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Your video reminded me of this selective attention test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG698U2Mvo. This Wikipedia article also seems to be related to the phenomenon and talks about the video too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inattentional_blindness.


Yes, this is always named in the same breath as my GP post, the gorilla video is a classic. The video I posted much the same thing. It makes you realise how much of what we perceive is really what we think we perceive




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