Mirror, Mirror

Your brain is a lying liar who lies

Did you know there is a spot on the back of your eyeball, where the optic nerve connects with your eye, and that spot cannot receive the information that your lens and iris are letting in?  So why don’t we have a blank spot in what we are seeing?  Well, to be honest, our brain lies to us and just makes up what it thinks should be in that space.

And that is not the only way our brain lies to us. Our brain adds information all the time. It also deletes it.  Don’t like that specific memory? For some folks (like me) their brain just loses the file so we never have to think about it again. Also please tell me I am not the only one for whom when I catch a glimpse of myself in the mirror, I’m shocked that I am not 25 anymore (and thin - I swear I am thin). Why is my mom in the mirror?  And to be fair my mental image of my mom is more my actual age, not her actual age.  She is a lot younger in my memory of her. And we won’t speak about the remembered and actual age of my children. 

Our brains are weird and complicated things that are also compulsive liars it seems.

What would happen if we had mirrors that showed us the things we don’t actually want to see? Would we remember it? Or would our brain overwrite it and show us our preferred reality?

That is the topic of this week’s comic. If you ever receive an enchanted mirror, don’t assume it’s going to show you what you want to see.  This week’s comic also has a cameo of Frank in it.  Frank has been coming to the Calgary Comic Expo for years, and I have been drawing him badly for years and putting him in my comics. (prepare to see more cameos as we go).

And tell me - have you ever caught your brain lying to you?

I’ll be adding Frank to my Red Bubble store this weekend (the week got away from me) but in the meantime feel free to grab this bonita Pioson Ivy Sticker