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Extended eye contact induces bizarre visual distortions

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If you lock eyes with another person for ten uninterrupted minutes, your visual perception will aggressively warp. Faces will morph, colors will shift, and you will likely enter an altered state of consciousness, proving human connection is basically a natural hallucinogen.

Extended eye contact induces bizarre visual distortions
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