Why Your Brain Chooses to Believe Your EyesThe powerful illusion of self-motion while standing still.

That strange sensation of movement you feel in an IMAX theater or next to a moving train is a powerful trick of the mind called vection. It happens when your brain is forced to choose between conflicting information from your eyes and your inner ear. Faced with this sensory contradiction, your brain defaults to trusting your vision, creating a false but deeply convincing feeling of motion. This process reveals how our minds actively edit our perception to construct a coherent reality.

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