Memory and magic- how might you view things differently now?

In my brain’s effort to provide a world that makes sense to my senses, it has decided to function in a way that fills in the gaps. This is a dance between my unconscious, my expectations, my intentions and my imagination. It makes me wonder, is my mind playing tricks on me? Or, is my mind just trying to create a more seamless perception for me? A world that makes sense is a world that feels safe and predictable. A world that falls in step with my expectations will reinforce my own beliefs thus reassuring me that who I think I am is really who I am.

When you talk about magic and memory I believe that we are talking about how we let ourselves be deceived by visual illusions because those illusions are what make cognitive sense to our minds. Its funny how we then label this illusory experience as magic, something esoteric and belonging to a non-ordinary reality when in fact it is the preservation of the ordinary that is the goal of the brain in those moments.