By studying the phenomenon of contagious yawning, the researchers learned that people’s reactions in virtual reality (VR) can be quite different from what they are in actual reality. They found that contagious yawning happens in VR, but people’s tendency to suppress yawns when they have company or feel they’re being watched don’t apply in the VR environment. Further, when people immersed in VR are aware of an actual person in the room, they do stifle their yawns. Actual reality supersedes virtual reality. (1)
Reality…
What an overrated word.
We grow up worshiping it.
But without knowing why.
What is real?
What is not?
Fundamental questions we fail to answer.
And yet we are driven by them every day.
Reality…
It is not the cosmos calling us.
It is us calling at the cosmos…
In an empty world…
The only thing we worship without knowing why.
And, because of that, the only thing worth worshiping…
Reality…
It is…
Yawn…
