Illustration of a man walking towards a huge shape of a person’s head overlaid with an image of the cosmos Your brain is hallucinating right now. Not in the clinical sense, but in a way that’s far more profound: everything you’re experiencing at this moment is a controlled hallucination your brain is generating from scratch. The colors you see, the sounds you hear, the feeling of your body in space—none of it exists “out there” in the way you think it does. According to neuroscience research published in Nature Reviews Neuroscience, your brain doesn’t passively receive reality like a camera. Instead, it … Continue reading The Secret Universe Inside Your Head: How Your Brain Creates Entire Worlds From Nothing