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Reality is being hidden from you, and the thing hiding it is your own brain. Right now, there is a hole in your vision you cannot see, the solid world beneath your hand is mostly empty space, and the present moment you're living in has already passed. Your brain creates reality, edits it, and delivers it to you as finished. In this film, we follow five cracks where the unedited world slips through.

We begin with Jill Bolte Taylor, the Harvard trained brain scientist whose 1996 stroke switched off the machinery that builds experience. Her story, told in My Stroke of Insight and in one of the most watched TED talks in history, is where our journey starts. What she felt in those hours is hidden inside ordinary life, every day, for all of us.

This is not a video about reality being fake. It's about something stranger. Perception is an act of participation, this is consciousness explained from the inside, and you were never just watching the world. You are part of how it happens.

CHAPTERS

00:00 There is a hole in your vision

00:51 The scientist who watched reality stop

04:26 Crack 1: The blind spot

07:51 Crack 2: The emptiness inside matter

12:54 Crack 3: The delayed now

17:34 Crack 4: Language, the photograph problem

21:47 Crack 5: The self, the flame called "I"

26:25 What the cracks were showing us

29:19 Recap

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Further viewing and reading:

Jill Bolte Taylor, My Stroke of Insight (book and TED talk) youtube.com/watch?v=UyyjU8fzEYU

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Music:

Ben Elson - Space Waves

Valante - Alonia

John Gegelman - Back to Earth

Solis - Ambit

Luke Richards - According To Plan, https://t.lickd.co/l/Bk13AxvBapg

Kyle Preston - Twilight

Kyle Preston - A Melancholy Occasion

Sid Acharya - Echoes

Bob Bradley, Christopher Wonfor - Fragility, https://t.lickd.co/l/Aa0QK5by6kp

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