Pascal Wallisch

This is like man's search for meaning, basically.

But in your brain, your brain search for meaning and you attach this to everything.

Yes.

My biggest flex is that I figured out why some people see the dress, the infamous black and blue slash white and gold dress that was serviced in February of 2015.

By the way, what did you see?

Is that white and gold or black and blue?

And are you more like a night owl or more like a morning person?

But you historically are a night owl, yes?

There you go.

And so, yeah, we had a study where we showed, yes, some people legitimately see it as white and gold, some as black and blue.

What we could show is it has to do with your assumptions about lighting.

If you assume the thing was backlit or in a shadow or illuminated by white light, bright light, sunlight, it would be white and gold.

And if you assume it was artificial light or inside, then you would see it as black and blue.

And that has to do with what you have seen more of.

So if you're like a night owl, you've seen more artificial light.

By the way, just to be clear, it's not going to be true for everybody because this lifestyle is only a proxy for light exposure, but something we can measure.

So, for instance, if you hear a foreign language, at least initially, it might just sound like gibberish to you.

Like, you can't even make out individual words.

And frankly, they're not there.

If you look at the pure audio stream, there's just one word after the next.