You Are Blind 40 Minutes A Day

Your eyes jump about three times a second. During every one of those jumps
your brain shuts vision off — because the smear would be useless to you.

Add those gaps up and it comes to a rough estimate of forty minutes a day
spent blind. You never notice, because your brain fills the holes by
stretching the next image backwards in time.

Test it yourself: glance at a ticking clock. The first second looks longer.
That stretched second is the hole.

Sources:
Saccadic masking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccadic_masking
Chronostasis (the stopped-clock illusion): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronostasis
Saccades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccade

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