that went into the details. Apologies that I can't now find it.

[InvaderFizz]

I can't find the HN post, but I believe this was the tweet thread that it referenced: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1014267515696922624.html

[scoot]

That's the one - thanks!