Considering how much we depend on it, the human sense of sight is shockingly limited -- you can thwart it with nothing more than darkness, fog, or a handful of thrown sand. Thanks to technology, though, we're now able to enhance our vision to see atoms, faraway planets, and even people's thoughts . But that stuff's only the beginning. There are all sorts of previously unseen worlds which science is now opening up to us for the first time, and some of them are weird as hell.

5 New Software Reveals A Hidden Realm Of Bizarre Details

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Fun fact: Every time your heart beats, your skin flushes red with fresh blood just a tiny bit. Go ahead, take a look. If you're reading this on a bus, stare intently at the person next to you and see if you can spot the subtle, rhythmic blush. If you don't get immediately sprayed with Mace, then chances are you won't ever see a thing, because the color change is so small that it's pretty much invisible. But now, optics researchers at MIT have released an open-source program called Eulerian Video Magnification, which takes ordinary videos and magnifies those microscopic changes to show you what you're missing. The results range from merely odd to downright terrifying.

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For example, there's the fact that people are walking raves.

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But EVM works on more than colors; it picks up on subtle movements, too. As you can see in this video, even when you're sitting still, the pumping action of your heart is enough to make your head jiggle like you're sitting on an enormous speaker with the bass turned up:

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If you're trying to remain perfectly still right now to prove us wrong, don't bother. It won't work.

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And it's not just your face. When you look closely, the entire world around you is alive with imperceptible movements, from the hellish air vortexes created by candle flames ...

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... to how sound turns an ordinary wine glass into rubber.