In a 2015 Italian psychology experiment, participants who stared into each other’s eyes for 10 uninterrupted minutes reported dissociative experiences feeling detached from time, space, and their own bodies. Some saw monsters, relatives, or their own faces morphing. The effect, called the "eyes-closed hallucination" or trance-like state, arises from neural adaptation: prolonged eye contact overloads the brain’s face-processing regions, leading to altered perception.

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