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The first seconds after the rapid eye movement seems more long
It is an illusion, which is called "hronostazis." Its essence lies in the fact that the first impression after a saccade (rapid eye movement) seems stretched in time. The most common example is hronostazisa experiment with analog clock with a second hand: if you look at the clock, the first move arrow seems more debt than its next move.
Regular readers Faktruma easily be able to explain this phenomenon. Aiming to create a continuous visual perception, the brain fills in the "gaps" saccades on the basis of experience. In the case of hronostazisom we can observe the "slowdown" of consciousness at a time when the necessary visual information is extracted from the brain memory and inserted into the perception of the present moment.
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