What Your Brain Hears Vs. The Reality Of What Was Said

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This may come as a shock, but sometimes what you hear isn't actually what people say. It's not that we're hard of hearing -- it's that our weird brains ascribe fifty layers of meaning to relatively simple phrases and situations.

Honestly, it's a wonder anyone is able to communicate anything at all. Not when our brains are like ...