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Cake or no cake? That's why you can not stop watching it - Walla! health

2022-04-08T04:51:31.633Z


Everyone is talking about the "cake or no cake" program on Netflix that deceives in the perception of reality and makes the cakes look like inanimate objects. So what makes us want to see this hallucination?


Cake or no cake?

This is why it is impossible to stop watching it

In recent days, everyone has been talking about the new Netflix series that deceives our perception of reality and makes cakes look like inanimate objects, and vice versa.

So what makes us want to see this hallucination?

We checked

Dr. Liora Barzag Pro

08/04/2022

Friday, 08 April 2022, 07:09 Updated: 07:37

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Trailer for the show "Cake or No Cake?"

(Netflix)

There are quite a few hallucinatory things on our TV screen, but there is no doubt that the "Cake or No Cake" show on Netflix is ​​breaking troll records.

This reality show, as defined by our TV critic, is a post-modern TV baking competition, "and watching it is fascinating, funny and frightening at the same time."

Contestants in the program are required to bake cakes that look like junk food or everyday objects.

The cakes are placed next to real samples, and the judges are required to identify from a distance which cake is and which is not.

The peak of enjoyment of watching the show comes in the part where the facilitator tries to cut with a knife the various objects, until he reaches the cake itself.

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Strange, right?

Still, it seems that people just can not stop watching it.

And this is not the first time.

YouTube also has quite a few videos of baking hyper-realistic cakes.

Most of the videos show a mysterious hand holding a knife and cutting through some object (a roll of toilet paper, a flower pot, and even a human hand).

At first, it's hard to grasp what exactly they're trying to show us in the video, but very quickly it turns out to be a cake.

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Something in this experience evokes reluctance or discomfort among the viewer, most likely due to the impairment of perception of reality.

It's just appealing.

When psychiatrists who specialize in subjective reality researched the subject, they found that objects we see in pictures - cake, onion or shoe - produce very specific links in our brain.

Once we cut through a particular object, which our brain interprets in one way, and a cake is actually revealed, the two categories of objects simply "collide."

Because we tend to trust our brains, this collision undermines confidence.

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The deception puts our body in a state of emergency, which is exciting.

From the program "Cake or no cake" (Photo: Netflix)

Our brain works schematically - a method that simplifies information for the purpose of cataloging it.

When we get a product that does not live up to our expectations, as in the videos of the super realistic cakes, this schematicism is damaged and then a stress hormone is secreted in our body called cortisol, also known as a stress hormone.

It in turn encourages an increase in the level of glucose in the blood, helps in the breakdown of glycogen in the liver, raises blood pressure and reduces the responses of the immune system, all in order to enable the human body to deal relatively effectively with the situation in which it finds itself.

The sense of excitement that accompanies this state of emergency is what tempts us to continue watching such content.



The deceptive cake videos were preceded by other trends that demonstrated a similar illusion: the dress that some people perceived was white-gold and others black-blue, or that recording where some people could swear they heard "Laurel" and others were sure they heard "Jani."

Each such video went insanely viral, and was extensively reviewed - for exactly the same reason.

They made us doubt ourselves and our sense of reality.

Londoners disagree: is the dress blue and black or white and gold?

(Photo: Reuters, Editing: Yair Daniel)

These phenomena also make it very clear that our perception is not direct, and in a way we live “inside our head,” in the sense that our expectation, our experience, and the current situation exist each separately in what we believe to be true.

We believe in the sight of our eyes, and as proof of this we do not frequently encounter objects or get into accidents.



So why are these videos so sweeping and we keep watching them?

Perhaps it can be likened to reality shows, in which psychologists have found there is a tendency to watch situations we would not experience ourselves, or perhaps to horror movies in which mental or physical stimulation can be assumed to be negative (produces fear or anxiety) or positive (in the form of excitement and anticipation) .

Anyway something in the experience probably evokes emotions.

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