If the brain can “fill” the gap when we move our eyes, like the “longer second” phenomenon, can it be the source of weird stuff we think we see sometimes for a split second?

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Like when you feel you saw something pass by for a fraction of a second, or an unfamiliar person looking like someone you know for a split second.
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our brains are also a ” good ” face recognition device. you all have seen some one from the distance and when you get closer, it wasn’t the person you thought it was. Our brain think ” hey look it is Andrew from work “. but when you get closer and actually ” see” who that person is, it was never Andrew from work.

Our brain thinks it is Andrew because it is someone we recognize, someone we are use to see.