LOL. had that one night. Cycling along a long street and 4 consecutive street lights went out as i passed them. I was completely spooked.
In my case it would be pretty unlikely for four lights to switch off in such a short time. I susspect either a practical joke or faulty wiring.
But yeah, confirmation bias is real and it messes with what you think is real.
Elliot waves are bias on steroids.
I watched a series of videos on Youtube where a guy was showing how he could turn a porch light on and off by walking underneath it. He did pretty well, although it wasn't perfect. Anyway, I timed the light and found that it turned on for 30 seconds and then off for 60 seconds every time, over and over. I guess he didn't realize that he had trained himself to walk under the light for 30 seconds and then walk away for 60 seconds.
Typical, those pesky brains fooling ourselfs...
BTW, i know all this because i produce music as a hobby.
When creating music confirmation bias becomes really, realy apparent.
I don't think there is any serious sound engineer that has not, at some point, tweaked a device, heared the change and then realized the device is not connected.
But that is just one example.
There are tons of examples, and that's just the onses concerning experiencing sound.
All our senses are routed through our predictive parts of the brain before being fed to our consiousness. We usually only experience a change to the world if the change is sufficiently unlike our prediction of how it should be.
so funny