Staring at someone for 10 minutes and something weird will happen

Have you ever stared at someone? And if you try, don't be too shocked, because "monsters" will appear!

When talking, staring at the opponent seems like a bad thing.

And maybe so you have never looked directly into someone's eyes for 10 minutes and of course, you don't know what happens after that 10 minutes.

Let's find out what phenomenon will appear that we don't dare to try for the second time.

The Italian psychologist - Giovanni Caputo of Urbino University has experimented to see how the consciousness of people changes after 10 minutes looking into someone's eyes.

Continuously looking at someone's eyes will have a profound effect on their visual perception and mental state.

Group 1 consists of 20 young people divided into pairs, members of couples sitting opposite and 1m apart. The light source in the room is adjusted just enough so that volunteers can easily see the face of the opponent.

Group 2 also includes 20 volunteers sitting in a room with the same brightness but just opposite the wall. They were asked to sit and look at that wall for 10 minutes.

After 10 minutes, all volunteers will answer the questionnaire related to what they experienced during and after the experiment. The questionnaire included unusual symptoms that volunteers might encounter, what they noticed on the opponent's face or his own face.

In the Journal of Psychiatry Studies, Caputo said: "Staring into people's eyes for 10 minutes continuously has a profound effect on their visual perception and mental state."

90% of them said they had seen some facial features deformed.

This simple task makes the participants see the illusion of their monsters, relatives and even themselves on the faces of the opponent.

Christian Jarrett, one of the testers, shared with the British Psychological Association: "Group 1 volunteers said they had experiences that they had never had before.

90% of them said they saw some deformed facial features, 75% said they saw a monster, 50% said they saw their own faces ".

Caputo performed a similar experiment with 50 volunteers staring at themselves in the mirror for 10 minutes. The results showed that less than 1 minute, the volunteers began feeling hallucinations: deforming their faces, seeing their parents' faces, animal faces like cats, pigs, lions, even both bizarre and monstrous creatures.

The fading phenomenon of Troxler is likely to be related to nerve adaptation.

Caputo explained that, when looking at a point for too long, the features in it will gradually disappear, called the "fading Troxler" state.

When some visual information is missing, the brain will process and fill in the gaps based on what they expected or experienced, thus creating an illusion.

Caputo's colleague Martinez-Conde and Macknik further explained that this phenomenon is likely to be related to neurological adaptation .

That is how neurons can slow or even prevent their response to constant stimulation.

When you stare at any scene or object for a long time, your awareness will begin to fade until you blink or change the scene.