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The Brain with David Eagleman

Episode 1 | Alternate Realities: Synesthesia

Hannah describes her synesthesia, a condition that fascinates neuroscientists.

Aired 10/14/2015 | Rating TV-PG

The Brain with David Eagleman

Episode 1 | Alternate Realities: Synesthesia

Clip: Episode 1 | 2m 34s

Hannah describes her synesthesia, a condition that fascinates neuroscientists.

Hannah describes her synesthesia, a reminder that person to person, and brain to brain, our experiences of reality can be quite different.

Aired 10/14/2015 | Rating TV-PG

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All Is Not as It Seems

Clip: Ep1 | 1m 7s | David explains how the brain is tricked by the checker shadow illusion. (1m 7s)

Episode 1 | Brain City

Clip: Ep1 | 1m 53s | The brain is a vast interconnected network of areas that communicate with each other. (1m 53s)

Episode 1 | How the Brain Creates Reality

Clip: Ep1 | 2m 42s | David explains how the brain experiences the outside world without ever having seen it. (2m 42s)

Episode 1 | Messing with Reality

Clip: Ep1 | 4m 37s | David Eagleman experiences a new visual reality – with nauseating consequences. (4m 37s)

Episode 1 | Our Perception of Reality

Clip: Ep1 | 2m 18s | David invites subjects to an experiment that demonstrates how much our brains leave out. (2m 18s)

Episode 1 | Why Time Seems to Slow When We Are in Extremes

Clip: Ep1 | 4m 17s | Wingsuit pilot Jeb Corliss describes his agonizing experience of time distortion. (4m 17s)

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