Nicola Jones reports her experience of hypnosis, during which unsuccessful attempts to make her experience paralysis and blindness are carried out (10 October, p 37). What she fails to mention is that ...

Silence might not be deafening but it’s something that literally can be heard, concludes a team of philosophers and psychologists who used auditory illusions to reveal how moments of silence distort ...

An optical illusion is a visual phenomenon where our perception of thinking about an image differs from objective reality. This image is seen as a high-contrast black-and-white optical illusion made ...