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ELI5: How does our brain create the 'stopped clock' illusion

How does the brain remove the blurry transition and yet we still see during this period?
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You don't actually see during this period, you just think you do because your brain back-fills your memory with whatever you see when you stop your eye movement. Your brain essentially tricks you into thinking that there was one seamless immediate transition from point-to-point, when there really wasn't. So, if you change your glance to look at the second hand on a clock you might feel like it hasn't moved in more than a second, which is impossible. But really your brain just altered your memory of how long you've been looking at it. Kind of creepy, but it stops you from getting disoriented during eye movements.