Why do we so easily upset ourselves? We wake up in the middle of the night and start worrying about the future, regretting the past, and asking, “What if...?” until we have made ourselves miserable.

Full of fantastical and colorful figures with distorted proportions performing impossible tasks, Becky Moon’s art, above all else, seeks to challenge and expand the ways her audience sees the world.

SANTA CRUZ, CA–For years, UC Santa Cruz psychology professor Bruce Bridgeman has taken college students to the Mystery Spot, a popular local tourist attraction, to demonstrate how the human brain ...