This is interesting....I remember reading that when ships came to America...The Natives didn't see them coming until they were very close...it was because they had never seen a ship and so it didn't register in their brains what they were seeing...
Different from what you are saying....but similar too...Just like from a different view...If a person is blind at birth but later is able to regain eye site...their brains won't perceive it, because it has no reference...and so they would still be blind.
I believe that the brain acts more as a receiver...a receiver and not the originator of things..You can, however, train your brain to receive things if you can change the vibrational frequencies...which is quite common..many do it.
.OH...hard to explain..