The Real Science of Monsters | Compilation

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I had to try this so I went into my bathroom, dimmed the lights, and stood there looking at myself for 5 minutes in the mirror. Can confirm, some random person appeared, they even spoke. I could almost make out "honey, what are you doing? Are you ok?" ... Creepy stuff!

Thatcher was a horrifying monster without having to flip her facial features.

Thatcher was a monster before you flipped her face around 😂

I really appreciate Hank was talking about gestalt learning or processing of the brain. I have kiddo who is a gestalt learner. Kids like that need to have repetition of everything just to be able to talk better and learn at the same rate of their peers. Once you start doing that, they thrive. My kiddo was scoring at 15 months old even though they are actually 2 1/2 years old. Now they are scoring closer to 2 years old. All because in the three or four months since we found out that they are gestalt learners, we have been doing everything on repeat for them. Now they talk and do more things for their actual age range.

Tbh Thatcher was already a monster before the image change

Nope. you can't trick me. No way I'm going to stand in front of a mirror in the dark.

"We don't know why people see none human monsters in the mirror, but it's nothing to worry about." me- "So you're telling me we don't know it's not Kthulu?"

i think we all can agree that you dont have to flip thatcher's eyes and mouth to make her a monster. she always was one

Its so refreshing to see a bald vampite for once as opposed to the common ones with long flowing hairs.

We need to do a Ouija board study with the users being blindfolded and a separate party recording the letters or words made and then revealing after it's over

I tried the mirror thing. Went in the bathroom, turned off the lights so my tablet was the only light source, and stared directly at my face it the mirror. It was actually surprisingly quickly that I saw my face disappear! If I kept my eyes completely still, it stayed gone, but the instant they shifted even a little, it was back! Having tried a sensory deprivation tank mostly to see if I'd see any visual hallucinations, I found this effect quite cool!

My eyeballs having a resonant frequency is, for some reason, really throwing me for a loop 😅

All faces distort while staring in a dim room. I remember discovering this as a kid and believed it was a glimpse of the monsters inside.

I would say that part of it that creates the image of monsters and other creatures maybe related to the way our brains create images from like wood grain, clouds, etc. and how it would be advantageous for survival to passively notice those things when they could actually be a well camouflaged predator your prey item.

wooo!! HALLOWEEN COMPILATION! (love compilations!) and LMAO at Reid in his vampire cape 😂😂😂

3:00 Tbf, Thatcher is always a horrifying monster

Terrifying monster either way.

15:55 oh my god I was playing this in the background and then I actually looked at it and burst out laughing! Wonderful cape, your grace.

I tried the mirror one, my vision started "swimming" with phosphenes after a bit like it normally does in darkness, by which I mean I was seeing swirls of colors and shapes and my face kept getting blacked out by them on a regular pattern despite the lighting being very consistent (just a little red led on my trimmer's charger), but I didn't see anything I wouldn't have seen looking at my bedroom ceiling in the dark. Maybe I'm just weird.