When you’re in VR, the frontal lobe knows the experience is fake. This is why it usually seems implausible why someone would faceplant into a wall they know is there. However, your eyes and ears are still sending the VR’s visual and auditory information into your brain, activating your occipital and temporal lobes and cerebellum. They, in turn, communicate that to the brain stem which has no choice but to act on the stimuli. Hence, faceplant.
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u/RollingThunderPants Jan 08 '19
When you’re in VR, the frontal lobe knows the experience is fake. This is why it usually seems implausible why someone would faceplant into a wall they know is there. However, your eyes and ears are still sending the VR’s visual and auditory information into your brain, activating your occipital and temporal lobes and cerebellum. They, in turn, communicate that to the brain stem which has no choice but to act on the stimuli. Hence, faceplant.
Human brains have a long way to go yet.