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Hypnotism is recognized around the globe as an incredible performance. Now all can learn how to do this in this series. No payments, no frills, just pure tutorial for free.
Learn How To Hypnotize Someone!
One of the most mind-boggling and major deceiving annoyances of the web originated from a small content-creation site. It may have even be a fluke, but it is a perfect example of our brain trying to fill in details incorrectly.
Face In Coffee Beans
See a hidden, incredibly detailed portrait of Abraham Lincoln in a seemingly normal painting by Salvador Dali.
The Lincoln Illusion
Memory is a complicated concept to understand, and you can become frustrated when you simply cannot remember something. Whilst most of our memory is controlled by natural processes, there are methods to encourage long-term recall of information.
Improving Your Memory
Connect related words with one central one. Commonly seen in newspapers, and now on Darren Beige!
Link Words
Computer designers have a lot to learn from the human brain about making computers energy efficient.
Brain Power!
Stare at a coloured stimulus and see what can be only likened to that of an 'eclipse'.
The Eclipse After-Image Illusion
There are many different brain training programs and applications you can buy to help your brain nowadays (eg. Brain Training). However, it is possible to stimulate your brain just through watching TV; well TV Quiz shows that is!
TV Shows can Help You Train Your Brain
A brain-stimulating, number puzzle consisting of a 3x3 grid. Popularized by the Brain Training series on Nintendo DS, causing a surge in the number of people playing Sudoku. Sudoku puzzles are now common in many newspapers.
Sudoku
A brain exercise popularized by the Nintendo DS's Brain Training series, the Stroop Test has you trying to say the colour of the word, not the word itself. An annoying yet addictive puzzle of mind over matter.
Stroop Test
MUM Can I go on the DS for a bit?. NO!, It's bad for your health! Well, new research may actually nullify that common exchange between parent and child. As revolutionary new research reveals games can be good for you. Darren Beige investigates.
Games are Good for You
A revitalized classic of lateral thinking scenario's. A murder story, or something else? A puzzle sure to get your brain cortexes pumping.
Shooting the Celebrity
A biography of the visual illusionist A Seckel, and explores how optical illusions can reveal the way the brain and mind works (or fails) with visual information.
Biography of Al Seckel
Inanimate circles move because of the brain failing to process certain key details in the image, creating the illusion. Image credited to Akiyoshi Kitaoka.
The Rotating Snake Optical Illusion