Brain Games

2013 • National Geographic Channel
4.7
934 reviews
TV-PG
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Season 6 episodes (6)

1 Positive Thinking
28/6/15
Season-only
We’re going to mess with your mood to show you what really makes that glass seem half empty or half full; why people who stand tall, stand happy; and how to turn that frown upside down. So don’t worry… be happy.
2 Scams
28/6/15
Season-only
Each year, millions of people around the world fall for some sort of scam or fraud. Through a series of interactive games and experiments, you’ll discover how your brain is wired to initially believe everything it hears, what it finds most tempting in an ad or sales pitch, and how simply being human can lead you into some sticky situations.
3 Sleep
28/6/15
Season-only
The average adult spends more than 220,000 hours – or roughly 25 years – in bed sleeping. That’s one third of your life spent in slumber! But what exactly is sleep – and why do we spend so much time doing it? In what could be our most ambitious Brain Games experiment ever, we keep 3 volunteers awake for 36 hours in order to answer just that.
4 Perspective
28/6/15
Season-only
See how your brain gets tripped up by odd angles, how light and shadows play a crucial role in your perception of the world, how you can radically shift the way you see reality, and how your brain isn’t always as honest with you as you think. Through a series of games and experiments, you’ll discover why you shouldn’t always believe what you see.
5 Animals vs. Human
29/6/15
Season-only
How do our brains stack up against the brains of other species? We’ll try to find out when we pit animals against humans in a series of unique competitions.
6 Imagination
29/6/15
Season-only
We often associate imagination with creativity and the arts, but we don’t always think about how important it is to our daily lives. Play along to see how you can use your imagination to solve daily problems, how to tap into the imaginative process and how, with a little help, you can keep the good ideas flowing.

About this show

Are you ready for a truly mind-blowing television experience? Brain Games returns with twelve new episodes, each chock full of interactive games and experiments designed to mess with your mind and reveal the inner-workings of your brain. Host Jason Silva and Deception Specialist Apollo Robbins are teaming up with some of the world's foremost neuroscientists to get inside your head and show you what's going on in there.

Ratings and reviews

4.7
934 reviews
JannyPants
28 July 2014
This should be mandatory viewing in U.S. High Schools on the chance it might help stimulate thinking in our future leaders --- as we continue to drop farther scholastically in comparison to other countries. Perhaps required again, in college in some sort of critical thinking course. Frankly, I would think any country would think this kind of information educational across age and occupational lines and presented in an entertaining format. Personally, I think there are myriad applications for these episodes depending upon Nat Geo's interest level.
60 people found this review helpful
Christi Nash
17 September 2014
There must be some pretty ignorant people watching tv if they think this show is so amazing. I watched anger and food and a lot of this stuff to me is common knowledge, but then again I went to college. I guess it's good if people learn somehow. Probably best for young people, like teens or older children.
48 people found this review helpful
Max Evans
25 January 2015
Pretty amazing how some people are so full of themselves to say this show isn't good because they "went to college." The way I see it is if you don't like it, pi** off. Don't get on your high horse and act like you're better than everyone else.
44 people found this review helpful