The Best Senses & Illusions Documentaries

Mind & Psychology - 33 free documentaries about senses & illusions.

Start with These Illusions Fool Almost Everyone (25 min, Veritasium), then Neuroscience Proves We Don’t See The Same Colors (59 min, Spark). All 33 documentaries here are free to watch from their makers' official uploads. To read deeper, the top-rated book on senses & illusions is An Immense World by Ed Yong.

• These Illusions Fool Almost Everyone (25 min, Veritasium)
• Neuroscience Proves We Don’t See The Same Colors | Horizon (59 min, Spark)
• The Illusion Only Some People Can See (17 min, Veritasium)
• The Science Behind Dogs' Incredible Sense Of Smell (22 min, Veritasium)
• Why You Can’t Smell Yourself (and Other Ways Your Senses Lie to You) (20 min, Be Smart)
• The Illusion of MONEY, TIME & EGO - Alan Watts (11 min, After Skool)
• Can Humans Sense Magnetic Fields? (14 min, Veritasium)
• These 9 Illusions Explain How Your Brain Creates Reality (21 min, Be Smart)
• Is the Media Altering Our Perception of Crime? | Spiraling (23 min, VICE)
• Nature’s Optical Illusion (11 min, Steve Mould)
• This new type of illusion is really hard to make (18 min, Steve Mould)
• How the portal illusion works (10 min, Steve Mould)
• Do Humans Have Senses We Don't Know About? | The UnXplained (S2, E2) (42 min, HISTORY)
• The Weird Reason Some People Can Taste Colors (13 min, Be Smart)
• The Cynical Genius Illusion - Dr. Jamil Zaki (11 min, After Skool)
• Animal's Super Senses - The Sky (26 min, Free Documentary - Nature)
• Is Gravity An Illusion? (13 min, PBS Space Time)
• Are Space and Time An Illusion? (9 min, PBS Space Time)
• Asia's Fermented Fish Delicacies That Smell Bad, Taste Good | Sour, Salty & Alive (22 min, CNA Insider)
• How Evolution Has Created Extraordinary Senses In Animals | Super Senses (52 min, Real Wild)
• A Vision of a Zoo to Preserve Wildlife | Documentaries and Reports (26 min, DW Documentary)
• Animal's Super Senses - Taste & Smell (26 min, Free Documentary - Nature)
• How to Cultivate Your Sixth Sense – The Power of Intuition (10 min, Academy of Ideas)
• Final Taste Tests: Can We Excite Customers With Our Food? | The Long Game – Part 3/4 (47 min, CNA Insider)
• How Magicians Trick Your Brain (9 min, BrainCraft)
• 3D Food Printing: A Taste Of Digitised Food | 3D Nation - Part 4/8 (23 min, CNA Insider)
• The Optical Illusion That Hijacked a Mars Mission (51 min, Spark)
• The Green Illusion (33 min, VPRO Documentary)
• Can this audio illusion control your mind? | Debunking binaural beats (14 min, BrainCraft)
• 5 Animals with a Super Sense of Touch | Animal Senses Ep102 (24 min, Love Nature)
• Field of Vision - Gatekeeper (40 min, Field of Vision)
• Field of Vision - Relatively Free (20 min, Field of Vision)
• Digital Art: a poetic vision | Toporek (35 min, Sergio Toporek)

Top-Rated Books About Senses & Illusions

1. An Immense World by Ed Yong - View on Amazon
2. A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman - View on Amazon
3. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks (4.1/5) - View on Amazon