The Stopped Clock Illusion: Your Brain Edits What You See

The stopped clock illusion is an example of chronostasis, a type of temporal illusion that makes an initial perception seem extended in time. It's estimated that we lose about 40 minutes of each day to these visual gaps, which occur during saccades—the rapid eye movements that direct the gaze from one point to another. The brain's "erasing" of these gaps is called saccadic masking.